Building your own Social Network

Wednesday, August 15. 2007

Building your own Social Network

Why would anyone do this, I hear you ask? Well, take one look at the IP rules in Facebook, not to mention its "black hole" messaging properties and you begin to see why.

There are two useful articles on TechCrunch on the various options available today, an initial review of 9 commercial platforms and the yesterday a review of 34 more. To these I would add Phuser, a UK play.

(Great blog posts by Phuser's George Black about the travails of competing with Facebook over here - and here - mind you, he has had some top class advice now

Posted by Alan Patrick in Social Networks at 11:44 | Comments (0) | Trackback (1)

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Now Danah Boyd's also said it.......
...maybe the kids will take notice. Danah Boyd called it about right on Facebook. She raises the same issues we have been raising over the last few months. I am utterly confused by the ways in which the tech industry fetishizes Facebook. There's no dou

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