Comments on: NOT just another article about social networking http://www.thetrendwatch.com/2007/08/08/not-just-another-article-about-social-networking/ A daily serving of new media strategies, marketing concepts and designs that caught our attention. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:57:46 +0100 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Ronny Stalker http://www.thetrendwatch.com/2007/08/08/not-just-another-article-about-social-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-129 Ronny Stalker Thu, 09 Aug 2007 09:56:59 +0000 http://www.thetrendwatch.com/blog/2007/08/08/not-just-another-article-about-social-networking/#comment-129 You seem to be talking as if sites like WAYN and Faceparty are are jumping on the MySpace bandwagon. A quick comparison on the Wayback machine shows that these were the sites that started off the whole "community thang". W.A.Y.N. http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.wayn.com/ F.P. http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.faceparty.com/ You seem to be talking as if sites like WAYN and Faceparty are are jumping on the MySpace bandwagon.
A quick comparison on the Wayback machine shows that these were the sites that started off the whole “community thang”.
W.A.Y.N.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.wayn.com/

F.P.

http://web.archive.org/web/*/www.faceparty.com/

]]> By: luis http://www.thetrendwatch.com/2007/08/08/not-just-another-article-about-social-networking/comment-page-1/#comment-128 luis Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:15:40 +0000 http://www.thetrendwatch.com/blog/2007/08/08/not-just-another-article-about-social-networking/#comment-128 I find it amazing to see the evolution on the Social Networking structure itself. Like any living organism, it is evolving and dividing into "races" - dating websites, music websites (LastFM), gaming related (Second Life anyone?) and even answer/question websites (aka, Yahoo! Answers). Of course, general Social Networking websites as MySpace are still ahead when it comes to audiences, but are we witnessing a shift in the users towards their corresponding niches as these websites appear and grow? We have multiple registrations by one user on various websites, but truth be told, he'll eventually end up focusing on one single one in the end. Will it be a general one or will it be a specific one? I believe the path these websites are going is similar to the rapture between TV and Internet - from a mainstream unifying universe to a fragmented audience with each particular universe. I want to do a post focused on the answer/question social website trend that I think that is growing quite rapidly. I'll start thinking about it. Nice work on synthesizing the major Social Networking websites :) I find it amazing to see the evolution on the Social Networking structure itself. Like any living organism, it is evolving and dividing into “races” – dating websites, music websites (LastFM), gaming related (Second Life anyone?) and even answer/question websites (aka, Yahoo! Answers). Of course, general Social Networking websites as MySpace are still ahead when it comes to audiences, but are we witnessing a shift in the users towards their corresponding niches as these websites appear and grow? We have multiple registrations by one user on various websites, but truth be told, he’ll eventually end up focusing on one single one in the end. Will it be a general one or will it be a specific one? I believe the path these websites are going is similar to the rapture between TV and Internet – from a mainstream unifying universe to a fragmented audience with each particular universe.

I want to do a post focused on the answer/question social website trend that I think that is growing quite rapidly. I’ll start thinking about it.

Nice work on synthesizing the major Social Networking websites :)

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