A question...I have recently started to think about how SNS are or might change. Just the fact that people use pownce and twitter say something about how people interact. Are these users active in Facebook or MySpace as well? I look at my own interaction and most time is spent on IM and email, the rest divided to facebook, pownce and twitter. In fact, most of my updating of facebook status is done via twitter.

When it comes to SNS Google is doing a very interesting move activating your gmail addressbook as the base for you network which makes even more sense since those contacts are more "valuable"...add to this open social and then the locked networks that exist today.

Having "locked" networks has to create a problem. People don't want to create memberships everywhere, update and so on..I know myself that I often feel that I cannot start using many services such as dopplr because similar functionality exist in facebook and most of the people I interact with will never use dooplr instead of facebook. That has to be a problem for new services and internet startups...??

7 months, 3 weeks ago by Andreas S.