communnity

Perhaps old dogs don't learn new tricks because they are closer to death, and the period to earn a positive return on that investment is shorter.

I suspect the frontier of social network strategy will draw more and more upon deep study of these adjacent and much older social capital games. Fashion, video games, religion, and society itself are some of the original Status as a Service businesses.

If you look at the respective mission statements of Twitter and Facebook—"to give everyone the power to create and share ideas and information instantly without barriers" and “to give people the power to share and make the world more open and connected”—what is striking is the assumption that these are fundamentally positive outcomes. There’s no... See more

a new Status as a Service business must devise some proof of work that depends on some actual skill to differentiate among users.

I suspected that a community can never get strong as a monolith, which has nothing to do but support the leader; the real way for it to grow is to incentivize sub-groups to form up and compete in team sports. We’re a tribal species, after all.

Did they have to turn into a panopticon, where each of us is prisoner and guard simultaneously?

Whether you believe in the 1/9/90 rule of social networks or not,