by admin on April 11, 2010
I have to say that I’m very impressed at the efforts of Ning to build a community of network creators. Over the past year, the company seems to have done an about face from moving toward a centralized, Facebook style site to a truly decentralized, creator-driven technology model.
Most Ning sites seem to center around hobbies, music, or pop-stars. I’ve always seem Ning as an incredible technology for gathering niche professional communities and industries together… What do you think is the future of niche networks for professionals? Do you see them overtaking general social networking sites for business use? If I had to pick a future, I would actually opt for the proliferation of highly specialized (but well connected) sites that cater to very specific audiences.
by admin on April 11, 2010
I work with a lot of social networking and social media sites, so my aggravations may perhaps be exacerbated by constant poking… but I have to say that I am sick to death of fake blog posts for SEO. Disclaimer, I’ve written them myself in the past and I’m sure I will in the future. But it seems more and more that almost ALL posts are for SEO. It seems like almost all blogs use an overly exacting rationing of links. Every link has a self-serving purpose and now the text itself is being shaped by the crowd sourced mathematics of the consumer web.
Where is it going to stop? Because it seems like the regular-consumer inputs on the web are increasingly relegated to no-follow walled gardens like Facebook… while the real thing (your own blog/content/domain) is still out of reach for most people. There have been little efforts to hand the real web to real people in a simple fashion. The pros are dominating the web and pushing out incredible loads of content, all of which is constructed methodically to influence the directionality of future web searches.
Chalk this up to a grumpy community-manager having a grumpy night. But I feel like a lot of attention is paid to email and comment spam and not to actual content spam. Let’s just say that the lint trap of the web may be getting full - and this can lead to fire.
