Comments on: Social networks go niche http://mbites.com/2007/06/25/social_networks_go_niche/ Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:49:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: jamescoops http://mbites.com/2007/06/25/social_networks_go_niche/comment-page-/#comment-1582 jamescoops Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://dev.mbites.com/?p=89#comment-1582 I still think they'll be<br />I still think they'll be space for niche communities (as opposed to niche social networks). There's already a million and one forums online which focus on specialist interest and user groups, with no open ID, yet they survive and thrive. Most of the new wave of niche communities havent even begun to experiment with different social value propositions yet. Wait until we start getting the "Digg for Football news" rather than a "myspace for football fans" and things might start to look very different? I still think they’ll be
I still think they’ll be space for niche communities (as opposed to niche social networks). There’s already a million and one forums online which focus on specialist interest and user groups, with no open ID, yet they survive and thrive. Most of the new wave of niche communities havent even begun to experiment with different social value propositions yet. Wait until we start getting the “Digg for Football news” rather than a “myspace for football fans” and things might start to look very different?

]]> By: Andrew J Scott http://mbites.com/2007/06/25/social_networks_go_niche/comment-page-/#comment-1583 Andrew J Scott Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://dev.mbites.com/?p=89#comment-1583 I agree you're likely to see<br />I agree you're likely to see both niche and big. The fact is that a larger percentage than anyone wants to admit, still use cosial networking primarily for perving at others pix and flirting. Why do you think the "poke" function in Facebook has both survived and spawned multiple enhanced "poke" version with options such as "kiss" "spank" and others I cant mention! What is more interesting is whether Facebook will survive the 2 to 3 year cycle that the major social-network brands seem to go in; I have some personal views on the mobile sector for example, which will be rooting for a new brand to be the 'big' social network on mobile, not the by-then old guard of designed-for-online social networks. I agree you’re likely to see
I agree you’re likely to see both niche and big. The fact is that a larger percentage than anyone wants to admit, still use cosial networking primarily for perving at others pix and flirting. Why do you think the “poke” function in Facebook has both survived and spawned multiple enhanced “poke” version with options such as “kiss” “spank” and others I cant mention!

What is more interesting is whether Facebook will survive the 2 to 3 year cycle that the major social-network brands seem to go in; I have some personal views on the mobile sector for example, which will be rooting for a new brand to be the ‘big’ social network on mobile, not the by-then old guard of designed-for-online social networks.

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