Here's the Techcrunch version of the Bear Stearns Yahoo! presentation.

Quoted: There is a bit of buzz around the presentation Bear Stearns Internet analyst Robert Peck gave a couple of days ago. It recommends ...

Quoted: Bear Stearns Internet analyst Robert Peck today wrote a lengthy piece which contends Yahoo (YHOO) urgently needs to figure out a social networking strategy, or risk being marginalized in some of their businesses. He thinks Yahoo is going to have to buy or partner with one of the primary players. Peck says that Yahoo has held talks at various times with Facebook, Bebo, Friendster and MySpace, but that when it comes down to it, we think the price tag is the ultimate factor for a transaction to materialize. Isn't it always. Peck goes on to to build a financial model ...

Bear Stearns' presentation saying Yahoo should get into the social networking space.

Some good market theories in here.

Quoted: “What Should Yahoo! Do Regarding Social Networks?". yahoo facebook

Is the future a Unified Social Network (USN)?

Their user studies and personas may be helpful for those of you who can't afford to do your own studies but are in the same space. (Yay, free research to look at for next-gen social networks! )

Via Techcrunch. See their post with video demo here: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/08/google-yahoo-both-working-on-next-generation-social-networks/

Socialstream is a system where users can seamlessly share, view, and respond to many types of social content across multiple networks. It is the result of a rigorous user-centered design process that involved formal research and evaluation with over 35 participants and weekly critiques from clients and colleagues.

Project is Google-sponsored... Hmmm.....

Sharing many features with Socialstream, Streamy (currently in private beta) also aims to be an intelligent, user-centered customized news service. Streamy has less of the social networking bit.

Some common themes:
You have a status that your friends see (like Facebook, Twitter, Socialstream, and many IM programs).
Your Contacts list is on every page.
Read/view/share/comment on any item on the same page.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/10/streamy-a-new-digg-im-netvibes-customized-news-thingy/
Video also at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhAGmpocTLA

LibraryThing is a larger, geekier version of Shelfari.

Quoted: Enter what you're reading or your whole library—it's an easy, library-quality catalog. LibraryThing also connects you with people who read the same things.

I love books, and would love more useful recommendations by taste than what a retailer like Amazon offers, but I'm too lazy to enter in all my books just to show them off.

Plus, my 100 year old 'antiquarian' books don't have ISBN codes.

Anyone used Shelfari? How about LibraryThing, their competitor out of SF? In a quick, superficial evaluation, I've determined that Shelfari has much nicer UI design than LibraryThing, but that LT has a much larger, and nerdier, user base. Despite the alure of both services, I'm still not convinced. It's too much work.

Quoted: Shelfari makes it easy to see what your friends are reading, what others with similar tastes have enjoyed, and even get and give book recommendations.

Putting the Fun in Functional - applying game mechanics to functional software. By Shufflebrain/Amy Jo Kim.

All about Mixd Mixd is about going out. Coordinate last-minute meetups, share pictures and videos from your phone, and remember last night on a website we create for you, automatically. How? Mixd is group texting and photo & video sharing. No downloads or