Given Google’s pending acquisition of Social Shopping site Groupon, now is as good a time as any to take a look at the history of social media:
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December 2nd, 2010 at 12:54 pm
BR,
“…Social Shopping site Group…”
“Groupon”
http://search.yippy.com/search?input-form=clusty-simple&v%3Asources=webplus&v%3Aproject=clusty&query=Google+Groupon+buy-out
December 2nd, 2010 at 3:21 pm
Damn spell check
I’ll fix above.
December 2nd, 2010 at 3:56 pm
There have been several social networks. As far as business go, they have not lasted long. When people value Facebook at 20B to 50B, why do they think Facebook will even last, let along be worth that much. Facebook is starting to monetize your personal information through personalized ads and then leverage that across the web. Personally, I equate it to China. Fools with money see lots of people and think profit. As if the people running AOL, Second Life, Six Degrees, and MySpace are idiots… why are Zuckerberg and co. any smarter?
December 2nd, 2010 at 11:50 pm
@dsimmons . It’s almost safe to say that Facebook dominates the internet at this point. They MAY not be there forever, but I think it is because of its leverage of everyone and everything that it will remain alive. These companies (at least AOL, MySpace and Facebook) are certainly not idiots. MySpace may not be a top social network any longer, but it has its own share in what is going on. AOL is still a major e-mail service with news and a stake in other things. Facebook has connected itself to many things as well.
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December 4th, 2010 at 1:24 am
[...] Another long piece on the change in the US Postal Service (& communications in general) over the years and how the dropping of the public service mandate in posts and radio have changed the media landscape there. There are lessons for everyone across the globe too of course. In this context this giant graphic of social media over time is itself worth a peek (via Barry Ritholtz). [...]