I think the main hurdle to creating a successful social network is thinking of these networks as websites or web applications. The real networks exist offline and the web apps are a way of organising or augmenting those relationships. At first I thought that the success of a network depended on how much it acted as [...]
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Twitter and keeping in touch
August 1st, 2008 · No Comments · social apps
I was challenged to try twitter for two weeks. It’s taken me around 24 hours to love it. It’s like the bodysnatchers. One thing I happened to read a few days ago was someone proclaiming how sad it was that we needed these shallow social apps to keep in touch. Why don’t we just pick [...]
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