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In the last several years we’ve seen the rise and fall of many social web applications. While most of our attention gets paid to the hugely successful ones like YouTube and Facebook, we can also learn a lot from those that have failed.
- Tosh - Jun 05 2007 | social software
Seems like an obvious thing.
Quoted: Think of the most successful social sites out there. They usually focus on a single thing. YouTube (video), Netflix (movies), eBay (auctions), MySpace (friends), Flickr (photos), Del.icio.us (bookmarks) and most of the social features on those sites are aimed at making that one activity better.
- mohit - Jun 05 2007 | software, design, toread, social software
redotting eric (http://bluedot.us/users/eric)
Quoted: In the last several years we’ve seen the rise and fall of many social web applications. While most of our attention gets paid to the hugely successful ones like YouTube and Facebook, we can also learn a lot from those that have failed. Here are some of the common pitfalls that lead to failure when building social web applications.
- eric - Jun 05 2007 | design, software, development, startup
Awesome. I recognize problem #1 and #3. It's not about addressable markets. I still think that is BS and fails more often than it works. It's about building something useful for someone you know.
Quoted: Social Web Design by Joshua Porter
- rishtal - Jun 06 2007
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"In addition, a comparison to other sites in this way is a bad idea, because they’ve already beat you"
"Think of the most successful social sites out there. They usually focus on a single thing. YouTube (video), Netflix (movies), eBay (auctions), MySpace (friends), Flickr (photos), Del.icio.us (bookmarks) and most of the social features on those sites are aimed at making that one activity better"
Template for appologizing (if you screw over your customers) http://www.perfectapology.com/how-to-say-im-sorry.html
that's funny...they have templates for apologizing? sorry not a computer nerd, so didn't know :)