Monday, August 23. 2010Epitaph: To a failed Social Media PlatformComments
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Buzz may be dead and I well remember @scoble's launch into FriendFeed as the 'only' way forward about 18 months ago.
However, there are still some dedicated users of certain services who persist because they continue to see utility in the service. I saw a tweet last week asking "who uses delicious nowadays?". Well the answer is ME! It does it for me. i'd agree that quitting Friendfeed is probably overdue on my personal account and that Scribd continually signs up my FB friends to a service with no content in it (nothing..) without permission. But for now, blogs continue, RSS and Feedblitz works perfectly for my way of working. Sic semper.
I think tools like Delicios which don't need active social networking can carry on being useful, it's the ones whose entire "reason to be" is the messaging between people that end with whimpers.
Is Paul Carr important? People online talk about him as though he was Christine Bleakley, or someone of equal stature. Personally, I cannot see the point of people whose contribution to the web is telling people what other people will and won't do on the web. It's a bit like watching a sports programme and finding that the studio commentators want to discuss the stadium instead of the game.
Gordon, No Paul Carr is not important - but he's generated a HUGE following based on a twisted, witty view of the techn world. The typical "Englishman Abroad".
He IS funny, he IS self-centered, he does continue to court controversy (Yanks love that) and when I have a spare moment and want a laugh I DO read his Techcrunch columns. I don't see him as a serious news journalist. There is a place in the web ecosystem for Paul Carr; and you and me. But no, he's not important. PS will provoke by tweeting this.
@ Gordon @Rebecca I think he is quite influential, in the same way court jesters are often more influential than you think.
To my mind he is in that "multiple anecdotes do a trend make" ie he is one of many wannabe geek-leaders who have been wrong footed by where the market is going and are now (all) noisily trying to charge back to the head pf a crowd that is heading in a certain direction already. For the record, this blog has just kept on keeping on for all teh years that blogging was The Wrong Thing - and now that Twitter is The Wrong Thing I shall redouble my use of it ![]() I never liked Facebook. |
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