'At Davos this year, a powerful newspaper publisher beseeched Mark Zuckerberg... for advice on how he could build and own his community. The famously laconic Zuckerberg replied “You can’t.'''
Why am I using these services nearly every hour of my waking life? Because they are being talked about and I want to learn what is making people so passionate...trying to figure out what they are good for and whether the hype is justified. In my opinion:
"So let me leave this as a challenge to Technorati, Feedburner, TechMeme and anyone else trying to tie together the loose threads of the blogosphere - how do we Facebookize the open web?..."
"With tonight's release, you can now enable members of your social network to add videos, music, podcasts, and photo slideshows - branded and linked back to your network on Ning - to Facebook with one-click."
"Facebook will become a defacto identity manager amongst the general internet population, unless some big names adopt OpenID as standard it will struggle to compete with the massive userbase that Facebook will build."