Social Networks 3.0
I was just reading David Hornik (Venture Blog) post entitled Social Networks 3.0 . He made some interesting observations:
“I am more than a little excited about Social Networks 3.0 because I believe that social networking will be a crucial element of virtually all online consumer experiences going forward. And truly compelling online consumer experiences will always make successful companies. Thus, I look forward to seeing how social networking continues to evolve. I see great things in the future for Social Networking 4.0, whatever that ends up being.”
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I’ve noticed that there are several social sites out there that I’m signed up for, but really don’t use (myspace , linkedin , orkut, yahoo360 ). I’m sure a lot of other people do the same thing? As a matter of fact Myspace is the only one that I use somewhat frequently, and I wouldn’t really call 2-3 times a month frequently. I do think that Social Networks are a great way to stay connected with friends and possibly “hook-up” with new friends. But, I would like to find one Social Network that kind of mixes Flickr , Yahoo360 , YouTube and SuprGlu together. Most importantly I would like for that Social Network to have a way for me to have a “friends-space” and a “family-space”. This way, you could keep your friends and family updated with your life but not have to subject your family to the MySpace type “smut”. What do you think? Is that something you would be interested in also?
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Boy am I glad I stumbled on this post.
I just launched Peoplefeeds last week (http://peoplefeeds.com/) and if you’re familiar with SuprGlu already, you shouldn’t have trouble grokking Peoplefeeds.
In many respects, they are rather similar. But in some key ways, they are different. Like SuprGlu, Peoplefeeds allows you to piece together your online persona in one place. Unlike SuprGlu, Peoplefeeds imports your _entire_ tagspace from all your sources, in whichever way it can gather it (this includes parsing your entries for Technorati tags, automagically converting your blog categories to tags, parsing our Flickr tags, and del.icio.us tags). Unlike SuprGlu, _everything_ is exportable via RSS, including only a subset of all your content, or a category of your content _matching a particular tag_.
In addition, whatever is in RSS, is also addable to your watchlist. So what this means is that your work buddy can add to his watchlist, for example:
- AllYourStuff matching tag “marketing”
- AllYourStuff matching tag “research”
Your girlfriend (or equivalent) can add:
- AllYourStuff matching tag “fun”
- AllYourStuff matching tag “restaurants”
etc.
You can give your mom a direct link to AllYourStuff matching tag “family”.
What makes things particularly easy is that your watchlist is basically just an interface to an OPML file. From your watchlist, simply download the OPML file and import it into say Newsgator and you’ll automatically have a “Peoplefeeds” sub-directory with sub-folders for each person on your watchlist along with each category and tag you’re subscribed to.
Easy way to keep track with only what’s relevant from all the stuff other people generate.
Sorry for the run-off comment. Let me know if this helps you in any way or if you would like to see something specific added or improved in PF.
Regards,
Bosko.
Nice post! A little while ago I was thinking about Social Networks and wrote my thought down. I never placed a post on my blog but a comment about this post will do. I called it “Missed Opportunities”:
People call it networking nowadays to extend your contacts. And in this time of virtual social networks like orkut, multiply, myspace, hi5, ringo, linkedup, and so on.
I still miss something. Once you join a social network it’s easy to build a list of 100’s heck 1000’s of contacts. But do we really get to know these people?
Do we use these contacts for a usefull purpose? What’s the value of that social network? In real life you meet real people but the step to seek contact is in most of the cases null. Just because it’s real life and real contacts. How many times didn’t you see someone who seemed interesting to talk to at an exposition, at a trainstation, in the supermarket or just at another level at work?
But you just could not or just dared not step towards that person and say hi for a start. So building a real network does not seem so easy. If only we could reflect the same feelings we have when we see some one online and send a message towards a person we see in real life, life would be much easier and I am sure a lot of problems in the world would get solved. Or businesses would do better just because the contact is more easy?
so a conclusion:
networking results in social communication results in understanding results in solutions. (nice huh)