Owen: I'm using Facebook and Linkedin for many purposes. Cleary, social networks are the future for many reasons. Trade, relationships, causes, etc. Facebook is currently the fastest growing public social network, and Myspace is the largest by far. Linkedin is mostly for business and is trying to compete with the others. Social networking is becoming the key for Internet traffic growth in advertising, your causes or to create your social site.
They all allow 3rd party widgets, but you need to stay on the site. This creates a specialized third party application. Maybe with a little database. They are wonderful because they bring people with "like" minds together. If you think of eBay, people trade without knowing each other and their biz model is beginning to show rust. It is slowing down. Social network trade will probably take over. In fact, this FRIAM group should be operating in a social network and these threads would be preserved for future readers. If this is interest in this, I'll build one. Mike -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Owen Densmore Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 10:02 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: [FRIAM] Facebook? iPhone? OK, I've been bumping into facebook a bunch lately .. can anyone tell me why its wonderful? Anyone using it? My interest is that the iPhone world is happy with it's new iPhone version. Apparently lots of web 2.0 sites are rushing to provide an iPhone version. Makes sense 'cause the iPhone does not support 3rd party apps, and encourages developers to create web-centric applications instead: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/ -- Owen ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
