Comments on: Spoiled for choice – Web 2.0 apps in crowded verticals http://www.acidlabs.org/2007/05/29/spoiled-for-choice-web-20-apps-in-crowded-verticals/ Conversation. Collaboration. Community. Sat, 06 Mar 2010 02:35:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Yaakov Sash http://www.acidlabs.org/2007/05/29/spoiled-for-choice-web-20-apps-in-crowded-verticals/comment-page-1/#comment-2114 Yaakov Sash Tue, 29 May 2007 13:35:42 +0000 http://dev.acidlabs.org/2007/05/29/spoiled-for-choice-web-20-apps-in-crowded-verticals/#comment-2114 The deep buy-in you are referring to is the cost of convincing your friends to "join" your tool and use it consistently. If all your friends are on delicious is doesn't help if Magnolia is better. With the release of the Facebook F8 Platform (for deep integration with Facebook), I expect to see a lot of convergence around Facebook, diminishing the importance of each tool's own network. Yes, each network will have to migrate to Facebook, but as Facebook was designed a the "premier" social network, I don't think there will be much pain. And once all networks are migrated to Facebook, each tool's own social network will diminish in importance. (Until MySpace introduces their own deep integration platform and splits everyone's network again... oh, well.) Concerning your bookmarks, you may want to consider using a tool like JumpKnowledge (<a href='http://jkn.com' rel="nofollow">jkn.com</a>) which allows you to annotate web pages before bookmarking them. JKN is integrated with del.icio.us and other bookmarking, blog, and email services (Not Magnolia. But don't shoot me, it'll be added shortly.) Full disclosure: I am founder of JKN The deep buy-in you are referring to is the cost of convincing your friends to “join” your tool and use it consistently. If all your friends are on delicious is doesn’t help if Magnolia is better.

With the release of the Facebook F8 Platform (for deep integration with Facebook), I expect to see a lot of convergence around Facebook, diminishing the importance of each tool’s own network. Yes, each network will have to migrate to Facebook, but as Facebook was designed a the “premier” social network, I don’t think there will be much pain. And once all networks are migrated to Facebook, each tool’s own social network will diminish in importance. (Until MySpace introduces their own deep integration platform and splits everyone’s network again… oh, well.)

Concerning your bookmarks, you may want to consider using a tool like JumpKnowledge (jkn.com) which allows you to annotate web pages before bookmarking them. JKN is integrated with del.icio.us and other bookmarking, blog, and email services (Not Magnolia. But don’t shoot me, it’ll be added shortly.)

Full disclosure: I am founder of JKN

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