Openness, network effects, and competition in social networks - Trends in the Living Networks
Trends in the Living Networks
AUGUST 3, 2007
From the very beginning of the social networking space, with the launch of sixdegrees.com in 2000 (which gave up the ghost in January 2002), the fundamental underlying issue was whether social networks would be entirely exclusive and competitive, or whether they would in some way integrate to create a global social networking space.
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