The current efforts to interconnect profile updates are definitely well timed. JIT, Just in Time. In an article I read recently, one expert forecast that social networks will grow from the current 850 to about 250,000 within a year. With that Google Friend Connect service enabling social network creation like crazy, I don’t doubt it. In fact I talked about this type of social media fragmentation in a recent post.
Sheesh, with that kind of market fragmentation and proliferation of social networks, an interconnect facility is definitely needed. I mean, who wants to repost profile changes to 45 or so social networks. And why would anyone want to belong to 45 or so social networks anyway? And hold down a full-time job, too.
250,000 within a year? By May 2009? Could be. And how about this? Back down to, say, 100,000 by May 2010? Yeah, after the disappointment with participation results results. As was suggested in the article, just like all those web portals back in the 1990s. And maybe a lot fewer than 100,000. We’ll see.
