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November 25, 2003
The Promise and Pitfalls of Social Networking
Posted by Stowe Boyd
The November column is up at Darwin.
[from
The Promise and Pitfalls of Social Networking]
In an editorially schizophrenic show of ambivalence, Business 2.0's November issue lauds social networking — with mentions of offerings from companies like Linkedin, Ryze, Friendster, Spoke and VisiblePath — as the best technology of 2003, while the magazine's lead article warns that the tech bubble is about to blow again. This juxtaposition of tech rise and fall has sparked a strange turn in the media discussion regarding social networking, specifically: Is the bubble around social networking about to burst?
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