Comments on: Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter: Where’s the competition gone? http://www.onlinesocialmedia.net/20100726/facebook-linkedin-and-twitter-wheres-the-competition-gone/ News Today Wed, 16 May 2012 23:19:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: wecandobiz http://www.onlinesocialmedia.net/20100726/facebook-linkedin-and-twitter-wheres-the-competition-gone/comment-page-1/#comment-2046 wecandobiz Tue, 27 Jul 2010 07:24:51 +0000 http://www.onlinesocialmedia.net/?p=2553#comment-2046 As I said on Charles's blog, the whole web is becoming a Social Web where commenting, collaboration and sharing is expected across all websites, this one included. It helps that we can sign in to do this using identities we have on the mainstream social networks and that our comments get posted back to them. The emphasis is becoming less on what we do on those networks and what those networks enable us to do across the rest of the Social Web. Facebook has done a great job of making our accounts on that site portable. As has Twitter to easily tweet our comments or location back to our followers. The weak link is LinkedIn, which was last to add share buttons, share idenity sign in widgets for other sites and all the other bells and whistles which are becoming important and which Facebook and Twitter have had for a long time. As all websites will be social the discussion as to whether any social network will match Facebook in scale is less relevant than who will dominate the market for a service you can use to sign in to the Social Web and aggregate all the activity from your contacts across that Social Web. So far, Facebook is streets ahead merely from the fact that it saw the way things would go and has been there providing solutions to website owners and consumers from the start. Ian Hendry <a href="http://twitter.com/TheIanHendry" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/TheIanHendry</a> As I said on Charles's blog, the whole web is becoming a Social Web where commenting, collaboration and sharing is expected across all websites, this one included. It helps that we can sign in to do this using identities we have on the mainstream social networks and that our comments get posted back to them. The emphasis is becoming less on what we do on those networks and what those networks enable us to do across the rest of the Social Web.

Facebook has done a great job of making our accounts on that site portable. As has Twitter to easily tweet our comments or location back to our followers. The weak link is LinkedIn, which was last to add share buttons, share idenity sign in widgets for other sites and all the other bells and whistles which are becoming important and which Facebook and Twitter have had for a long time.

As all websites will be social the discussion as to whether any social network will match Facebook in scale is less relevant than who will dominate the market for a service you can use to sign in to the Social Web and aggregate all the activity from your contacts across that Social Web. So far, Facebook is streets ahead merely from the fact that it saw the way things would go and has been there providing solutions to website owners and consumers from the start.

Ian Hendry http://twitter.com/TheIanHendry

]]> By: asimahm http://www.onlinesocialmedia.net/20100726/facebook-linkedin-and-twitter-wheres-the-competition-gone/comment-page-1/#comment-2037 asimahm Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:19:02 +0000 http://www.onlinesocialmedia.net/?p=2553#comment-2037 I think anything is possible. I mean look at Apple Computers for example, they were once at the top of their game back in the late 80's and beginning of the 90's but than Bill Gates Windows became the new personal computer and computer software powerhouse. Apple didn't rise again until the new millennium, and now they are dominating the technology market once again. All due thanks to a new product and a revolutionary idea that has changed the game which was the iPod. Now Facebook took out MySpace, and MySpace use to be the social media powerhouse. I think it's possible for a new social media platform to become the new Facebook, or the new social media powerhouse as long as it brings out something revolutionary. I think anything is possible. I mean look at Apple Computers for example, they were once at the top of their game back in the late 80's and beginning of the 90's but than Bill Gates Windows became the new personal computer and computer software powerhouse. Apple didn't rise again until the new millennium, and now they are dominating the technology market once again. All due thanks to a new product and a revolutionary idea that has changed the game which was the iPod. Now Facebook took out MySpace, and MySpace use to be the social media powerhouse. I think it's possible for a new social media platform to become the new Facebook, or the new social media powerhouse as long as it brings out something revolutionary.

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