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Two forces are at work here, then: the immediate utility of a social service pre-populated with people you know, combined with the habitual behaviors associated with checking your email throughout the day. A stream of fresh content from people you care about, served up on a site you visit every...

Photobucket, meanwhile, became one of the world's largest photo sites by providing photo hosting to MySpace users; MySpace parent Fox Interactive Media (now News Corp. Digital Media) acquired the service in 2007. There are arguably better video sites than YouTube and better photo hosts than...

The story of social networks is in fact a story about network effects: How can a service reach a point at which there are enough users and content to be useful? YouTube achieved this trick by providing embedded videos for MySpace and blogs, siphoning off members along the way. MySpace...

Good technology has value, but leading social networks require "network effects." Facebook is infinitely more valuable because all your friends are on it. Facebook has leveraged this "critical mass" of users to stay ahead of new rivals, too. Why visit Twitter, you may ask, when Facebook has...

There isn't a great deal of innovation here; early adopters will remember FriendFeed, an identical service acquired by Facebook last year. While FriendFeed built a strong technology platform with an advanced search engine, it failed to achieve significant mainstream success. The site's features...

oogle Buzz, Google's new social networking service announced this week, isn't particularly original. Just like Facebook and Twitter, it lets you share links, updates and media with friends. Even so, it'll probably be a moderate success. Google Buzz is perhaps the most generic "social sharing"...

Many users attacked the company for violating their privacy. Mr Jackson said: "We quickly realised that we didn't get everything quite right. “We’re very sorry for the concern we’ve caused and have been working hard ever since to improve things based on your feedback.” Buzz will now only...

"Google is a big clunky Microsoft-like company with strategy taxes, and they don't trust the web or developers, or each other, and their internal politics drive most of the decisions they make. To compete with Twitter is an easy sell inside Google, but to actually have the will to be cut-throat...

I agree that this is probably one of the best "features" added to gmail. However at the same time it also presents a huge concern to many. Beside the privacy issues which have already been beaten to death. What about employers who fire their employees for using Facebook at work? I can't...

I don't get your concern. Go look at my Google Profile and tell me what scary information is revealed there that isn't revealed on any other social networking service. Who I'm following? You can see that on Twitter. Who's following me? Ditto. What I'm posting? I've told it what to share. I get...

First, this wasn't truly "opt-in," as Google's many subsequent rapid changes to their service make clear. Second, it's WAY WAY WAY too tied to e-mail. E-mail is fundamentally a medium for private communication. It makes little sense to tie a social networking service so tightly to e-mail...

I'd like to be able to just log into 'Google', and see everything I have for all my services. Like a summary of how many emails I have, or waves I need to read, or responses to youtube videos, or altered documents in Docs. Or Google to use their existing services for their other services. Like...

So if a friend of someone is convinced to sign up to Google for Calendar, they will be able to use Wave as well instantly for instance. Giving each new product a instant marketshare boost. And making each new product increase the market share of Google's other services. For Google, it's really...