And Then There Was The Graph
Quoting Sir Tim Berners-Lee:
The Net links computers, the Web links documents. Now, people are making another mental move. There is realization now, “It’s not the documents, it is the things they are about which are important”.
Sir Tim expands the idea of the social graph – the links between people – with the idea of the semantic web and comes up with the idea of links between objects – or things (Not, as Mathew Ingram understands, just people and their relationships). He calls this the Giant Global Graph, GGG or just the graph.
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Platform Wars Are Upon Us
The Season of Social Network Platforms is apparently here. All the major and smaller social networks are opening up their services. I believe the winners are not the social networks themselves, who will be forced to open their users’ social graphs, and thus their competitive advantage, but now smaller widget-like services that tap into the users’ social graphs across several, if not almost all, social networking sites.
The season for social network platforms is now, but the fight is just starting.
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