Facebook's Face Plant: The Poverty of Social Networks and the Death of Web 2.0

Huffington Post by Peter Schwartz | Dec. 9, 2008 (Editorial)

It is safe now to say that "Web 2.0" is dead. The evidence is irrefutable and it exposes the twin fallacies the concept of Web 2.0 has depended upon: 1) that people can build their worlds around - indeed, will want to build their worlds around - social networking; and 2) that social networking offers a viable, massively scalable business model. Full Story »

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by Jim Wilkerson - Dec. 10, 2008

Well written for what it is: an opinion. But many/most of the statistics from which the writer's opinion is drawn are feeble and far from scientific. A statement like "Kids are turning off to Facebook." based on the the experience of his son and a straw poll of 15 of his friends while slightly interesting, are hardly theorems from which Zuckerburg will be making strategic plans.

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