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facebook
Are three of my favourites
We only have a MySpace page becaue we have developed a couple of band websites before.
Jamie
...but I would place my bets on facebook as far as being the Microsoft of the era
Yahoo should buy them now... People think that they can just design a better interface and people will come. The next interface will be for better Video conversation. Till that comes along "facebook" is king. MySpace has really lost the war... it's amazing that they are moving so slow on this. and "Linkedin" could of been a contender... but is going to become the "WordPerfect" of the generation... everyone says it's better till it's too late because they just weren't. It is going to suck when "facebook" starts censoring everyone.... I look forward to the next generation. We already have a winner. I would love it if "facebook" loses that lawsuit that those Harvard kids are waging. The ideal thing for the industry would be if "facebook" technology went open source... this would keep the feminist sex police from turning free thought into yesterdays news.
I also like Flickr a lot. Although I feel that the community itself is more geared towards people who are into photography. Delicious... I find that saving each article there is much more time consuming than on Digg.
Noah:
It would be interesting to see who buys Facebook eventually.
Any particular reason why you're not into social networks? I'd be interested to hear.
I appreciate the all good social networks can do if you're not a blogger.. but I feel that having 100% control of the way I present myself to the world is much better.
You can still have the same control on the social networks, displaying only the information that you wish to.
I completely understand what you say about blogging. I also feel that what I have gained from blogging definitely exceeded any expectations I initially had. However blogging is only one of the many ways today to express yourself and gain contacts.
And there is the blogging community itself (which is a kind of social network).
http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/dotmad/archi...
LinkedIn
Why LinkedIn and not Facebook?
Because its more professionally oriented - serves as an online resume and oriented to connect you with other professionalls\job opportunities etc.
Facebook offers adding photos and notes but I have my blog and Flickr for that.
I'm still waiting for a Flickr-YouTube-Facebook fusion kind of site where I could store both my photos and videos (and maybe other stuff - notes\documents\etc too)
I read your post.
I wasn’t surprised by your response. I have just heard that many people left LinkedIn for Facebook. I myself have not. I actually wrote a post entitled Facebook Vs. LinkedIn:
http://www.blonde2dot0.com/blog/2007/07/19/face...
where I discuss a few things that LinkedIn does better than Facebook. I think that professionals see LinkedIn as a far better channel to find potential business partners and employees. It may not be as exciting as Facebook, but it accomplishes its purpose.
Eran:
I love Flickr too, but as I said to Terinea above, I feel that is more geared towards people who are really into photography. I like to have the ability to add videos, text, applications, etc. and other ways to interact with people.
Regarding LinkedIn, I agree that it is more professionally oriented than Facebook. Yet I have made some professional connections through Facebook as well.
I am still waiting for the Flickr-YouTube-Facebook fusion site also. One site where you could social network and store all your photos/videos, etc. Hmmmm…startup?
I guess best of bread social networks will get there anyway...