That’s one of the implications of this look at the state of online social media from The Economist. Comparing Microsoft’s acquisition of Hotmail years ago, and AOL’s recent purchase of Bebo, they write:
Both deals, in their respective decades, illustrate a great paradox of the internet in that the premise underlying them is precisely half [...]
Since I mentioned “lifestreaming” this week (aggregating various social media that you use into one eary to follow form) I thought I’d point out this article from ReadWriteWeb that lists 35 (!) different services that offer some sort of solution for this.
I’ve tried a few of them and have found them to have some good [...]
Yesterday I wrote about the social media application space - the myriad services that are appearing to give users ways to communicate and share content. As I looked over these sites, one thing kept bothering me, and it’s something that I think is a fundamental question for users and developers alike: how does the overall [...]
The other day I was catching up on social applications - that is to say, sorting through the list of all the social media apps I haven’t had time to check out. Like anybody, much of my social use is driven by what I like and what fits into my overall work and personal communication [...]