As a follow-up to last week’s post about reputation-based filtering, there’s a entire book (and blog) on the subject of building reputation-based systems, including the pitfalls, best-practices, and more. Social networks have the benefit of built-in reputation: If someone’s a friend, there’s implicit trust. If they are a friend of a friend (in the LinkedIn [...]
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21Apr10
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As millions of social network developers discovered last week when Ning pulled the plug on free networks, building a company around a single company’s free service has its risks. If the company goes under, scraps its free service, or changes the rules of the game, you’re, well, Ninged. So while I’m a big fan of [...]
15Apr10
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Just heard from Charlotte Genevier at SocialEngine that they are offering a $50 discount, good until the end of the month, to any displaced Ning customers looking to move to their platform. The discount code is “ningmigrate” She also tells me they are looking into building a Ning importer as soon as possible. I expect [...]
15Apr10
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Ning has just announced it will be shifting its focus and resources exclusively to paid networks, leaving millions of free social networks in the lurch. “We will phase out our free service. Existing free networks will have the opportunity to either convert to paying for premium services, or transition off of Ning,” new CEO Jason [...]
15Apr10
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Jeff Jarvis (via Ad Sales Blog) shares a great anecdote that makes a crucial point about creating social networking sites: …a powerful newspaper publisher beseeched Mark Zuckerberg, the young founder of the hugely successful social network Facebook, for advice on how he could build and own his community. The famously laconic Zuckerberg replied “You can’t.” [...]
13Apr10
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Interesting piece from The Nieman Journalism Lab on Gawker’s success in curating comments to improve the quality of discussion on their sites. In essence, Gawker’s “class system” means unknown commenters get stuck behind a “show all discussions” link few users will click. What most readers will see are only the musings of trusted commenters and [...]
13Apr10
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According to a report released in April 2009 by The Nielsen Company, “Becoming a mother is a dramatic inflection point and drives women to the Web in search of advice and a desire to connect with others in their shoes.” Does this mean a social networking site for mothers is the way to go? I’d [...]
11Apr10
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Passions may seem like an obvious source when you’re looking for the focus of your social network but my definition of a niche social network goes further than that: A group of people passionate about a shared experience, situation, goal, or pastime, but who don’t have an existing venue to easily connect with one another. [...] |
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