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FACEBOOK IS A DATA ROACH MOTEL
by Emmanuel Verhagen on 10/08/2007 (6 comments)
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Social Networking
Internet
Innovation
Facebook
Ning
MySpace
Your data goes in, but it rarely leaves. At least according to Robert Scobble. It made me think about what the real value is of social networks. What are they actually doing and where do they go wrong? I have to admit: any social network I join asks me the same questions over and over again. Usually it ends up being an endless list of boring stuff. Meaning: self-evident. For me.
SOCIAL NETWORKING
by Emmanuel Verhagen on 12/05/2007
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Social Networking
Nielsen/NetRatings has issued a study showing that the top 10 social networking sites saw traffic grow 47% over the last year, with MySpace (367% increase) and MSN Spaces (286%) seeing the biggest growth. And these are only the internal growth figures. What about the number of social networking sites available today? The offering appears to be growing exponentially as well (though no hard data is to be found, yet).
WEBLIN: THIRD LIFE?
by Emmanuel Verhagen on 05/05/2007
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Mixed Reality
Social Networking
Why bother with the complexities of Second Life? After all before getting proficient at using the SL environment there is a steep learning curve to tackle (most likely the reason why the average life of an avatar is below 3 months, or so they say). And why go to a different platform if all you need can be right on your desktop?
SECOND LIFE
by Emmanuel Verhagen on 04/05/2007
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Mixed Reality
Social Networking
Second Life
Here we go again: Second Life as "the" phenomenon of our times... The strange thing is that the concept as such is more mature than we often realize and it seems that they're the ones attracting the attention and finally breaking open "the market" for this way of thinking. (who remembers ...)