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I foresee Google being replaced by something else. As a search engine Google has been stagnant for a while. I still cannot black- or whitelist websites that I want or don't want to show up in my results. Really, I want to control what I see!!! When another search engine gives me the flexibility to control my results, I'll jump ship. But currently even with annoying results that I don't want to ever see again, google'…
When AOL first entered the market, you could only send E-Mail to other AOL users. Eventually, faced with the potential of users leaving their platform for more interoperable (if less full-featured) alternatives, AOL relented and made their email system a proper, standards-based utility. Now, granted that scenario is not a great example as email existed as a standard long before AOL came into existence, but I do think…
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Microsoft completely dominating the PC software industry for nearly 30 years, reaping insane profits for that entire time. In some ways they still do dominate it, certainly in terms of productivity software and business email. Similarly, IBM was computers for 30 years. Comparing them to simply the most popular social website for the past 10 years is not really fair. The fact that Facebooks value approaches those othe…
is ibm big iron still not computers right now?>
The next wave of social networks will most likely be decentralized. At the moment the concept is not yet clear, so no company to follow yet.
I mentioned in another comment the idea of a blockchain based system.
Relying on blockchain technology is needed only when everyone should trust on something, but once you have the peer to peer connection this is no longer needed.
LinkedIn is clearly the worst of these three. Please let an ethical competitor kill them ...
I think the consensus is that Twitterr is already dying, fast. They lack direction and a way to engage with new users. Facebook won't go down as long as Zuckerberg cares. Beating their core product is pretty impossible, and he's made smart acquisitions of products that young people are favoring over the core product. Now they're taking over in video ... LinkedIn is clearly the worst of these three. Please let an ethi…
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> If you think about it, the only thing that RSS/Atom was ever missing from becoming what Facebook/Twitter are today is a central aggregation point in the cloud. A smart startup [...] could potentially spell the death of proprietary timelines. I've got the feeling you underestimate how important this central aggregation point actually is. Imho I'd even say it's the paramount reason Facebook/Twitter are still the top…
When you can follow and interact with your friends/fans through a neutral aggregator regardless of what network they're on, what does it matter where most people are?
Reddit is making a lot of policy changes to bring in more users.
They might end up with more users, but I've noticed that the content on Reddit is consistently declining in quality. Kind of worrying to me. Smaller subreddits might be enough to save the site though.