Comments on: Social Graph: Shifting Toward Quality

By: Lars Hilse

Lars Hilse — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 22:55:40 +0000

Didn’t I join around that time?

By: Andrew Scott

Andrew Scott — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:05:42 +0000

It seems to me a no-brainer that over the next 24 months there will be more demand -especially in geekdom- for the major social networks to take interconnection seriously.

With-in three years I predict the age of the walled-garden social network will be dead.

Certainly niche or vertical social networks will survive – but it will be in their interest to support the likes of Googles Social Graph API (or a-another) because they will always be in the minority compared to the larger Social Software brands. Rummble’s intention is to continue to build out our algorithm IP to become a discovery tool for content within these interconnected social networks, which a useful level of trust and personalisation. Users are already experiencing friend-fatigue; close on the heels of that over-sized friends list is content overload. Rummble provides a way to solve that.

By: therealmccrea

therealmccrea — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:55:49 +0000

Hey, Chris. It was almost a perfect storm. The Google news story broke unexpectedly early, and we jumped in fast to be a big part of the early conversation. A huge wave, driven by PR, came over to our site, seeing it for the forst time. We’re a social application, so the surge primed the pump. In addition, we had just fixed a bunch of things in the new user flows that we honestly a bit half-baked prior to that. The combination of those factors launched the service in a new high-growth direction.

It will be interesting to see what happens when we actually roll out support for OpenSocial apps!

By: Chris Messina

Chris Messina — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:16:47 +0000

Huh, interesting stuff…! That was indeed quite an inflection point — any other factors that contributed to that rise, would you say?