Here come the MetaSocNets?
4 responses to “Here come the MetaSocNets?”
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I think mobile will be the platform to watch for social web aggregators. I read somewhere that accessing social networking sites (Facebook in particular) on mobiles has risen dramatically in the last year now that people are relying on social sites to organise their lives and true web enabled handsets are proliferating.
Along with this I think you can expect to see a new wave of mobile ads interspersed with the Facebook updates and Twitter messages.
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Good point, Matt – I’ve yet to see the iPhone app that will help you pull together all the Social Networks… but i epxect there are some out there / on the way…
Mobile ads are a tricky business, but there will be a way…
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Good thought re mobile.
The other thought I had, after writing my MetaSocNet post, was that there is a strong similarity between this and the attempts by AOL etc to wall its discussion groups in as the Internet emerged – didn’t work.
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Open is great but Facebook is a business and they have the right to protect their assets which include their users. And a big part of their success is the security and privacy they provide users. If they allow a meta-net to access that info they effectively marginalize their ability to generate revenues. After all if I’m an advertiser and I can go to one source or an aggregation of many sources where am I going to spend my money? Obviously with the aggregator.
We monitor social media but we do not collect private sources. In order to do so we would have to ask people to compromise their logins, something we believe strongly is a very bad idea.
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