I’m in London town now - 5th time this year
NOTE to Dave Winer - Twitter is not a social network. No formal friending, just voyeuristic non-reciprocated following. No galleries or widgets and no groups - dude. Without groups it ain’t no social network. IMHO
I have to wonder - as its not clear is Mike Arrington did - how many of these 100k Ning networks: have more than 50 people in them? 150 people? How ’bout 1,500 people in them? When is a network a network?
I agree with Owen Thomas here - Yahoo is desperately in need of good managers who can ship and integrate all tehse acquisitions. I’m afraid the old guard needs to get out. So buying Zimbra makes sense - from that POV.
Lordy Lordy - RapLeaf with MerchantCircle. Hmmmmm
Windows Live ID adds Beta support for Information Cards with Windows CardSpace! Congrats to Kim and team!
Tariq calls it ‘ecosystem‘ but all it really is - is a better directory UI for choosing NetVibes widgets. Now that’s what I call optimistic marketing.
Congrats to Matt Mullenweg and the Wordpress community on version 2.3. They’re having a party!
September 23rd, 2007 at 6:05 pm
Thanks Marc - I appreciate it.
Gee I feel sorry for you having to go to London. Make sure you stay away from . And above all, avoid St. John, which would carry your “suffering” to an extreme conclusion…
September 23rd, 2007 at 8:32 pm
Ning has 100,000 Social Networks: What Does It Mean???…
Ning now has 100,000 Social Networks. If you haven’t heard of it, Ning is a service that let’s you rapidly create an entire Social Network. All you need to add is content and friends. So that means that people have created over 100,00…
September 23rd, 2007 at 11:38 pm
Twitter may not be a social network. But it is a web application with Social Network Stuff baked in.
Sorry, but I can’t agree that “Without groups it ain’t no social network.” But I can’t agree with Danah either that it’s just profiles and friending. For me Communication is vital or there’s nothing to do there (see LinkedIn) except collect names. But I don’t want to specify what type of communication is necessary whether it’s one-to-one, one-to-few, one-to-many, or few-to-few group discussions. The better and more complete YASNs have all of the above as well as some of the other combinations of One, Few, Many.
September 24th, 2007 at 3:32 am
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