On GoGoStat Sync, you can synchronize contacts and photos across multiple social media sites, publish status updates across sites, and sync address books with social networks and email accounts.
Meanwhile, LinkedIn is working on integrating mentions into other parts of the site, beyond status updates and home page comments.
However, LinkedIn's size should make search results fairly meaningful— according to the latest stats from LinkedIn there are more than 70 million users and the site's status updates have grown 10x in the last 12 months.
But any information users post on the site — hobbies, status updates, wall posts — is fair game for ad targeting.
Most importantly, parents have complete control over their kids' sites, from status updates to friend lists.
Alternatively, it can be used in blog or article form, as well as in short updates on social media sites like Facebook status updates or tweets with links to the larger study.
For instance, when Facebook wanted to research how visually impaired people use the site, it collected anonymized status updates, comments and other information from a sample of the 285 million people who access the site with screen readers.
One of the new tools called "Download Your Information" is designed to enable users to download everything they have ever posted to the site, such as photos, status updates and wall posts.
AOL took another step towards fully embracing the lifestream today with the release of a slew of new AIM clients in beta and a new AIM Lifestream site, which brings together status updates from your AIM buddies with your activity streams from Facebook and Twitter.
Before Twitter was even conceived, while Facebook was a mere university project, the site was a pioneer in status updates, personal profiles and photo-sharing.
The site collated information on 4.5m status updates from 3.8m users.
