All about social networks
shit you should read if you are building or care about how social networks are evolving
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All about social networks
Few, if any, of this moment’s apparently unstoppable tech platforms will survive for long. The people on them will eventually leave—when they’re forced to do so by the continuous degradation of their experience, or because they’re forced to do so because their governments put the hammer down, as Brazil recently demonstrated—or sometimes when they j... See more
Erin Kissane • against the dark forest
Incumbents can be unseated
The Internet Transition
berjon.com
One option a company with a useful network has (whether it’s an email platform or a social network) is to curate what they feature. They’ve built an asset and that asset goes up in value when it attracts thoughtful users.
The other option is to believe that ‘open’ is the answer, the more open the better. As we learned when we launched Squidoo a deca
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on negative network effects in social networks
