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Social Networking's Next Phase
- akkartik 20y agoExtending Zawinski's law [1] to the web: Every website expands until it becomes a social network. Websites that cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zawinski's_Law_of_Software_Envelopment
- pg 20y agoGoogle search is pretty big. Is it a social network?
- akkartik 20y agoZawinski's law didn't really apply to windows either. But it's a good question. Both edges of the feedback loop between search and social network are interesting: a) Social networks where we have to manually link to friends will not last. b) Google's integrating search with notebooks, groups, hosting, email and IM. Perhaps those are primitives for a social network rather than an OS. c) Making search more relevant using a social network is perhaps still a valid approach, in spite of the lack of success so far.
- herdrick 20y agoThe story of search is not finished.