The Seeds of the Next Big Thing Are Being Planted Now

What will it be? Where are the next big things? What will the sub-prime and financial crisis teach us? What more happens on the web? Are we heading back to real economy? Will it be more software or just food on the table?

The Seeds of the Next Big Thing Are Being Planted Now: "September 4th 2008 marked Google’s tenth birthday. That means that during 2000 and 2001, when all the air was being let out of the dot-com bubble, Google was in its infancy. That was a good idea that survived the bleakest time for high tech companies. On the flip side, Facebook has not even reached its fifth birthday, but as a company it is worth well more than four billion dollars. Great ideas can scale and become big businesses very quickly. And incredible organizations like Six Apart, Plaxo, and Ning were all started before the Web 2.0 boom. What does this say about the nature of technological development and its relationship to the economy? That technological developments breed innovation, and that innovation can produce economic benefits with demonstrable impacts on the bottom line. No one knows what the next Google will be, but if it is not being built now, then someone will probably start working on it in the near future. Don’t stop working on side projects and ideas that interest you, because those ideas not only might turn into brilliant products or services but also might turn into the economic catalyst that spurs our economy onward."

Social Networking on Ning

I'm listening to Gina Bianchini from Ning speaking about private social networking.

KK-Net has created a Ning based Social Network.

Come to see and join if you find it interesting and inspiring.

The KK-Network is an open innovation and personal branding platform for knowledge workers.

We try to attract from all over the world to interact, share, and interact.

Create your own groups, invite friends and partners. Let's see what we can do together on a short and long term basis.

We give people the freedom to create. Have fun. This is a very exciting world.

The Latest from TechCrunch: Flux and Ning

The Latest from TechCrunch "Flux, a new social network joint venture between Viacom and SocialProject, had a limited launch in September.

Helge: I know and use Ning, no idea about Flux.

The platform is the cornerstone of Viacom’s social network strategy. Instead of building independent networks for MTV and its hundreds of other brands, they’ve built a distributed platform that shares users, infrastructure and content, but allows for distinct branding and community building around each property. And Flux isn’t just for Viacom - third parties are using it as well.

Helge: Viacome, yes, and...

When Flux launched it had only a few hand picked non-Viacom partners. Today they are opening up the platform for anyone that wants to join. Like Ning, it’s fairly easy to create a Flux social network. The look and feel can be customized via templates or by uploading your own CSS, and the network can be mapped to your domain name.

Helge: I like the feel of Ning. Have some experience, but the full and broad scale usage is still waiting.

Once created any Flux member can join your network with a single click. Since Flux is already gaining users via their launched Viacom and other properties, this gives young communities a deeper pool of users to draw from.

Helge: Social Media made easy...

And the fact that new users do not need to create a new profile, friends list or login credentials gives them a greater incentive to join. User data is exportable, Flux says, if the partner creates a privacy policy stating that.

Helge: I blog this to have the information for future needs.

Ning instead of Zing

Hi this is an automatic email from TwitterMail with some new replies: @digitalvillages. Sorry, I meant to type Ning.com. It's a place where you can create your own socnets for specific communities of interest DougMeacham at 23-11-2007 06:39.

I use Ning and agree about its usefulness.