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  Tony

  1 year ago

  Hi Taylor,
  
  Great post! I think your point about how game theory and persistent identity on the web intertwine is spot on. I think we've seen in large part (particularly in the migration from Myspace to Facebook) the fading of anonymity on the web, the next step is whether that identity becomes portable and persistent across services. If we do we might find the web a place that's far more polite and far less accommodating to spammers etc.
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  Taylor Davidson

  1 year ago

  Thanks. I think as people integrate offline and online lives even more, and the desire to have a consistent identity between the two spreads even deeper throughout society, the demand for the tools for create that portable / persistent identity will emerge. Love how you guys are contributing to the effort.
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  LL

  1 year ago

  The other day, I read somewhere (can't remember the source) that social networking's business model may go the way of e-mail, meaning that it is virtually ubiquitous, indispensable, and free, analogous to your thoughts on it being like air. I have a hard time making a credible argument otherwise. Facebook has already had issues monetizing its user base. Will be interesting how that all plays out.
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  Taylor Davidson

  1 year ago

  So, I ask: why does Facebook have problems "monetizing"? Think about how people use social networks: that behaviour can be hard to find ways to make money off. Advertising is only one way to make money, and advertising on social networks is difficult to do effectively and at valuable $ rates because of the way people's attention is used in social networks: it's not the same as web browsing.
  
  Check out my earlier posts for thoughts on social networks becoming like email
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  Taylor Davidson

  12 months ago

  Oddly, starting on July 17th you can actually register a .me address... but will people use them to manage their identities, to own their brand and identity?
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