Comments on: How many Web services can one person use? http://chapter42.whitewhale.net/2008/09/18/how-many-web-services-can-one-person-use/ Fri, 05 Feb 2010 21:41:26 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Tony Stubblebine http://chapter42.whitewhale.net/2008/09/18/how-many-web-services-can-one-person-use/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Tony Stubblebine Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:03:16 +0000 http://chapter42.whaleblogs.net/?p=100#comment-32 I can answer that question from CrowdVine's perspective. We mostly serve conferences and the people who use us want to have a better conference experience by finding people to meet face-to-face and finding which sessions are hot. The networks are transient. Where we can offer it, people port their identities in and when they're done they port their new contacts out. I think this "how many web services" question is a good one for services that are targeted at leisure. But for more goal oriented tools like us, or like LinkedIn, the question should "what is the most effective tool?" I can answer that question from CrowdVine’s perspective. We mostly serve conferences and the people who use us want to have a better conference experience by finding people to meet face-to-face and finding which sessions are hot. The networks are transient. Where we can offer it, people port their identities in and when they’re done they port their new contacts out.

I think this “how many web services” question is a good one for services that are targeted at leisure. But for more goal oriented tools like us, or like LinkedIn, the question should “what is the most effective tool?”

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