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The 10 Commandments of the Social Web

Started by Nick O'Neill · 10 months ago

Over the past year I have been covering Facebook and social networks obsessively. The more I write and the more I read, the more complex the social web becomes. The social web is the part of the internet where people socialize and interact with each other. It can be as simple as [...] ... Continue reading »

26 comments

  • Racing School

    7 months ago

    Nice commandments. It is a reminder for all Web 2.0 companies.
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  • Parallel Import Cars

    7 months ago

    Really good tips. Need to digest them slowly.
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  • Knee Pain

    6 months ago

    Very nice commandments. Moses would be proud.
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  • Back Pain

    6 months ago

    Thou shalt not follow...on Twitter.
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  • Obat Kanker

    5 months ago

    Thou shall need to have a good business model in order to stay afloat and get funding.
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  • Mark Schoneveld

    11 months ago

    It makes me so happy to read this AFTER working so hard on the next version of our site (launching in a couple weeks)! We've got a great handle on just about every one of these. Thanks, Nick. You just made our Dev Team very happy (and relieved)!
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  • Anna

    11 months ago

    good advice thanks for posting!
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  • Clarence Wooten

    11 months ago

    Fantastic post. I think CollectiveX adheres to 7.5 of your 10 Commandments. I'm pretty sure that we'll eventually achieve 9.5 of your 10.

    Again, great post. Keep up the good work :-)

    Clarence
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  • Fiana de Guzman

    11 months ago

    Great post! My thoughts exactly!
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  • Philipp Sauber

    11 months ago

    Thanks for the post.
    What's most important to me, and I think you mentioned that under point 10, is, that a social network should give the users the possibility of spreading informations virally.
    Facebook offers many API that support viral Marketing. Xing a social network in Europe doesn't and that's why it is not working as well as Facebook in therms of Users etc.
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  • Hal

    11 months ago

    Very conclusive and considered essay.
    As seen on del.icio.us
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  • SourcerKelly

    11 months ago

    Perfect Post! Absolutely agree with all your points and will happily re-tweet in the spirit of social media.......

    SK
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  • Jason

    11 months ago

    The omission of accessibility is a glaring mistake with this article. In addition to the practical reasons for developing social networks accessibly, there is also the matter of legality. And that won't be changing any time soon.
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  • stanley

    11 months ago

    i dont fully agree with rule no. 2 ("Thous shalt support all forms of media"). for business...you first have to look at your business model and what you're trying to accomplish, and if what you're trying to do doesn't match up with all types of media, then you shouldn't play in all types of media just because it's the newest fad (which happens to be one of the biggest mistakes of those corporations trying to enter into this digital social space).
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  • Alicia

    11 months ago

    What a great post. Very well captured! I experienced some pain you advise against today, and one other that comes to my mind is...thou shalt have a user friendly interface! :)
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  • Zvi Band

    11 months ago

    With regards to #3... I think it goes far beyond having an avatar. Instead, I would extend it to having the user be able to clearly identify themselves, rather than go by a screen name or avatar. That was Web 1.0, where everyone was on bulletin board, IM, etc with handles that didn't represent who we are. Facebook, LinkedIn, and to some extent MySpace instead focus on showing who you really are, rather than it being an anonymous account.

    But great post otherwise!
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  • johnkoetsier

    11 months ago

    Nice, very nice. Yes the image is cheesy :-) but the 10 guidelines are spot on.
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  • banhaclong20

    11 months ago

    thanks for share. It's great
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  • Randy Thornton

    11 months ago

    And included in commandment 9 about data harvesting should be the corollary - thou shalt provide full data exportability in an open, standard format.
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  • Sylwia Presley

    8 months ago

    Very, very good! thank you for putting it all together! I agree!
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  • Alex

    7 months ago

    Good tips, thank you
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  • SEO

    4 months ago

    Thou Shalt provide granular privacy settings that we really needed at this time in order to make our applications more profitable by encouraging more people to come and use our application...
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  • billshadow

    4 months ago

    haha, thats a nice one there, "Thou shall provide users with a nice face!" Come to think of it, anybody up for generating real-to-life faces? It would be awesome! :)
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  • Cheap Textbooks

    4 months ago

    anyone who wants to develop a social networking site should read first this and there will be very little chance of can failure. This is a sure shot secret for a successful social website.

    keep the good work coming...
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  • biznes

    4 months ago

    Social websites are symbols of modern internet.
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  • internet video marketing

    11 months ago

    I think this needs to be given to every Fortune 500 company that wants to establish a social online presence.
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