Comments on: Commentary: What’s Next in Social Networking?

By: sherryscary

sherryscary — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:04:14 +0000

I think the “virtual world” sites are gonna hit it big in social networking. But most people are afraid of it because they think its “weird” or it will make them “uncool”. But those kinds of websites have never been in the spotlight. But I think its pretty cool once you get embarrassment aside. So if it gets a bigger crowd the excitement over those websites are gonna take those kinds of websites straight to the top. Or maybe strictly blogging sites will take over.

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By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:58:14 +0000

Hi Josh! Yeah, Social Network Fatigue is probably just the first presentable symptoms of a total whole-body seizure.

It’s just impossible to have a meaningful presence everywhere, so I try to concentrate on just those social venues that have the right kind of people I’d like to be around.

It’s not so much the traffic a venue gets, or whether it’s the most cool. Like all social circles, it’s the people that count…

By: Josh Miller

Josh Miller — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:38:23 +0000

@Sid – I think you’re talking about the move to make Google apps Coroporate … just think of gmail and google talk integration….

@Wayne – Social Network Fatigue? Isn’t this just the beginning?!

By: Wayne Smallman

Wayne Smallman — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:58:44 +0000

Hi Sid! I’ve been writing about the direction of Social Networking quite a bit myself recently.

I think I’ve identified a new illness: Social Networking Fatigue. The damn thing is everywhere, like a rash!

But seriously, if there’s to be more Social Networks, we need someone to get a grip of the personal profile side of things.

I used OpenID as a possible standard bearer, but it could be someone else.

Additionally, what if StumbleUpon or Facebook merged with Second Life?

By: Sid Yadav

Sid Yadav — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:16:08 +0000

Josh,
You mention one of the points I forgot to mention in the post (the fact that Facebook, and others, incorporate versions of private note messaging), and I think this very thing answers your argument about private communication.

It’s almost hard to believe that we’re still making use of something invented 30 years ago in terribly busy business environments. Instead of advancing it, we’ve come across workarounds. We make folders. We label things. We colour-code. We group together. And all for what? As an alternative, I’ll ask you this — how cool would it be if a business ran on its own super enterprise social network? An internal private messaging system which replaces e-mail, corporate hierarchy’s, groups and communities within the business, an event planner, wikis, IM client which integrates, so many things!

I think this is a place where a lot of innovation is left to be done. This doesn’t mean the death of e-mail, however, which I think will always exist in some way, shape or form, but infact, if someone can figure out a way to combine those together they’ll have a lot of opportunity to take over the business communication market (a web-based e-mail client which doubles as a super social network with IM client, perhaps?)

Sid

By: Josh Miller

Josh Miller — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 02:57:09 +0000

“but the main point of e-mail is to connect people.”

Sid — I disagree, I think the main point is to communicate. And usually that communication is private. Though, Twitter (super short blog posting) and Instant Messaging do come close to getting rid of email, I don’t see email dying out. Even the social applications like Facebook incorporate multiple versions of private note passing.

Josh

By: nick

nick — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:31:20 +0000

full integration with users mobiles so they text messages will be a thing of the past.

voip over the ‘mobile web’ through facebook too.