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Web 2.0: social networking... What's next please?
The famous web2.0 speeches we can all recall from a not so far past all included some keywords: social networking, input from the user, communities, and we certainly can call a few others.
Merely a year later, the user is sick of the social networks.
I predict that in less than another, they'll be screaming for useful apps again :)
I guess what happened was:
web2.0 (as the idea) was working very well with certain applications, such as Amazon, Flickr, ... and Web2.0 got created (the marketing word).
Suddenly everyone wanted to invent their perfect Web2.0 solution, and in the making, earn some money with it. (Read: make it big, sell it to Yahoo or Google)
At this point, the early adopters must have something like at least 20 logins to at least as many services. From which they probably use 2 or 3, or maybe 4. I truly believe that those they keep maintaining will last, while many others will die a silent death (or live on with few 1000 users)
Lately we got an overdose of new 'useful' applications that weren't so useful after all...
And the Twitters of this world were followed by the 'better' Pownces. Similar story with other stuff.
On top of that, the user must have the largest amount of friends possible today...
(I don't know about you, but I certainly am not looking for 'friends' in networks anymore)
Slowly people start to react: 'You are not my friend' as in 'who the heck are you?' :)
People building new internet applications should do a research not try to make YASN(YetAnotherSocialNetwork).
Actually, if it were me, I wouldn't build YASN, I would foresee plugins for the existing ones.
Nice examples I like?: MooCards for Flickr, the BBC radioplugin for Facebook, MyBlogLog for your blog.
Info that comes from the outside IN my chosen apps, or takes info from my chosen apps OUTSIDE to do something with it.
Widgets marketeers would call it. But Moocards isn't a widget, it something that is funny, witty and makes my life easier. And useful...
More of these useful apps: for Flickr
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Posted on August 6, 2007
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The funny thing about social networks is that my very best friends are not present on these sites (they have better things to do and don't have a web/online job). So at the end, social networks don't really 'work'.
Posted by Bart | August 6, 2007 10:56 AMThere are good points and bad points to registering at each website. For one my personal info isn't on a server someplace that can easily get hacked by someone else registering for a website.
BeachBum
Posted by BeachBum | August 6, 2007 1:21 PMGod bless you for this article...
Posted by promethee | August 6, 2007 10:01 PMSome that seem to have faded away have just shuffled off into their own little niche. Look at Orkut, it's basically Brasil online now.
As far as YASN, it's an age thing. Teens don't have a problem moving to the next big thing and pulling their contacts along with them. They don't have the centralised approach to communication we have, they don't even use email - that's for old people :)
Posted by Colin | August 6, 2007 11:48 PMBBC Radio Plugin does f$ck 4ll for me... so not so useful. I must admit that moo cards are kind of cute...
Posted by Mike | August 7, 2007 2:46 PM