I have been a member of Microsoft’s IT Advisory Council for quite some time now and I am really impressed with the community response for Microsoft related issues and discussion.
The IT Advisory Council is a select group of IT Professionals and Developers, which purpose is to share your views, ideas and opinions, helping Microsoft shape future initiatives. As a member, you play an integral part in providing the ITAC and Microsoft with feedback on Microsoft customer offerings, licensing, support, marketing materials and community initiatives.
Members communicate with each other via an online portal and a program of face-to-face and online events. Each event is currently limited to 12 members to ensure rich discussion and members will be eligible to participate based on a point-system in the portal. Membership also involves completing a monthly online ‘task’, which can be completing a mini-survey or sharing member experiences on the portal forums and blogs to help Microsoft understand what it’s like to be in Microsoft “expert” shoes.
The ITAC is a locked community meaning that just not anyone can join and participate. The ITAC offers an application process for anyone interested to join. After you complete the application process your information is reviewed by a board of administrators and moderators and you are notified within a week whether your accepted.
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I always saw this coming but of coarse there isn’t an exact measurement for who has more traffic, I can only rely on Alexa.com, Compete.com, and a couple other analytical tools. There is a lot of buzz right now about how Facebook has more traffic than Myspace using Alexa.com & Compete.com - that buzz is wrong.
What I think? FaceBook dominates MySpace up and down - for the time being that is. A lot of people claim that the 1 dimensional page like FaceBook and MySpace will soon be a thing of the past and 3D worlds will become an everyday thing. I completely disagree - 3D worlds take too long to load and waste a lot of time (finding people, communicating, etc); white pages like Facebook get to the point and do a great job at it. Cars have 4 wheels and work great, do you think future cars will have more wheels? Probably not but I bet the features and efficiency of cars in the future will be much greater. Catch my drift?
The future of social networks will be more efficient, right to the point, and even faster. Do you think I am wrong? Fill me in on what I’ve missed and where you think social networks will go.
BTW I think MySpace blows. ;)
Facebook set to overtake MySpace? by ZDNet’s Dion Hinchcliffe — Mainstream social networks continue to grow at a staggering pace in 2007 as they offer users compelling ways to manage and leverage their relationships with each other online. MySpace and Facebook continue to lead the pack as the two most popular social networking sites but for the first time, it also seems fairly clear that Facebook will soon overtake MySpace in overall usage, particularly as it offers a richer overall platform powered by a large and vibrant community of 3rd party application developers.
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