http://floatingsun.net/2008/03/12/lifestream-whats-the-big-deal/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lifestream-whats-the-big-deal Mon, 06 Feb 2012 12:32:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://floatingsun.net/2008/03/12/lifestream-whats-the-big-deal/#comment-33586 Diwaker Gupta Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:33:14 +0000 http://floatingsun.net/2008/03/12/lifestream-whats-the-big-deal/#comment-33586 *@abhijit*: I don't see much "personalization" in most aggregators. In most cases, the network effect is the most dominant factor. Once you have a few key users, their friends and friends of friends start using the service. Services that miss this critical mass growth early on have the quickest fallouts. Even if a service can some how encourage user loyalty, it still doesn't immediately translate to revenue. Unless of course your exit strategy is a Google buyout or an eBay sale :-) *@abhijit*: I don’t see much “personalization” in most aggregators. In most cases, the network effect is the most dominant factor. Once you have a few key users, their friends and friends of friends start using the service. Services that miss this critical mass growth early on have the quickest fallouts. Even if a service can some how encourage user loyalty, it still doesn’t immediately translate to revenue. Unless of course your exit strategy is a Google buyout or an eBay sale :-)

]]> http://floatingsun.net/2008/03/12/lifestream-whats-the-big-deal/#comment-33537 Abhijit Nadgouda Fri, 14 Mar 2008 06:54:33 +0000 http://floatingsun.net/2008/03/12/lifestream-whats-the-big-deal/#comment-33537 The reason there are so many of them is that it is so easy to get it up and running. The difficult part is to provide unique value to people which will define the business model. I think the trend today is to try and make it simpler for the layman. But aggregators start getting increasingly personal as we use them, to a point where most of the aggregators cannot provide that kind of personalization, and we go looking for a new one. The reason there are so many of them is that it is so easy to get it up and running. The difficult part is to provide unique value to people which will define the business model. I think the trend today is to try and make it simpler for the layman. But aggregators start getting increasingly personal as we use them, to a point where most of the aggregators cannot provide that kind of personalization, and we go looking for a new one.

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