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The Next Social Network: WordPress
- bmaier 19y agoThe next social network is Tumblr. Its the best combination of blogging, twittering, and networking out there.
- brlewis 19y agoI think the point of the article was that people want to have control of their own decentralized sites rather than use someone's centralized site.
- sanj 19y agoI agree with your synopsis, but I disagree with the premise. Any writer knows that there is nothing more terrifying than the blank page. In social networks, it is the empty friends list. All of that 'pseudo-user-generated' data that is pooh-poohed gives a new myspace page a warm and fuzzy feeling that is would be missing from a "build-it-yourself" network. It reminds of Joel Spolsky's take on Jakob Neilsen: "Every time I read Jakob Nielsen," I wrote in 2000, "I get this feeling that he really doesn't appreciate that usability is not the most important thing on earth. Sure, usability is important (I wrote a whole book about it). But it is simply not everyone's number one priority, nor should it be. You get the feeling that if Mr. Nielsen designed a singles bar, it would be well lit, clean, with giant menus printed in Arial 14 point, and you'd never have to wait to get a drink. But nobody would go there; they would all be at Coyote Ugly Saloon pouring beer on each other."
- shayan 19y agohttp://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/12/social-blogging.html http://avc.blogs.com/a_vc/2007/12/social-blogging.html