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Ask HN: What is the next "social" bubble?

Posted by dmitripopov_com on Thursday June 06, 2013 @02:55PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I guess every one of us knows someone who invents "brand new social network that will change the world forever". New social networks appear and die every year. Pinterest is a good example - it was praised by online marketers a year ago and almost dead now. Are there any new potential social bubbles that grow quick at this moment?

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Re:Ask HN: what projects are you working on? on Thursday June 06, 2013 @12:52PM (#5833565)

I am working on my own help authoring tool "with blackjack and hookers" :) It has a cool name: Helpinator.

Re:How I Taught Myself to Code in Eight Weeks on Thursday June 06, 2013 @10:42AM (#5832692)

Learn Python in 24 hours, write your code in 12, and then spend the rest of your life refactoring :)

Re:Here's Why Google Reader Really Got the Axe on Thursday June 06, 2013 @10:23AM (#5832567)

I think there are two types of users in this case - "consumers" and "researchers". Social news are good for "consumers" with their usage pattern "Read-Like-Forget". They consume to feed their hunger and nothing more. "Researchers" carefully select trustful sources and follow them, they need a tool that allows to keep track and never miss important info. "Researcher" pattern is impossible in the "social" noisy flood of news.