Tag archive for ‘Social network service’
Affluence.org – Vanity sells for big bucks
Affluence.org has been proclaimed ‘Facebook for rich people’. Every niche demographic seem to have their own social network and Affluence.org has been designed for rich people who like to talk to rich people… exclusively. It aims to bring ‘the members-only country club‘ mentality to the web but whilst this may sound like a good business [...]
Remember Old-School Social Networking?
Remember FriendsReunited? Back in 2000 the UK spin-off of ‘Classmates.com’ in many ways laid the foundation of today’s biggest sites. It had a business model, a growth rate to rival that of Twitter and even made a profit of £22 million in 2007 – something Facebook and MySpace are still struggling to do. So what [...]
Site Review of the Week
Following on from last week’s theme (but hopefully a little less negative and more constructive). This week is TIOTI.com (tape it off the Internet). The company is a UK based startup and tries to be a more comprehensive wikipedia for TV shows, but with a social networking layer. It started out life with a good [...]
Future Homogenisation of Social Networking — Updated 25th Feb
Social networking is a business dominated by trends. There was Bebo, MySpace and now there is Facebook. As Facebook becomes more and more mainstream (as I write it is ranks as the 8th most visited site in the world and its growth is outstripping MySpace ) people are already beginning to wonder what the next [...]