Last year, the buzz surrounding social networking concerned “data portability” — giving Facebook and MySpace users, for example, an easy way to connect to one another without the need to create new profiles. That once-deafening buzz has now fallen silent, and the social networks are back working to corner more of the Web in exclusion of others. “Facebook and MySpace are having trouble monetizing their database,” said Tony Roth, chief executive officer of Celect.org.
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The Antisocial Inclinations of Social Networks
Posted by: Brian R. Hook July 29, 2009 04:00 AMLast year, the buzz surrounding social networking concerned “data portability” — giving Facebook and MySpace users, for example, an easy way to connect to one another without the need to create new profiles. That once-deafening buzz has now fallen silent, and the social networks are back working to corner more of the Web in exclusion of others. “Facebook and MySpace are having trouble monetizing their database,” said Tony Roth, chief executive officer of Celect.org.