You know, with all these sorts of things

Nobody really knows what's going to be successful until it happens. Forgive me, but attempting to market something like this is, I believe, doomed to failure. The Kids are suspicious of anything they're told will be good and just discover things for themselves or by word of mouth.

The example I like to use is SMS. As I understand it, it was a bit of an afterthought by the telecomms companies; but people found a use for it and it exploded - a new dialect was even invented! It's success was obvious after the effect; but not before. The more sophisticated MMS is a comparative failure because it didn't really offer that much more.

I can't even remember how I found last.fm; but it seemed an interesting way of recording my listening habits when I first saw it. Now I'm using it to discover all sorts of new music and find out about gigs in my area. There was an OK article about it in the Online Guardian a couple of months ago.

Posted By: BerlinCanary on April 10th 2007 at 12:38:23

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you young things and/or geeks on here - a question (General Chat) - camcan, Apr 10, 11:48:36
- The only "social networking" thing I use is last.fm (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Apr 10, 12:26:48
  - Gosh perish the thought (General Chat) - camcan, Apr 10, 12:29:01
    - the obvious way to do it is to using existing networks (General Chat) - Dave in France, Apr 10, 12:41:55
      - "get some cool people on here and on other forums to try out the network" (General Chat) - Old Git, Apr 10, 12:44:07
        
        you're top of my list (n/m) (General Chat) - camcan, Apr 10, 12:45:48
      - ah exactly (General Chat) - camcan, Apr 10, 12:44:05
    - You know, with all these sorts of things (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Apr 10, 12:38:23
      - that's pretty much how I feel too (General Chat) - camcan, Apr 10, 12:41:27
        
        Here's a John Naughton article - he's usually pretty reliable (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Apr 10, 12:58:36
- Online dating? (n/m) (General Chat) - iwans_ex_dentist, Apr 10, 11:49:19
  - yes of course that's why I'm asking (General Chat) - camcan, Apr 10, 11:50:38
    - I do use it (General Chat) - conker, Apr 10, 11:57:24
      - i like stumble-upon (General Chat) - Dave in France, Apr 10, 12:04:04
        
        ok - so how did you stumble upon them?? (General Chat) - camcan, Apr 10, 12:19:43
        
        The Register has good articles on the Web 2.0 thing (General Chat) - BerlinCanary, Apr 10, 12:29:29
        
        it's about networking, isn't it? (General Chat) - Dave in France, Apr 10, 12:24:55

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