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Tim Longhurst

Great post! I couldn't agree more about the MySpace - Facebook migration. All we heard about last year was MySpace and now it's quickly becoming a corporate ghosttown - all billboards, no people.

Ultimately I think the demand will be for content independence and tools that facilitate platform neutrality. After all, who wants their content locked into facebook OR myspace?

By the way, I discovered this post through a collegue emailing it to me. Nice work on creating a viral post.

colin seeger

I am fortunate to be teaching 18 - 25 media-savvy students and the overwhelming response to Facebook is "yawn" and "seems to appeal to people who can't get real friends" - they know it's a big deal in the States but there's a very different cultural response from the admittedly small but definitely representative sample. They still value MySpace for its music-propagation power but they can't be bothered with the widget-mania of Facebook. Go figure.
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Peter

MySpace is good for bands only today. There seems to be more spammer than real users. Dead town pretty much these day. Hi5 is the 3rd most popular social stuff out there - worth to take a look.

Marc Edwards

Great article, and I completely agree. The plethora of choices means the search mechanism can no longer be the Sunday paper... we need Google and Digg styled search and user ratings for TV.

This is why we (IceTV) have created a website called I Watch This (iwatchthis.com.au).

Thankfully IceTV not only has the EPG data, but we also have thousands of users recording TV via our web and mobile interfaces. This means we have statistics on what's popular, which means other users can use that to influence what they watch... or not!

We're not planning to ever compete on the social networking aspect with Facebook etc, but we do plan to include more recommendation facilities.

Regards,
Marc.

Craig Hodges

Mike you made the comment;

"Facebook is looking pretty hot right now, but my guess is that in the long term there will be no one single network platform provider."

Well, I along with a group of interested facebook developers are gathering in Melbourne Fri 22nd Feb 08 at a Facebook Developer Garage to discuss 'just how hot it is'. This will be on the second gathering of its kind in Australia.

We have speakers discussing the development of Facebook Applications and Skype hookups with Facebook. Topics are expected to go right to the heart of the issue as to whether Facebook will 'remain hot', or not.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=9997025951&ref=share

Your Fourth Estate readers who are interested in the direction of facebook are all welcome to attend this free event.

Rory Turf

But my god those Facebook apps are annoying! When the news feed came in users complained and it seems to be getting worse.

Facebook are now trying to sell advertising but I'm dubious about the worth of such adverts - are people on social networking sites in "buying mode"? I doubt it, but if Facebook wants to create revenue this is the avenue they have to take.

Users will leave Facebook when it becomes too cluttered, too annoying, and when something better comes along to give them the opportunity.

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