Europe still makes entrepreneurs !

Blog Author — Wed, 13 Apr 2005 08:18:00 GMT

Answering Loic Lemeur's post about the Yahoo acquisition of Flickr (this social network / web-based online photo sharing), I strongly recommend you to have a look at PixVillage, our software application dedicated to online photo sharing. Be sure we will do our best to succeed in this fast growing/competitve business :)

Social networking, just a buzz-word ?

Blog Author — Tue, 12 Apr 2005 23:47:00 GMT

Today, at Capital IT (see my previous post), Marc Simoncini from Meetic has pointed out that social networks were expensive (and long) to build while their business model (advertising and/or subscription) was unclear. Marc was talking about Friendster, Friendset, Orkut, etc. I think Marc is right. I have never understood how VCs could input so much money for these new "communities" concept (remember French Multimania?).

Let's think about it : you usually build a "social network" around common interests (say landscape photography) or for a dedicated goal with people you know (say your birthday party photo sharing). Would I have any interest to build a community with friends I already know. The answer is yes if I consider a particular topic as the core of our social ties (say tennis). Otherwise, I am afraid not.

Nevertheless, social networks with professional objectives (see LinkedIn) could be more valuable because I clearly see the added value for the end-user : sales, partnership, job search, etc.

I will follow carrefully what's going on social networks and business networks.

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Europe still makes entrepreneurs !

Social networking, just a buzz-word ?