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10.03.07Is Facebook a fad?Nate Westheimer thinks it is. Both “fad” and “the rage” imply a temporariness — I know. And while I think Facebook is a great social networking site, which I will use for the time-being... ... Try this idea/illustration on for size: Let’s say Facebook vanishes into thin air tomorrow. How quickly do you think our inherent social graphs would take to reconstitute themselves somewhere else on the Internet? I’d say a week. In a week, I’d build up my languishing MySpace, Friendster, and Virb profiles and wait and see where the rest of my friends headed to. Ask yourself how quickly Facebook replaced AIM and ...
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08.11.07There is room for more social networksThe takeaway from Reid Hoffman's recent interview about LinkedIn: there is room for niche players in the social networking space despite the headline grabbing businesses. The nauseating comparisons to Facebook continued, but he defends social networks -- such as his professionally-targeted site -- as tools each with their strengthens and markets. Om's fourth Hitline is that there are too many social networks and they are all looking the same, BUT they need to break out and do one thing well in agreement with Reid's message. The money quote: ... at the end of the day, the only social network that ...
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07.07.07Apple and their obsession with being closedI have always enjoyed Fred Wilson's musings on technology. From my understanding, he and I seem to agree quite often on issues that I read through his blog. I am surprised to hear that he is just now seeing the danger in Apple's model of a proprietary software-hardware model. I am particularly concerned that I'll have to use iTunes to synch music and photos instead of being able to drag and drop. This post explains there is no way to get music and photos onto the iPhone without using iTunes. I've got way more than 8 gigs of music on my ...
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06.25.07Social networks and the military’s hidden classismI just finished reading a great article on a supposed class difference between MySpace and Facebook users. There is nothing you shouldn't be able to spot between the lines but a good read nonetheless. One thing I found interesting is her conservative take on the U.S. military's ban of MySpace. A month ago, the military banned MySpace but not Facebook. This was a very interesting move because there's a division, even in the military. Soldiers are on MySpace; officers are on Facebook. Facebook is extremely popular in the military, but it's not the SNS of choice for 18-year old soldiers, a ...
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06.23.07Is noise Facebook’s next growing pain?Bill Erickson has an interesting take on the effects of Facebook applications on the site's userbase. A change has happened at Facebook and not many have noticed it. As the VC's and entrepreneurs have become more connected to facebook, the average user (a college student) has become more disconnected. Facebook as a replacement for TV? It was that 2 years ago, it isn't any more. As a college student and an entrepreneur (like everyone else in the world, I have a facebook app being released next week) I've seen the change happen. Last year, whenever we - and by we, I mean ...
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06.23.07Sony’s Minisodes on MySpace a good ideaThere is an op-ed piece on NPR entitled Old TV Is New Again, and Shorter discussing Sony's release of so-called minisodes. These TV classics, such as Who's the Boss?, Charlie's Angles, and The Facts of Life, will be trimmed to run 3-5 minutes, hence the name. Sony plans to distribute through MySpace, hopefully latching onto their viral userbase and targeting a broad audience, the younger of whom have likely never seen these shows. NPR's commentator on the piece, Andrew Wallenstein, thinks the idea destroys the integrity of the original shows, killing character development, removing plot, etc... His idea: ...
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