{"id":3433,"date":"2009-05-01T09:54:25","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T16:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/?p=3433"},"modified":"2009-06-01T16:39:20","modified_gmt":"2009-06-01T23:39:20","slug":"running-list-of-the-five-eras-of-the-social-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/01\/running-list-of-the-five-eras-of-the-social-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Running List of the Five Eras of The Social Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/27\/future-of-the-social-web\/\">the Future of the Social Web<\/a> has created a tremendous amount of discussion &#8211;and <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/search\/http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/27\/future-of-the-social-web\/?language=n\">I&#8217;m thankful for all the voices that chimed in<\/a>.  I&#8217;m going to create this post to track the eras as they appear, obviously this is going to take a few years, but hey, I&#8217;m not going anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>Keep in mind that there&#8217;s a difference between an era starting, vs becoming mature, so read how I denote the differences below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Running List of the Five Eras of The Social Web<\/strong><br \/>\nFor details on this report, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/27\/future-of-the-social-web\/\">access the high level blog post<\/a>, or if you&#8217;re a client, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forrester.com\/Research\/Document\/Excerpt\/0,7211,46970,00.html\">access the full report on the Forrester site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Era of Social Relationships (started 1995, matured in 2003-2007)<\/strong><br \/>\nThis era is mature.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>AOL, 1995<\/li>\n<li>eCircles, 2001<\/li>\n<li>MySpace, Facebook, Twitter<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Era of Social Functionality (started 2007, matures in 2010-2012)<\/strong><br \/>\nThese are prelimnary examples, but are not examples of maturity, as we&#8217;ve not seen true useful utilities to improve business.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/\">Facebook&#8217;s F8 Platform<\/a>, May 2007<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/apis\/opensocial\/\">Google and partners Open Social<\/a>, Nov 2007<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.linkedin.com\/2008\/10\/28\/announcing-applications-on-linkedin\/\">LinkedIn&#8217;s business platform<\/a>, Oct 2008<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Era of Social Colonization (started 2009, matures in 2011)<\/strong><br \/>\nThese are prelimnary examples, but are not examples of maturity when your entire digital experience is social.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/beacon\/faq.php\">Facebook Beacon<\/a>, Nov 2007<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/developers.facebook.com\/news.php?blog=1&#038;story=108\">Facebook Connect<\/a>, over 4000 sites, like SFgate, Techcrunch, May 2008<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/weblife\/?p=533\">Facebook&#8217;s Activity Feed<\/a>, April 2009\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/12\/understanding-open-stack-the-connective-tissue-of-the-social-web\/\">OpenStack&#8217;s OAuth and OpenID<\/a>, thanks Matt Savarino<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.web-strategist.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/11\/get-glue-enters-into-the-era-of-social-colonization\/\">I reviewed Get Glue<\/a> which is a meta social network that aggregates social reviews from your friends &#8211;regardless of location.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insidefacebook.com\/2009\/05\/18\/facebook-launches-openid-support-users-can-now-login-with-a-gmail-account\/\">Facebook has agreed to support OpenID, May 2009<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.joystiq.com\/2009\/06\/01\/facebook-twitter-on-xbox-live-this-fall\/\">Xbox Live to integrate Twitter and Facebook, June 2009<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Era of Social Context (starts in 2010, matures in 2012)<\/strong><br \/>\nThis era is certainly not in maturity, but we can see some early examples of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/epicenter\/2009\/04\/your-facebook-profile-makes-marketers-dreams-come-true\/\">demographic scraping<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are no current examples<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Era of Social Commerce (starts in 2011, matures in 2013)<\/strong><br \/>\nThese are prelimnary examples, such as Techcrunch&#8217;s crunchpad, but it&#8217;s not a true example of a crowd created, spec&#8217;d product.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>There are no current examples<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As you see examples, please leave a comment, describe why you think it belongs and which era, I&#8217;ll credit you as appropriate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&rsquo;s post on the Future of the Social Web has created a tremendous amount of discussion &ndash;and I&rsquo;m thankful for all the voices that chimed in. I&rsquo;m going to create this post to track the eras as they appear, obviously this is going to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/01\/running-list-of-the-five-eras-of-the-social-web\/\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Running List of the Five Eras of The Social Web<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-future-of-social-web","category-industry-index"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web-strategist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}