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Friday, May 16, 2008

The Promise and Peril of Ubiquitous Community

Steve Rubel

Over the last five years I have been asked countless times: “Steve, what’s the next hot online community?” It seems as though everybody is on the lookout for the successor to MySpace, Twitter or Facebook. Nobody, even in a difficult economic climate, wants to be viewed as a latecomer.

Perhaps as a defense mechanism to avoid being wrong myself, I now give a boilerplate answer that I believe can last. In short, the next big community is not a single destination. Rather, it is going to be everywhere. To paraphrase Forrester analyst Charlene Li, social networking is becoming “like air.”

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Wednesday, January 9, 2008

The ‘Open’ Social Graph on the Horizon

Charlene Li

The DataPortability Workgroup announced Tuesday that Google, Plaxo–and the big surprise–Facebook will be participating in discussions on how users can “access their friends and media across all the applications, social-networking sites and widgets that implement the design into their systems.” This couldn’t have come at a more perfect time, especially given the flap over Robert Scoble scraping Facebook.

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