That title gives me sci-fi visions of an army of Econ-101-manufacturing-units marching over a hill to overtake an unsuspecting fictional Orwellian village, but it is actually the reality of our web today. Other People’s Platforms (OPP - yeah you know me, sorry, had to) is the new web where programs run on top of […]

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Update 7:30: 1) how did you seed the site? it was done all virally with no marketing spend 2) is language your edge? yes, being global early has helped us grow 3) building platform? yes, we are building one and will partner with google on open social 4) mobile strategy? yes, working on one especially […]

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So says Nicolas Carlson at Valleywag (although SN messaging equaling email messaging in the UK is not what that chart illustrates) and pretty much goes without saying . There’s no way that it can’t since people are on the SNs all day long and feel the urge to communicate. The problem is that […]

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Saul Hansell’s post at NYTimes has put email at the center of social networking strategy discussion. “Inbox 2.0 Yahoo and Google to Turn Email into a Social Network” talks about how Yahoo and Google plan to turn their email user base into rich social network experience-
Web-based e-mail systems already contain much of what Facebook […]

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Came across a report from the Radicati Group, a very well-respected market research firm specializing in messaging and collaboration, who says there are currently 1.4 billion (basically the population of China) active email accounts. They project active email users to grow to almost 2 billion by 2011.

Wow. Nice. Also, looks like people […]

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Quick update on the previous post about dead-as-a-door-nail email. Looks like there is more bad publicity for email out there today, but as it has been said before, “there’s no such thing as bad publicity” — just publicity.

The chart does show an interesting trend but it speaks more about the growth of […]

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New platform creates new opportunities for monetization. Facebook example demonstrates that. Having seen amazing growth in sign-ups, Zuckerberg and team are  announcing their big plans around social advertisement. Underlying relationship data (aka social graph) is a compelling input to make ad-targeting precise and relevant.
Erik Schonfeld is live blogging Facebook announcement:
People influence people. Nothing influences […]

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We were just starting to get MessageDance going when we saw this article about how email is dead.  Yes!  Perfect!  There is nothing better than being a technology contrarian!  I mean, did the world really need another search engine in 1998?  Not really, but search definitely had room for improvement.  We settled down a bit […]

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We’re calling it “Just One Email”. We’ll explain what we mean by this in future posts.  Stay tuned!

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