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Shine is a site for the 40 million women between the ages of 25 and 54 who visit Yahoo every day. Shine is actually a blog that has some limited Yahoo functions.

The blog has ten topics Fashion + Beauty, Healthy Living, Entertainment, Parenting, Love + Sex, Work + Money, Food, At Home, Astrology and Speak Up.

And like any blog Shine get it share of comments full of spam, there where a couple of “I like it, look at this video” but apparently they deleted those comments, but it doesn’t matter some will replace those comments, but I don’t think that the women visiting Shine are interested to buy Viagra.

This year Yahoo has made many upgrades and has launched four new services, is Yahoo trying to get more money from Microsoft’s?

50 Cent has more than 1 million friends on MySpace and decided to start his own social network Thisis50.com.

Thisis50.com is build on the Ning platform, the website isn’t meant to be a fan club, but rather a platform for 50 Cent to showcase his music and the music he likes, and comment on news and user profile pages. Thisis50.com users can create profiles and friend lists, but 50 Cent has direct access to the site’s users and their e-mail addresses.

Chris “Broadway” Romero said “The thing that separates Thisis50 from MySpace is we control the e-mail database. We can e-mail members if we want to.”

Kylie Minogue, Ludacris and Pussycat Dolls have launched their own social networks. Gina Bianchini, CEO of Ning said that artist use MySpace and Facebook as funnels for their social networks.

And it’s relatively inexpensive to create a social network if artists use one of the companies that provide the tools and hosting. Artists also tend to pay for labor to run the sites, but if fans get involved and add things to the site to share with others, it can reduce the need for staff to constantly provide new content.

Kraft Foods has launched a social network promote by Mandy Moore. uPumpItUp is social network for women, where they can find the inspiration they need to complete different challenges.

The site has the four sections connect, express, inspire, and explore, where members can participate in other challenges or can create their own challenges, connect with others members, ask for help and write comments.

uPumpItUp isn’t a true social network, because it doesn’t have all the necessary features and it looks more like a forum.

Mandy Moore is one of the site experts that contributes with comments, tips and challenges. There are four other experts:

Erika Lenkert is your go-to gal for all things social.

Bobbie Thomas shares stylish ways to express your creative side.

Mandy Ingber helps you tune out distractions and tune into yourself.

Cynné Simpson shows you ways to explore the amazing world around you.

Using the uPumpItUp social network Kraft tries to promote a healthier lifestyles through Crystal Light.

Yuwie is a social network with a twist; Yuwie pays their users like myLot but between them are major differences. Both Yuwie and myLot are making money from advertising and they share the profit with their users, but the way a user earns money differs.

Yuwie users earn money from the page views they get from other Yuwie users and myLot user get paid by the number of discussion they start and by how others users rated their replies.

Yuwie is like all the other social networks, members can create personal profiles, add friends, add videos and pictures, create clubs (groups), and can create blogs on Yuwie’s blogging platform. In eleven moths Yuwie has become a “big” social network with more that 500,000 members and the privilege to get all links that go from MySpace to Yuwie blocked.

A user earns money from referrals and from impression they get from other members that view their profile, blog, comments, picture and shared layout. Also when a user views his own control panel is counted as 1 page view. The minimum payout is $5 and they send the money through PayPal or a check.

I have found something interesting if you search myLot scam and Yuwie scam you can find two websites that link to each other and they tell the story of a myLot user that got banned and when he moved to Yuwie he found the Holy Grail, I don’t know if this is a true story or just a way of promoting Yuwie, you can decide for yourself.

There are thousand of Digg Clones, and just a few have thousands of users. Some are created for small community’s that

share information and some are created by people that hope to make money.

The Benefits of Digg Clones

Every story you submit to one of this website will bring visitors from the community active members and visitors from search engines. Many times when you search something the first results are from one of this websites, this brings benefits to all the person involved. The person that comes from a search engine can get the answer he is looking more quickly, the owner of the Digg Clone gets visitor that generate money from advertising and the user that has his story on that website gets visitors that may become regular visitors that will generate again money. From a Digg Clone every one wins.

Some of the first Digg Clones have become big communities, but the members of small communities stick together, even if the website doesn’t bring many visitor, members have a certain feeling being in tight community focused on the same subject.

If you are a member of a small community, or you often visit one of this community’s leave a comment with the link and you’re impression.

Ning, is a platform where you can create your own social network, you get a combination between a blog platform, a forum and a social network that don’t have all the features.

You can upload videos or embed from YouTube and Google, upload photos or you can add them from Flickr, create blogs, discussion forums, you can add RSS, some widgets and members have customizable profiles.

When you see it first time you say that this it’s all you ever wanted, it could be but is not.  This platform has many features, but is hard to use. You need some time to learn what you can do and what you can’t, to add a widget you have to create a text box, click edit button and paste the code. You can’t customize the template in many ways, you can choose from a couple of template and edit the CSS but this is all you can do if you don’t want to become a developer.

 You can use Ning for free or use the premium version, the free version has AdSense ads on the right side, and you can still show you own ads in a text box. In the premium version you can show your own ads for $20, use you own domain name for $5, remove the “Create Your Own Social Network” button for $8 and if your social network exceeds 10GB of storage and 100GB of bandwidth, you can purchase more storage and bandwidth for $10. This premium service forces you to buy everything from them even bandwidth, and it’s pretty expensive.

You can get rid of the ads if you create a network for adult content, even if you don’t show any explicit content, the draw back is that visitors have to sign up before they can see more that your main page.

Ning allows any content on your network even adult content, the most visited network are adult networks, if you want to create one the backgrounds and headers must not contain nudity and you have to make the network private and add a splash screen. They don’t “police” the network but when you receive an email asking you to purchase more bandwidth and you didn’t use your quota and have illegal content on your network, you know what you have to do, pay or move out and backup the member’s information before they delete the account.

Ning is growing rapidly; there are networks with thousands of members but because of their “premium” service I would use my own network script on my own host. Ning is useful because they follow.