Current hot-place-to-be Facebook also knows this and therefore calls themselves a “social networking utility“. A utility, a tool, is something you use to build things, so a social networking tool ought to be something you use to build social networks with. They have a somewhat open API, making them a kind of platform. Their strategy is to become the social networking operative system of the web. The Microsoft Windows of social networks. We’ll see if they make it.
Como el lugar cool de hoy, mañana se muere (pasa con los restaurantes, las discos, todo) Facebook cree haberle encontrado la vuelta, pero mejor que no canten victoria. Ojo con el número de Dunbar y el “social whirl”
(via Social networking beyond the Dunbar number of 150 « ReachCards - the blog)
