MySpace. The year 2007 was the worst year for MySpace. Media rave, honors, and criticism were received by Facebook. Everyone kind of forget that MySpace has almost 3 times more visitors than Facebook (57 million unique visitors in November vs. 22 million Facebook visitors). In December, on the USA Today pages were announced that MySpace will renovate design and features. Email, weather, news, easy photo and video share are products which developers promise their visitors in upcoming year.

FaceBook. Army of people who use Facebook almost doubled in 2007. Now it is not just a network for college students and campus activities, Facebook became a mega network where you can find even people who are older than 70. In the year 2008 we should see if Facebook will finally jump over the ocean and become popular in other countries (like MySpace) or it will stay as US network.

SpicyPage. Social network for bloggers, webmasters, and regular people to share links and information. It seems to me that webmasters mistreated SpicyPage because in the beginning they were refusing to provide direct link for submitted news. SicyPage used to give their own URLs to every submitted link redirecting visitors only after click, recently all redirecting codes were removed and now SpicyPage work the same way like Digg, Reddit, or Mixx.

Zimbio. News social site which was created by developers who took the best ideas from Digg, Technorati, Newsvine, MyBlogLog. Zimbio is a network which accepts all types of information from registered members. User can simply write a story, share news link, submit RSS feed, bookmark site, ping a blog, submit video, upload picture, create a poll… all this information could be rated my other members and the most popular / picked by community content appear on homepage and category pages.

LinkedIn. Network for business dealings, over 5 million people who are looking for business partners or wishing to find clients created profiles in 2007. Company expects to reach 10 million users in 2008 and become #1 online business network.

ClipMarks. I wrote before about this social network in the article Clipmarks is Another Proof How Far Web 2.0 went. Unique way to bookmark pages is making this site different from regular social bookmarking networks like Digg or Mixx. Clipmarks seems for many users too smart and geeky, next year will show us if general user are ready to accept this way to save information.

9Rules. Another clone of Newsvine and Zimbio which look like a next big thing in social news industry. Web developers spend most of their time to create unique design and newest user interface. 9Rules design can satisfy esthetes.

Unique US Visitors in November 2007

Source: USA Today