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A comment on Paul Buchheit: There's no such thing as a "social network".

Re:Paul Buchheit: There's no such thing as a "social network" by Goladus on Monday December 03, 2007 @10:03AM (#85606)
That's a great consolidation of the features offered by typical software in the 'social network' category.

It might also be worthwhile to distinguish the 'network effect' or 'network lock-in' which is when significant parts of the value of a service come from the people already using it.

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Re:Paul Buchheit: There's no such thing as a "social network" by brlewis on Monday December 03, 2007 @10:23AM (#85613)
That's a good point. Even after FriendFeed destroys the network lock-in of the current crop of social networking sites, it's important for people to remember what network lock-in is, to look out for it in the future.
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