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Gus
November 22, 2006 at 7:12am
On the topic of growth, I read a couple interesting articles addressing an actual decline in numbers and usage.

Wall Street Journal article “MySpace, ByeSpace?” - October 26, 2006
Washington Post article “In Teens’ World, MySpace Is So Last Year.” October 29, 2006

These articles do not announce the demise of Social Networks, but they do, in my humble opinion, support the concept that networks need to offer more reality to its members. For example, when I joined MySpace, I used it to some degree at the beginning, but soon I felt as if I had maxed out my potential on it. I realized that for me, it was not much more than social email and a way for me to reconnect with old friends. (Fred Stutzman calls it the “’What’s next?’ moment.”) I need more than an online Homecoming event.

Here’s another great blog about Mark Pincus’ perspective about “What’s Next for Social Networking?” My take-away from that article was this quote, “I think the functions of social networking will become more *owed* by communities and end users and less controlled by large media services as their interests are not well aligned.”

MyChurch is paving the way for “what’s next” by tying my purpose to a real offline community and by giving its members tools to build upon existing relationships. That may seem like a semantics game, but it is a huge difference.

March on MyChurch!


Links:
WSJ article - http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116182858175204222-rsuEZvu7OIyZ_x8jW_mVavMsZ8g_20061124.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top
Washington Post - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/28/AR2006102800803.html
Fred Stutzman - http://chimprawk.blogspot.com/
Mark Pincus - http://markpincus.typepad.com/bio/
Mark’s Blog - http://markpincus.typepad.com/markpincus/2006/04/whats_next_for_.html
voice_in_dc
March 26, 2007 at 4:50pm
I like the Verhulst equation best. It can be applied to anything and it follows a more "traditional" route of new product penetration. The only uncertainty is the actual coefficients.  I tend to argue that there is no saturated market...just bored developers with a lack of innovation.  Sure the market may be reaching saturation as it is defined today, but give us three months and something new comes into the market which makes the old market...well, old.  When a new innovation gets added to an existing market I would expect a similar curve that is, hopefully, as steep and once it starts to level off, the development team has yet another innovation.
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