Social networks starting to move towards richer interaction models

Posted by murat on Monday, August 25, 2008 · 2 Comments 

Hi5 today announced that they will integrate an embedded virtual world platform that they had acquired earlier this year into their service.

Hi5 is one of the most popular social networks and its userbase is mostly outside the US. They clearly see the value in having their users interact with each other more in real-time, rather than the current bulleting-board-like model where a user posts something and you see when you ‘refresh’ your page.

With a dynamic real-time interaction model like Unype, users do not have to refresh their homepage or relogin to the service to see what is new. Each new action, post and event is propagated to all live clients in real-time. Unype’s backend has been fine-tuned to support just that.

We are looking forward to seeing more social networks develop and employ more real-time interaction models.

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2 Responses to “Social networks starting to move towards richer interaction models”
  1. Robert Green says:
    May 25, 2009 at 9:26 am

    Great points, I agree!

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