Recently I visited my old account at Hi5 and was extremely surprised at the changes.
1) Much cleaner layout
2) and a lot of good looking applications (minus the Facebook Application Spam) with familiar faces from Rock You etc etc.
I guess the Google Social API seems to be working. Which leads me to ponder , since most people prefer to visit atmost 2-3 social networks , and will soon have the ability to port material across social networks,
could there be a new wave of IPO’s and mergers and acquisitions in Social Networks to capture and consolidate audiences.
Much will depend upon Google itself (as it tries to lift the whole internet advertising industry all alone with a potential Yahoo deal) or the Return of the Sith from Redmond who could buy , bully and bludgeon their way into the new web 2.0 especially with Rich Internet Applications (like Silverlight from Microsoft coming) and Google facing anti trust scrutiny for a change.
Watch this space! Till then play Triumph on either My Space or FaceBook
DECISION STATS 