Community mapping and social networking panel discussion at Where 2.0
Tuesday, 13. June 2006, 21:48:54
People sharing local knowledge... this is the driving force behind a number of applications and businesses. A panel discussion this afternoon addressed some of the issues facing developers of these applications. the revenue model still seems to be somewhat unclear.. mind-you, this is the case for most web-based businesses. The advertising revenue model is the focus of most of the popular applications but is this realistic in the long run? Commercial or member-only premium services are also being considered by some, although this is clearly down the road. Flickr has managed to penetrate this hurdle, however, will the developers of the hundreds or thousands of social networking mashups have a similar success? I know I'm a little more comfortable giving my credit card to Yahoo! than i am to a small developer running out of a basement office. An interesting question was posed... what if sommeone posts a the address of a celebrity and the complaints start rolling in? One response was that we would wait for an email to come in and then remove the point based on the request. So, what if the company starts getting 5,000 email complaints per day... sureley this response is not viable in the long-run! Another area of concern is how is the battle against spam and abuse being handled? The panelists did not have many experiences to date involving spam and once again are handling on an as-needed basis or letting the community police the site... once again, is this a viable solution in the long-run? the developer of 43places.com mentioned a "plpaying dead" solution where the spammer is led to believe that he has succeeded... not a bad solution! One site uses "cheers" and a pay it forward style system. For example, you can’t comment until you yourself receive some cheers and positive feedback from others... again, a decent idea. Otherwise, the other way of addressing spam is requiring users to create a login or user profile which has worked quite well to date. Of note, panelists were representing the following social networking applications:
flagr.com, platial.com, 43things.com, and zopto.com.
Of note, some Suggested sites we heard about today:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/
http://www.platial.com/splash
http://www.43places.com/
http://www.wayfaring.com/
http://www.skyhookwireless.com/
http://www.flagr.com
http://www.ning.com/
flagr.com, platial.com, 43things.com, and zopto.com.
Of note, some Suggested sites we heard about today:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/
http://www.platial.com/splash
http://www.43places.com/
http://www.wayfaring.com/
http://www.skyhookwireless.com/
http://www.flagr.com
http://www.ning.com/
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