tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641429817507217988.post1516725738235592907..comments2008-05-09T12:37:37.572-04:00Hank Williamsnoreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641429817507217988.post-33345762046149259092008-05-09T12:37:00.000-04:002008-05-09T12:37:00.000-04:00Tell us how you really feel!<BR/><BR/>nice rant.<BR/><BR/><BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://theasiandatingsite.com" REL="nofollow">Free Asian dating</A>Asian loverhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07220158995043161528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641429817507217988.post-36288474807190576612008-05-08T19:42:00.000-04:002008-05-08T19:42:00.000-04:00let it out hank :)Allenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05903063466328473684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641429817507217988.post-5843672304435201932008-05-08T18:40:00.000-04:002008-05-08T18:40:00.000-04:00@Abhishek: You're right, that was a horrible analogy. :) But I get the point.<BR/><BR/>@Hank: But you have to admit, "social" is a good buzzword. Just like "Web 2.0" and "Ajax" have become.Sasha Chedygovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07010907860837667852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641429817507217988.post-54940594265925977072008-05-08T16:57:00.000-04:002008-05-08T16:57:00.000-04:00Why not just be done with it and call email "social messaging" and instant messaging "instant socializing". <BR/><BR/>"You can call email social, if you email just because your friend emailed"<BR/><BR/>How about "social walking" for when you walk down the street and say hello to people.<BR/><BR/>"Walking becomes social when you don't like to or generally walk, but now your friends starts to walk and since you see them doing it often you start doing it with them"<BR/><BR/>"Social eating", for when you take a friend out to eat and are nice to the waiter. <BR/><BR/>"Social sleeping", for when you go to bed with your wife or significant other, or, well with whoever. <BR/><BR/>How about "social peeing", for when you (guys) go into a public bathroom and there is someone at the next urinal.<BR/><BR/>"Well this is a bad analogy to make fun of social. Again, peeing become social when you pee just because your friends or people around you are going to pee and you pee as well, just because everyone was"Abhishek Goyalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00175100813584716316noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641429817507217988.post-81660401514802776242008-05-08T16:39:00.000-04:002008-05-08T16:39:00.000-04:00You wrote what i've been thinking ... i totally agree :-). But then: isn't this a typical behaviour of a hype? It gets hyped, the term misused, and when we're over the top of the hype cycle (Gartner introduced the model i think), we adopt it and use it in the ways practically possible.Raoul Teeuwenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08147564137868005615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641429817507217988.post-74278147323895143332008-05-08T12:39:00.000-04:002008-05-08T12:39:00.000-04:00As you implied, the Internet was social from the beginning. I used local BBSes and later IRC back in the day, and I communicated more with people online then than I do now. Plus it usually led to meatspace hookups.<BR/><BR/>And mr emperor, porn isn't making nearly as much money as it used to, and that's largely because of file sharing, and not just pirating. People make amateur porn and just give it away.homo superiorhttp://www.homosuperiorblog.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641429817507217988.post-69753027927715215552008-05-08T11:33:00.000-04:002008-05-08T11:33:00.000-04:00ontario,<BR/><BR/>That is *hilarious*!!!!Hank Williamshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00592098931050346414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641429817507217988.post-17189118350043794322008-05-08T11:30:00.000-04:002008-05-08T11:30:00.000-04:00(Found this on FriendFeed via Louis Gray's Google Reader shared items.)<BR/><BR/>This morning, they were discussing one organization on the radio that's making a huge amount of money via a social framework. It's called a drug cartel. And I'm sure that porn is making money also.Ontario Emperorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00468229071024779982noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641429817507217988.post-76233020277176909122008-05-08T11:20:00.000-04:002008-05-08T11:20:00.000-04:00You're right. Web economics are in a state of purgatory - there's no viable model for "significant" ROI in sight, especially for application developers let alone social nets and web video. Talk about the accelerated timeline of the web; the optimism of a year ago has been replaced by ambiguous, wheel spinning terms such as "early days."<BR/><BR/>Hank, would love your take on some of my rants on these topics:<BR/><BR/>http://tinyurl.com/65o4nzJZhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04580241147314114957noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8641429817507217988.post-45183255635521279092008-05-08T11:00:00.000-04:002008-05-08T11:00:00.000-04:00That's funny, I wrote something this morning about why social isn't making money despite being a great experience: <BR/><BR/>http://www.pchristensen.com/blog/articles/the-value-is-in-the-experience/Peter Christensenhttp://www.pchristensen.comnoreply@blogger.com