Reed's Law: Why Facebook beat MySpace(blogs.forbes.com)
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Reed's Law: Why Facebook beat MySpace
http://blogs.forbes.com/chunkamui/2011/01/12/why-facebook-beat-myspace-and-why-myspaces-revised-strategy-will-probably-fail
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nice & concise article trying to explain why most socnetwrkng sites fail. my question/response is, is it as simple as creating "groups" for a site or is there a more complex, disciplined, and or structured approach to creating "groups"? I mean, a "Sexy Exhibitionsts" group might attract a lot of users but what kind of user community will that build as opposed to "Little Old Ladies Who Bake Cookies for Free"? There is a dynamic involved that i would like to try and breakdown in greater detail.
The Wikipedia article on Reed's Law, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%27s_law, is all about connectivity and the number and diversity of groups. That is just a resource waiting to be exploited, but there is no hint as to how the inherent grouping within a set of users can be exploited. That is where the magic comes in.
See also, Reed's Harvard Business Review article, The Law of the Pack, http://www.ecademy.com/downloads/reedslaw.pdf.
See also, Reed's Harvard Business Review article, The Law of the Pack, http://www.ecademy.com/downloads/reedslaw.pdf.
It will be much like high school cliques. They will be exclusive, relevant, and intimate. Individuals will have different cliques.