Interesting stats coming out of Leadership Network. The Internet can connect the world. But we won't be listening to each other.
Evidently, our social networks are split depending upon our geographical location. Check the graph...
So while USA is hugely Facebook and MySpace (ugh, MySpace...) those networks are not majority holders anywhere else globally...
Theoretically, it's the Tower of Babel all over again. We've got access to communicate with each other, yet nobody is speaking the same language.
Honestly, isn't it time the Social Networks go open source? Develop a standard of communication so I don't have to do a Facebook, and MySpace, and FaceSpace, and MyBook... or whatever else they come out with in the next couple years...
The Internet's strength is that it enables the world to communicate. Hope the corporate sector will play along too...
What would be the motivation for these networks to go open source? Unless this can be monetized in some fashion there is no way that MySpace or Facebook would allow there users data to be released from their tight clutches without a ton of cash in their pocket. Just try to get your data out of Facebook or try to close your account. Almost impossible. We're just going to have to deal with this for a while.
Posted by: Jorriss | 2008.04.14 at 08:39 PM
You're right, of course... but that doesn't make it right...
Posted by: Jeff Reed | 2008.04.14 at 09:27 PM