the social median interview: Mark Maunder

My name is: Mark Maunder

My online profile of choice can be found at: http://markmaunder.com/

The abc's about me (bio in 3 sentences):
-a. I run Feedjit.com. We serve 1 million widgets per day.
-b. I'm a serial entrepreneur on my 7th tech startup.
-c. I used to paint cranes for a living.

My take on Social Media...

What's hot:

• Distributed social graphs like MyBlogLog tried to be and like the one Brad Fitzpatrick is working on at Google.

What's not:

• Facebook apps. Launching an app in a sandbox where the average CTR is 0.04% and where you are subject to Facebook's strategic whims is a long shot and should only be used in concert with a much broader strategy.

What's good:

• The thing that everyone else isn't doing.

What's bad:

• The thing that everyone else is doing - like vertical social networking.

What's next:

• We're only scratching the surface of what's possible via distributed Javascript apps loaded in real-time - like Feedjit for example. Few people think of AdSense, Google Maps API or Analytics as widgets - but that's all they are.
  
• Tools like Prototype have made it possible to write rock solid Javascript code that is cross browser and cross-OS compatible. Watch this space.