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Alltop.com is a new site that’s really cool and has a simple layout that adds to its usefulness.
Alltop imports all the top blogs and news sites related to a topic and updates the topic every 10 minutes. As you can imagine I’m always looking at its design section. Today Alltop added a career section, career.alltop.com.
The International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) kicked off today in Las Vegas. It’s always interesting to see what new technology we have coming in the next few months.
Innovation is a key word in 2008 and Business Week released a slide-show of its predictions.
If you like trend forecasting here are some lists to scan:
I don’t have a Facebook page…..
YES that’s right…
I don’t have a MySpace either and what’s more I’ve been holding out, yep, holding out for whatever is next. For the past six or seven months I’ve told my friends the MySpace era is over and we are now in the Facebook era and lately I’ve been adding and the Facebook era is in it’s mid to last phase.
Aaron Karo wrote in his Ruminations this past Monday “I think that most people are in agreement that MySpace is rapidly becoming another Friendster: a spam-filled clusterfuck ………. And let’s be honest, Facebook is not far behind.” He is hilarious and he is right.
Or course Facebook’s privacy invading new advertising beacon didn’t help their popularity. And this morning Techland had a post that opened with “A lot of people say that Facebook has jumped the shark. That’s flat out wrong. In fact, Facebook is now being devoured by the shark. There’s so much blood in the water, it’s attracting other sharks“
Maybe social networking sites have a defined window of time to be in the spotlight. Social networks are analogous to clubs/bars meaning very few have lasting “cool/in/hip” power nevertheless, there are very few places which will always be deemed cool. The question is will there be a classic/staple social netoworking site? The social networking sites that will probably thrive over the years are those connected to real life institutions like college alumni clubs, professional sports teams, and those dedicated to niche hobby/interests.
