Entries tagged with “social network” from Tools of Change for Publishing
Tim O'Reilly: Social Networks as Infrastructure, Not Apps
Mac Slocum
August 27, 2008
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Using Amazon's acquisition of Shelfari as a jumping-off point, Tim O'Reilly stresses the need for social network interoperability. From Radar:
Some of my friends prefer LibraryThing. Others may prefer Shelfari. But I only network with those on Goodreads because that's the service I ended up using first. What a shame that I can't see what my friends on LibraryThing and Shelfari might be reading! I'd love to see a firm commitment to cross-application connectivity, with the social network as infrastructure rather than application.
Amazon Acquires Shelfari
Mac Slocum
August 26, 2008
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Amazon is turning its investment in Shelfari, a book-centric social network, into a full acquisition, reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Financial details haven't been released, but Shelfari CEO Josh Hug confirmed the acquisition on Shelfari's blog:
We've got some big plans ahead. With more resources and Amazon's expertise in building a platform where people come to share ideas, there are a lot of new opportunities in the future that will benefit each of you. In the meantime, you'll continue to have access to the great community and tools that you've always known and used on the site.
Amazon earlier this month acquired AbeBooks, which is a minority investor in Shelfari's chief competitor, LibraryThing. As the Seattle P-I notes, LibraryThing had a few choice words about Shelfari's business practices in 2007.
Update 8/26/08, 11:25 a.m. Tim Spalding from LibraryThing weighs in on the Shelfari deal. (Via the Reading 2.0 list)
Early Look at HarperCollins' Social Network for Writers
Peter Brantley
May 8, 2008
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HarperCollins' social network for burgeoning authors, Authonomy, is now in private beta. Booktwo.org provides an analysis:
The real challenge, of course, is to persuade wannabe writers to post their work at all -- in my own personal experience, unpublished writers are terrified of their work being 'stolen', enough to be suspicious of publishers themselves, let alone your average web surfer ... Authonomy’s FAQs wisely address many of these concerns ... As they put it, "if someone really wants to pass off your efforts as their own they'll probably find a way" ... Their real attitude to the problem is more sensible: "here at Authonomy, we believe that your talent is better displayed than kept hidden -- and that the chances of good things happening are more likely the more hands your manuscript passes through, and the more people you enlist in your support."
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