I want to send out a heartfelt thank you to everyone who made 2007 such an incredible year. I’ve learned a lot, met a lot of new people, and had some great memories the last 12 months. I can only assume that 2008 will be even better, and I hope you are all with me on what I expect to be a very exciting journey next year.
I’ll try and post a goals post later, maybe a recap post too.
Merry christmas, happy Hanukkah, merry Kwanzaa, and a happy new year.
- Brian
I remember getting all excited late last year about Virb, the social network that emerged from the guys at neubix/purevolume. This was supposed to be the anti-myspace with its CSS support and clean designs. So where are they now? compete says under 80,000 users a month vs 5 million on hi5 or bebo.
Does this prove anything? Not really. I was probably more curious than anything. But I am definitely wondering where they are going to play in this opensocial vs facebook platform war.
Hey in case you were wondering why things were so quiet around here, I’ve been microblogging at my new tumblr site: brbreslin.com. It is somewhat of a lifestream too as it imports everything from twitter, to webplus, to this blog too.
The big news out there today is that bebo has announced their new platform will be facebook compatible. This was quickly followed by news that Facebook is opening up the architecture of their platform to everyone else.
So what does this mean? It means Bebo has some smart people working there who know a good thing when they see it. I would probably not have paid much attention to it had they not done this, even with future opensocial support. This move also means that OpenSocial even though it was obscenely hyped, and a lot of people were salivating over it, is no where near ready and people aren’t willing to wait for it. Its one thing for an Orkut to wait around for OpenSocial, since they are owned by google, but to the rest of the SocNets, time is of the essence.
Surprisingly Friendster in all the hubub the last few days announced their own platform, but didn’t pursue this route. I guess they didn’t think they needed to.
