Why Pownce has Failed?
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Pownce is a free social networking and micro-blogging site started by Internet entrepreneurs Kevin Rose, Leah Culver, Daniel Burka.[2] Pownce is centered around sharing messages, files, events, and links with already-established friends. The site launched on June 27, 2007, and was opened to the public on January 22, 2008 according to Wiki. Pownce has failed, because pownce is slow. One of the slowest site on internet. This is the reason why i gave up using this service, After a lot of months, i visited my pownce page again, the funny thing is, pownce is still same. I really wonder how are all of these existing users keep using the service. It looks like, new comers make the site look fresh but the truth is, pownce is dead. It could be easily a twitter competiter. And it could be awesome when it’s integrated with Digg. But it’s late. Infact it’s late for everyone on earth who plans to start a social networking site after facebook. Standards are too high now with facebook, and the pownce technology is out of the line. Goodbye Pownce, because your speed, your technology,your design and your concept deserved it.
The social-networking strategy that took an obscure senator Barack Obama to the doors of the White House.
Joe Trippi, Howard Dean’s 2004 presidential campaign manager and Internet impresario, describes Super Tuesday II–the March 4 primaries in Texas, Ohio, Vermont, and Rhode Island–as the moment Barack Obama used social technology to decisive effect. The day’s largest hoard of delegates would be contested in Texas, where a strong showing would require exceptional discipline and voter-education efforts. In Texas, Democrats vote first at the polls and then, if they choose, again at caucuses after the polls close. The caucuses award one-third of the Democratic delegates.
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Investing and the Social Networking Life Cycle / by Kurt Cagle
Social Networks have been around since the inception of bulletin board systems in the mid 1980s, and each one of them seems, for a time at least, to be the radical new paradigm that establishes how people will interact with one another over the web. Certainly, this seems to be the case to those investors (whether individual or corporate) who pay surprisingly stiff premiums in order to be a part of the next big wave, yet in truth social networking sites have a surprisingly consistent “life-cycle” that seems to play out regardless of the “angle” that the sites have.
I’ve seen (and used) the analogy of club-hopping to describe such sites, but a better metaphor perhaps is the development of urban centers. As with urban centers, the driving factors are less “social” - who the cool people are - as it is resource based, where the resources in question are money, opportunity and signal strength (how strong is an individual’s signal in the noise of the community). Read The Rest
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