This topic couldn't get much bigger or more "now". If the Internet was ever like the Wild West, this is Dodge City where lawlessness and the law-abiding are being forced to drink at the same table. The question is do you hide from the phenomenon and ignore its nagging call or hitch on your Web 2.0 six-shooter and stride confidently out into the game?
Whatever you do here you need to be armed with a rock-solid strategy and a willingness to embrace anything good or bad that might be thrown your way.
Apart from a solid strategy supported by a good concept, method of communicating it and a receptive audience (which many people seem to over look) you will need the appropriate software. This comes in all shapes and sizes from online chat software to forums and message boards, behavioural tracking software and networking tools.
Click on the "Top 10 2.0 websites" link below and you will see some very familiar names. Consider two points. In the UK 5.2m of us, spent almost 13million hours on Facebook in July 2007. Meanwhile, a mere 230,000 spent 1.1m hours on Habbo - that's an average of 4 hrs 35 minutes per visit! Two facts that should speak for themselves.
See also: Blogs & blogging
Social Networking: Other Info & Links
Top 10 2.0 websites - July 2007