Family values and social networks
I'm back in London after having helped Gulla pack her things and paint her flat and we are now living together in Enfield road.
The plan is then to move again at the end of this month to Richmond.
Recently I have been writing a white paper on the use of social web applications within the enterprise and hope to release it soon. On that train of thought I have been thinking about the purpose of social networks and how they might evolve.
Last year I signed up for Geni, the online family tree and since then my relatives have helped in populating my tree to the size of 138 individuals. Geni has also grown and now they offer photo and video sharing in addition to my favorite feature, the birthday calendar.
My family is also on Facebook but I find that the older generation doesn't get it, they seem to be more active on the Geni site because it has a clearer function in their mind.
I just read on Techchrunch that the largest tree on Geni has 680.000 profiles and 40.000 users.
Ning has also been doing quite well as a platform for more focused social networks and my guess is that smaller distributed social networks will be the major challengers of Facebook and Myspace in the next couple of years and with technologies like the Google Social Graph, we won't mind signing up and participating in multiple social networks.
I just helped my mate Kiddi set up a social network for Marine Energy Management. How´s that for a clear focus…
