Comments on: In The Future, Everyone Is A Social Network

By: Some random links at Virtual Generations

Some random links at Virtual Generations — Mon, 07 May 2007 20:19:47 +0000

[...] In The Future, Everyone Is A Social Network [...]

By: Justin Kistner

Justin Kistner — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 15:38:39 +0000

Great post, Scrivs. I think 9rules is an excellent example of the way social networks form in a decentralized way. 9rules began as a blog aggregator, then grew to a selected membership community, then demand for participation gave birth to a forum, which generated curiosity about the other participating members and that warranted a more in-depth profile. What I like about 9rules profiles is the way they mash 9rules content with other communities content. I can easily see this moving to a standardized platform for a global, social profile with hooks into various sites. I would love to have a single public profile that could be integrated uniquely with sites I participate in that have communities.

By: David Airey :: Creative Design ::

David Airey :: Creative Design :: — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 16:51:37 +0000

I agree to an extent, and also with Jeff.

There are only so many cups of tea you can drink in a day, and I visit many more sites than I drink cups.

Interesting post.

By: Sunday Morning Goodness - 1 April 2007 at SuccessCREEations by Chris Cree

Sunday Morning Goodness - 1 April 2007 at SuccessCREEations by Chris Cree — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 12:43:40 +0000

[...] Over at Wisdump, Scrives points out that In The Future, Everyone Is A Social Network. Remember, the internet is full of people and we want to interact with other people. [...]

By: engtech

engtech — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 23:08:47 +0000

Imagine RSS, OMPL and OpenID connected?

Your social network is the people who read your site and the people whose sites you read.

You would need some mechanism of claiming any RSS feed as belonging to you, and letting it look at your OMPL to see who your friends are.

By: Jeff Brown

Jeff Brown — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:04:32 +0000

I agree altogether with you, however, I disagree that every site will be a social community. I think that there will be 5 or 6 really popular social networks and each persons site will be a subset of that. Offering insight to specialized topics, very similar to the 9rules, however imagine if there were several 9rules types.

Just as you mentioned that blog publishing tools are extremely popular I think community publishing tools will be becomign much more popular over the next year like drupal or pligg.