Category: Blog
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The Real Reason Google Plus Failed
Google Plus should have been an Internet giant, a social network to put fear into the heart of Mark Zuckerberg. Instead it became the giant butt of Internet jokes, a place you go to on the Internet when you want to be by yourself. Its failure has lessons for anyone building a private social network.
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Google Is Going To Make Your Community Much More Polite
Could the days of toxic comments finally be over? Is the Internet about to become a pleasant, polite place where opinions are always offered with respect and talkbacks are actually worth reading? If Google has its way, that might be exactly what’s about to happen.
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PeepSo – AutoFriends Plugin
PeepSo – AutoFriends Plugin is a part of PeepSo Foundation. It’s small and simple but allows automatic friendship formation between selected users and everyone else in the community.
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Why Twitter’s @Jack Can’t Beat The Trolls… But You Can
Twitter isn’t having a great time. While Facebook continues to pile on the users and drag in the money, Twitter’s latest quarterly report showed a 0.5 percent decline in year-on-year revenue. User growth has stalled. Shares fell 10 percent on the news.
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Your Social Network Is A Real Social Benefit
When Valerie Elmore saw a dog run out on a local road and get hit by a car, she did what anyone would do. She gathered the dog up and drove straight to a nearby animal hospital. Unfortunately, the dog died, and Elmore turned to Nextdoor, a local social network, to find out whether anyone…
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People Love Taking Selfies, Hate Seeing Them
PeepSo comes with a ton of features. We spent months building and testing add-ons that allow for video uploads and custom profiles, groups and moods. And in the end it all comes down to selfies.
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Revealing Location Data Doesn’t Need To Make Your Members Nervous
For about a month at the end of 2016, Transport for London – the body responsible for managing the London Underground, conducted an interesting experiment. It tracked the mobile phones of passengers traveling through the center of the city. Gizmodo has managed to acquire the data that TfL gathered — and it has some valuable…
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Fishbrain Shows Social Network Builders How To Hook Members
In general, networks like Facebook and Instagram are sharing platforms — they’re super broad. And when you’re posting about your passion, it’s irrelevant to many of your friends.
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When Two Local Social Networks Go To War, Only One Can Survive
“Nobody in the office is crying,” Matthew Boyes told Techcrunch after the announcement that he had sold his UK company Streetlife to the American firm Nextdoor. The US-based local social network had closed a “multi-million pound acquisition” to buy its rival’s assets. None of Streetlife’s staff will follow the user data to the new owner…
