http://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2007/08/21/communities-cant-flourish-in-walled-gardens/ open source software innovation support centre Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:30:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2007/08/21/communities-cant-flourish-in-walled-gardens/comment-page-1/#comment-101 OSS Watch team blog » Blog Archive » The end of “walled garden” social networks? Sat, 03 Nov 2007 21:08:22 +0000 http://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/2007/08/21/communities-cant-flourish-in-walled-gardens/#comment-101 [...] Is OpenSocial going to change the world? (If you need a quick intro to OpenSocial then watch this short video, or if your prefer reading try the API site). [...] [...] Is OpenSocial going to change the world? (If you need a quick intro to OpenSocial then watch this short video, or if your prefer reading try the API site). [...]

]]> http://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2007/08/21/communities-cant-flourish-in-walled-gardens/comment-page-1/#comment-100 OSS Watch team blog » Blog Archive » Why is Facebook labelled as a fad? Sat, 06 Oct 2007 13:56:47 +0000 http://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/2007/08/21/communities-cant-flourish-in-walled-gardens/#comment-100 [...] Statistics can be used to prove anything, only time will tell us the truth. The same is true for Facebook, having a huge number of users today is not an indication that they will have users tomorrow. It is hard to ignore the evidence of the past failures of walled gardens in the Internet space (e.g. Compuserve, Telecom Gold, MiniTel, Prestel and AOL) when compared to the flexibility of a truly open system. Only AOL survived by tearing down its walls. The dot com boom and bust saw similar results, the only really significant players to hold out were Amazon and EBay - both were early adopters of the open API approach to their data. [...] [...] Statistics can be used to prove anything, only time will tell us the truth. The same is true for Facebook, having a huge number of users today is not an indication that they will have users tomorrow. It is hard to ignore the evidence of the past failures of walled gardens in the Internet space (e.g. Compuserve, Telecom Gold, MiniTel, Prestel and AOL) when compared to the flexibility of a truly open system. Only AOL survived by tearing down its walls. The dot com boom and bust saw similar results, the only really significant players to hold out were Amazon and EBay – both were early adopters of the open API approach to their data. [...]

]]> http://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2007/08/21/communities-cant-flourish-in-walled-gardens/comment-page-1/#comment-99 OSS Watch team blog » Blog Archive » SHOCK: A social networking tool I like Wed, 19 Sep 2007 09:13:19 +0000 http://osswatch.jiscinvolve.org/2007/08/21/communities-cant-flourish-in-walled-gardens/#comment-99 [...] Communities can’t flourish in walled gardens [...] [...] Communities can’t flourish in walled gardens [...]

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