Panel with meebo, friendster, netvibes, beebo and is moderated by mashery.
Tomorrow netvibes launches their new social network called ginger. They also use uwa (univeral widgit application).
Why are there so many platforms and do we need them all? There is not alot of overlap between the different platforms. Check out the la monde graph that shows the popularity of the different social networks. Social networking is still new and there is now winner yet. The problem I see is that all these platforms are saying they are open but then they have their own custom features and api sets. I get the feeling that a lot of the openness in these companies is all talk. We will support open social, “some day”.
The platforms all seem to be promoting this idea that they want to build a “social ecosystem”. This means that they understand that for them to succeed they need both a good experience for the users and a good experience for the developers. Including a way to monetize the traffic of the developers. This is great for app developers like me. They also know that apps that do bad things hurt the platform and all apps in general.
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