Nickname: Haylet

Review: Great article! I personally see there being a big market for social networking in a corporate environment. Social networking services are definitely going to be big within the business community. Corporate social platforms are useful for many reasons and will dramatically enhance internal and external communications between staff and customers. Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, wikis, forums, video blogs ans RSS create an interactive and social environment and should increase staff productivity which in turn will drive sales. A more engaged workforce will ultimately produce better results in which employees should also get a stronger sense of a brands ideologies and increase brand allegiance. Given these facts corporations should seriously consider shifting communications towards social platforms. http://www.brandstation.tv/

Date reviewed: Jul 10, 2008 1:32 PM

Nickname: ncl209

Review: I think sites like Virtual Path and www.octopuscity.com are a great fit for people looking to move further into online communities for sales, networking, and other important social business functions.

Date reviewed: Jul 3, 2008 7:39 PM

Nickname: bizconnector

Review: Interesting article. I personally like www.yourbizconnection.com, where it's for users and for entities such as businesses, associations, non-profits and the like. Unlike LinkedIn, you can see your connections' pictures and organize them under specific categories that you create. They also allow users to upload a video introduction and use communications tools such as podcast, internal email and blogs....check it out!

Date reviewed: Jun 19, 2007 8:29 PM

Nickname: socean

Review: Visible path went from 0 to one million users in four weeks. I'd say odds are good they are doing something right.

Date reviewed: Jun 1, 2007 8:22 AM

Nickname: Cesar

Review: I like facebook.com for college, mytripz.com, for like travel sharing, and myspace.com for friends.

Date reviewed: Jan 16, 2007 7:10 AM

Nickname: Matt

Review: Hi, I own and operate my own social network targeting home based, small business and professionals doing stuff on the side. I have 1000's of customers paying to use the service and 100'000's using it free. The technology was developed from scratch and we are working on releasing two major new enhancments. I have a great deal of knowledge on what works and what does not and how to build and market a social network. I funded the company myself and own the company. I have not taken any investment capital but might be looking at trying to find the right business group to help expand the company. Also, I see some vertical markets that could be had, and our technology is already fully in place. If anyone reading has ideas or is interested in doing business send me an e-mail to my Yahoo mail, you can browse my site at www.directmatches.com.

Date reviewed: Jun 7, 2006 1:20 AM

Nickname: S4

Review: I don't know how companies like Visible Path are able to convince VCs to cough up millions when they have no real customers.

Date reviewed: Apr 20, 2006 6:05 PM

Nickname: Bill

Review: These guys do sound similar to Spoke.com. They both raised and burned through lots of money, achieving poor customer traction. Check out BranchIt Corporation or Interface Software. These two have had customer successes in the corporate market.

Date reviewed: Apr 20, 2006 6:21 AM

Nickname: Wired

Review: I can't imagine business people agreeing to let a big brother system track their calls and e-mails so that others can discover their best vendors and contacts. There are far better ways to achieve 90% of the benefits of references and referrals. Business networks like LinkedIn and reputation systems like iKarma.com offer a far more natural way to make contacts and connect with others.

Date reviewed: Apr 20, 2006 4:09 AM

Nickname: B

Review: I am very disappointed by these kinds of articles published by Business Week. Generally they seem to be incomplete, the writes lacks the knowledge of technology and research. Sometimes it even looks like FUD provided by some "tech guru." Last year Business Week did an article on how Java language is dying. The "guru" who said that was trying to sell something. If anyone at BW reads these comments and takes them seriously I cancelled my magazine subscription due to articles like these and subscribed to The Economist.

Date reviewed: Apr 19, 2006 1:34 PM