Comments on: Take the Private Beta Approach, Since It’s Inherently Viral http://www.techipedia.com/2007/viral-marketing-private-betas/ tamar weinberg is a digital marketing specialist, social media consultant, and tech geek at heart Thu, 09 Feb 2012 15:06:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Invasive or Indispensable: The Case of Permanent GPS » Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg http://www.techipedia.com/2007/viral-marketing-private-betas/#comment-166248 Invasive or Indispensable: The Case of Permanent GPS » Techipedia | Tamar Weinberg Wed, 20 Oct 2010 13:02:03 +0000 http://www.techipedia.com/2007/viral-marketing-private-betas/#comment-166248 [...] Facebook launches in 2004 to a very select number of schools, and due to demand, increases its presence on other college campuses. You couldn’t join Facebook unless you had a college email address on a particular school’s domain, much to their prospective advertisers’ chagrin. (They couldn’t get their own personal accounts to check out what the appeal was.) This gave the social network a true exclusive feel and made people long for access. [...] [...] Facebook launches in 2004 to a very select number of schools, and due to demand, increases its presence on other college campuses. You couldn’t join Facebook unless you had a college email address on a particular school’s domain, much to their prospective advertisers’ chagrin. (They couldn’t get their own personal accounts to check out what the appeal was.) This gave the social network a true exclusive feel and made people long for access. [...]

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]]> By: Tamar Weinberg http://www.techipedia.com/2007/viral-marketing-private-betas/#comment-18368 Tamar Weinberg Thu, 16 Aug 2007 03:30:56 +0000 http://www.techipedia.com/2007/viral-marketing-private-betas/#comment-18368 I think that's the viral nature of it -- exclusivity, if you will. I don't really use Pownce anymore to befriend people I don't already know, but obviously, people use social networking systems in different ways. Some people want to meet people, while others just want to connect with people they already know in some form or another. On Pownce, you can search for friends for now, but that's it. You can also look at your friends' pages and see who they're friends with. But I hear your gripe. I guess that's what distinguishes the two services: one is a lot more open than the other, but after all, that one is out of private beta. ;) I think that’s the viral nature of it — exclusivity, if you will.

I don’t really use Pownce anymore to befriend people I don’t already know, but obviously, people use social networking systems in different ways. Some people want to meet people, while others just want to connect with people they already know in some form or another.

On Pownce, you can search for friends for now, but that’s it. You can also look at your friends’ pages and see who they’re friends with. But I hear your gripe. I guess that’s what distinguishes the two services: one is a lot more open than the other, but after all, that one is out of private beta. ;)

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