The difference bewteen signing up and using a SNS
As Judith inquires - needless to say - I’m not using Huminity at all. It’s fine and dandy to have a sexy interface (as Huminity does) and even to go through the paces of connecting to your peeps (all over again - I may add) but the proof in the pudding are the ‘activities’.
What can I do with this social network besides meet people?
I mean - don’t get me wrong - there’s nothing wrong with meeting people. But once you’ve met them - you gotta have something to do - and none of these systems, have that.
Blogging is coolio, but I can do that elsewhere. MySpace has made a living of taking their mothership’s (eUniverse) modules and repurposing them. While I appluad the notion, those modules are NOT integrated together in any way - and that just sucks.
Millions of young people could be utilizing an integrated media management module, or connecting their blogs to other forms of micro-content or correlating their digital identity records to the contests and promos that are going on - and finetune/customize the experience - suited to who THEY are.
Yet none of that is going on.
MySpace is running good old fashioend dumb-ass banner ads and seems happy to do it (and throw parties.) God bless them.
And God Bless Huminity as well.
But if I was tryng to figure out how to make money in this space - I’d do something a lot more compelling them merge with yet another dating system (as the most pathetic one of them all - Friendster is negotating as we speak.)
It seems that the only biz-dev that Scott Sassa and K-P can figure out - is M&A. I guess Scott got a little tired of actually having to roll up his sleeves and think and work.
You notice this allot in the K-P CEOs. There was this guy named Straus Zelnick and a company called - what was it - Crystal Dynamics?
Anyway - here’s Judith’s post - who continues to lead the way on this area……
This morning I have a Huminity press release
in my news reader and an email from the Huminity team in my email box.The abstract in their press release states:
Huminity, a leading social network has become the first social ecosystem on the web by blending and interconnecting
free personal and group Blogs, clubs, geographical user location search to its social networking and chat client. The
new version has created a sub culture of “Google Celebrities” with an index webpage updated every day with a listing
of members’ pages that appear first in Google.So, I clicked through to the Huminity website to see what they are up to
these days and did a search for Marc Canter—knowing that if there is any constant
in the Social Software universe it is this: If you build it Marc will come… (;=We’ve had sporadic
mentions of Huminity here at The Social Software weblog for over a year now. Anyone using it right now?BTW, here’s a peek at Marc Canter’s Huminity network:
Feedster also has
about 146 mentions of Huminity today—in the extended blogosphere.
