Posts Tagged ‘Niche Social Network’

So a week has passed and even Freud wouldn’t be able to dig out where you’ve repressed your New Year’s Resolution to “get fit.”  Every time your pesky, insistent mind points out that you are ignoring your own promise to work out once a day you casually take the thought and store it in a hidden cavern of your cortex.  So what can you do to actually get yourself to stick to a daily schedule?  Well, the geniuses at Fitocracy thought about it, and likely wondered how people — no matter what the situation — find a few hours a day to play Farmville, why is it they can’t get themselves to work out?

And with that, they may have struck gold.  They created the fitocracy social game, and let me tell you from personal experience —  with challenges, badges, experience points and level ups, fitocracy makes working out a lot of fun.

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There are so many small, niche social networks out there – for the college student, for the music lover, for the new mom – that it’s difficult to see how any of them can stand up to Facebook, the reigning king of social networks. However, maybe monthly active users is not the only metric we should be using to measure the success of a new social network. Instead, it’s possible that niche social networks will find their staying power in their offline call to action. As they cover many fewer topics than Facebook and other general social networks, the sites on this list are able to focus their networks on taking certain actions. Here are five niche social networks that mobilize their user base to do something, learn something, and be part of something in the real world.
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In Hong Kong there is barely enough space to add to the skyscraper skyline, let alone find room for burial grounds and memorials. Some perspective on just how crowded Hong Kong is: its Mongkok shopping district is the most densely populated place on earth, with the Guinness Book of World Record estimating 338,189 people per square mile (New York City’s population density is 26,403 per square mile). In a country this crowded, the government has opted for an innovative way to allow its citizens to mourn their loved ones – on a social network.
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In light of the privacy concerns and expanding user base on Facebook, niche sites have been stealing some of the spotlight from the reigning social network giant. VEOMED is one of the latest attempts to bring together a community outside of Facebook. Targeting the medical community, VEOMED appears to have found success in mixing features of Facebook, Twitter and Youtube to create a balanced network that enables members to have scientific dialog across a variety of multimedia formats. It’s possible that this is the formula that will fragment the currently heterogeneous social groupings currently populating Facebook.
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