According to a PR Newswire today, the University of Maryland (UM) will be hosting a Business Plan Competition whichcould, according to University President C. D. Mote Jr., reveal the next Sergey Brin (an UM alumnus.)
Among the Finalists for the 2004 Competition to be heldon May 7 at UM is:
MindSay: with more than 20,000 members and three million Internet visits each month, this company is targeting the largest generation since the Baby Boomers (Generation Y, 60 million members) with an evolutionary, Web-based social networking product. MindSay combines blogging, instant messaging, and Friendster-style cross-networking to create a unique interface for staying in touch with friends, forming new relationships, and sharing content with all of one's social circles.
Blogging + IM + Social Networking = MindSay?
Then it also ='s Motime, and Splinder.it,and Biz Stone says it also ='s Blogger.
And, I am certain that it also equals other weblogging + services that integrate both IM and Social Networkingcomponents. A separate category on the YASNSMeta List where contenders for this category currently appear in the 'social networking plus and/or edge cases'category?
Do any of you currently utilize IM to update your weblogs? Tried it once? Use it regularly?
