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Google Is Making It Harder To Be The Small Fish
"I struggle with that question. Most days I believe that there are no competitors. Facebook will always be ... well, Facebook. Twitter will be Twitter, and Google will own search, which means they own everything so long as they don't measure success by their ability to BE "something" (i.e., G+ is a HUGE success even if it isn't a destination). Even Apple hasn't been able to create a community, and their people are you know ... the way Apple people are. So the question is what market advantage Yahoo!, Microsoft, or anyone else could have to create a real success. I admire what Yahoo! is trying to do and they're making minor inroads, but looking at the big picture I'm seeing the M.M. era thus far as an overall bust. I mean, they couldn't even make anything out of Tumblr. And Microsoft seems to be trying pretty much the same tactics (acquire a group of stuff and then figure out how to leverage it). I don't know what break-out Yahoo! could possibly have up its sleeve. Microsoft, by virtue of their OS and Desktop software strength, COULD do something, but it doesn't look good, does it? But with all of that said: IMHO the era of broad-stroke social networking will end in a few more years; meaningful segmentation is far more practical in the long term (think Doximity). I've believed that for a few years, and it seems to me that (for example) 4Square BREAKING UP their app is proof that I've had the right idea. Even Evernote is segmenting, by design. Dropbox, too. So ... sure, there are still challengers on the horizon, but barring major changes in their approach it probably won't be Yahoo! or Bing."Google Is Making It Harder To Be The Small Fish
"Doximity is a social network (insert joke here ... an UNsocial network) specifically and exclusively (for real; proof required) for Medical Doctors. There's a valid REASON for those folks to seek out and connect with each other, and in their eye ... likely others, too ... a reason to do so away from the hoi polloi: "Why in the world do I want to waste my time listening to the rants of people who are different (inferior to) me?" That may sound terrible, but it's the way most people think; community isn't about being part of a mob, it's about being part of YOUR mob. Or "Tribe", as Lord Godin would say. I think about my Facebook feed and cringe at how much ranting runs by. I look at my Twitter feed and am thankful that I choose to follow so few people. Twitter is unfiltered and therefore overwhelming by nature. Facebook is filtered, but the algorithm isn't very good. So now circle back to the G+ question: it's ALL about filtering, and whether you enforced the filters yourself by how you manage your circles and groups or GOOG enforces it for you by ... not caring what you do or even if you spend time "THERE" but arranging, buying and selling your data in ever-more-granular ways, it's ... BETTER. And better matters, more and more. So ... Yahoo! ? Not so much."You'll Never Guess Who REALLY Owns This Microphone
"Interesting SOUND ! Ha! Martin I din't know compfight, but I've played with it now. It actually seems less effective than just plugging a search term into Google images, because on a two-word search the results were OR related, rather than AND related. Have you had better results?"Subscribe
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Google Is Making It Harder To Be The Small Fish
"Martin: First, you're a less small guy than most; you already have that many and then some ... right? Second: sure, that's the solution to this specific problem, but this problem isn't the issue so much as a much larger one: GOOG is leaning more and more toward favoring larger and larger entities—whether by design or by accident of evolution So ... umm ... I've pointed out a problem without offering a solution, which in general is something I consider a no-no. OTOH: this stuff is getting so complicated and granular it might be necessary to point out problems this way so people can make end-run plans."