Comments on: Social network traffic – maybe not declining after all http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/02/28/social-network-traffic-maybe-not-declining-after-all/ Nic Brisbourne's view from London on venture capital and exploiting change in technology and media Sat, 11 Feb 2012 20:08:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Social networking goes to the long tail « The Equity Kicker http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/02/28/social-network-traffic-maybe-not-declining-after-all/#comment-1636 Social networking goes to the long tail « The Equity Kicker Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:45:50 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/02/28/social-network-traffic-maybe-not-declining-after-all/#comment-1636 [...] have written before about how whilst the growth of the leading socnets is flattening niche socnets seems to be [...] [...] have written before about how whilst the growth of the leading socnets is flattening niche socnets seems to be [...]

]]> By: alan p http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/02/28/social-network-traffic-maybe-not-declining-after-all/#comment-1445 alan p Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:14:37 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/02/28/social-network-traffic-maybe-not-declining-after-all/#comment-1445 Nic, I think you are right re growth of niche networks. Also, if the dynamics of Web 1.0 niches like yahoo Groups are anything to go by, Niche nets retain their traffic better - the tailoff curve I showed in my analysis on this is far shallower: http://broadstuff.com/archives/750-The-Rollercoaster-Dynamics-of-Social-Net-Usage-Traffic-Crash.html Nic, I think you are right re growth of niche networks. Also, if the dynamics of Web 1.0 niches like yahoo Groups are anything to go by, Niche nets retain their traffic better – the tailoff curve I showed in my analysis on this is far shallower:

http://broadstuff.com/archives/750-The-Rollercoaster-Dynamics-of-Social-Net-Usage-Traffic-Crash.html

]]> By: alan p http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/02/28/social-network-traffic-maybe-not-declining-after-all/#comment-11149 alan p Wed, 05 Mar 2008 00:14:00 +0000 http://www.theequitykicker.com/2008/02/28/social-network-traffic-maybe-not-declining-after-all/#comment-11149 Nic, I think you are right re growth of niche networks. Also, if the dynamics of Web 1.0 niches like yahoo Groups are anything to go by, Niche nets retain their traffic better - the tailoff curve I showed in my analysis on this is far shallower: http://broadstuff.com/archives/750-The-Rollercoaster-Dynamics-of-Social-Net-Usage-Traffic-Crash.html Nic, I think you are right re growth of niche networks. Also, if the dynamics of Web 1.0 niches like yahoo Groups are anything to go by, Niche nets retain their traffic better – the tailoff curve I showed in my analysis on this is far shallower:

http://broadstuff.com/archives/750-The-Rollercoaster-Dynamics-of-Social-Net-Usage-Traffic-Crash.html

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