RE:CAPITALIZING ON THE PHOTOSHARING SOCIAL MEDIA TREND
Promoters would like to seduce you with such keywords as "current valuation" of a certain sector, "hot", "massive", "giant" ect...but be very aware that it absolutly does not mean "hot" opportunities, "massive" opportunities, "giant " opportunities.....as those words can only be attributed to that sector NOT the company trying to do the same...the company trying to do the same will not automaticly inherit those keywords just because that sector has those qualities
The hotter a sector, the more competition a company will have to cut through to be noticed, hence originality and enough money to promote are the two most important factors
Trying to imitate something that is already huge will not work most of the time....
Just because a sector is "hot" will not make it "hot" for the company trying to embark in that same sector...
If it is "hot" it is partly because it is massively popular with fierce competition...
As an analogy, although the movie making sector is a hot one, even if you are the top actor/actress in your class it will not make you a superstar making millions just because there are actors/actresses making that much. Because quite simply, the competition is unimaginely fierce. Therefore do not get seduce by the big social media money makers. There are very specific reason why they got there for which 10s, 100s of millions of users is one of them reasons.
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The recently announced spideranderson.com, fotoyapp and all past fanhubs have one thing in common. They are all "Social Network Aggregators".
Here are definitions and models on the subject from various respectable sources:
Babylon
Social network aggregation is the process of collecting content from multiple
social network services, such as
MySpace or
Facebook, into one unified presentation. The task is often performed by a social network aggregator, which pulls together information into a single location, or helps a user consolidate multiple social networking profiles into one profile. Various aggregation services provide tools or
widgets to allow users to consolidate messages, track friends, combine bookmarks, search across multiple social networking sites, read
RSS feeds for multiple social networks, see when their name is mentioned on various sites, access their profiles from a single interface, provide "lifestreams", etc. Social network aggregation services attempt to organize or simplify a user's social networking experience, although the idea has been satirized by the concept of a "social network aggregator aggregator."
https://www.babylon.com/definition/Social%20network%20aggregation/
Wikipedia
Social network aggregation platforms allow social-network members to share social-network activities like
Twitter,
YouTube,
Stumbleupon,
Digg,
Delicious, with other major platforms. All content appears in real time to other members who subscribe to a particular community, which eliminates the need to jump from one
social media network to another, trying to keep an eye on one's interests.
[5]
Social network aggregation systems can rely on initiation by publishers or by readers. In the publisher-initiated aggregation systems, the publishers combine their own identities, which make their readers see all aggregated content once subscribed. In the reader-initiated systems (such as
Windows Phone 7 people hub
[6] and Linked Internet UI,
[7]) the readers combine the identities of others, which has no impact to the publishers or other readers. The publishers can still keep separate identities for different readers.
Technically, the aggregation is enabled by
APIs provided by social networks. For the API to access a user's actions from another platform, the user will have to give permission to the social-aggregation platform, by specifying user-id and password of the social media to be syndicated. This concept resembles
open id.
[8] In March 2008,
The Economist reported that
social network services are only beginning the move away from "walled gardens" to more open architectures. Some sites are working together on a "data portability workgroup", while others are focusing on a single sign-on system called
OpenID to allow users to log on across multiple sites. Historically the trend from private services to more open ones can be seen across many Internet services from email and instant messaging to the move that early
online service providers made to become websites.
[9] The
OpenSocial initiative aims to bridge the member overlap between various online social network services.
[10]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_aggregation
Pinterest
Social network aggregation is the process of collecting content from multiple social network services, such as MySpace or Facebook, into one unified presentation.
https://www.pinterest.com/rellesor/social-network-aggregation/
Now do you still believe that INT make novelties?
Google has even a patent application on the idea:
https://www.google.com/patents/US7886000
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and some more:
https://en.mention.com/
https://www.rebelmouse.com/
https://www.cyfe.com/
https://ming.ly/
The following is aggregating news stories (this has been done since the beginning of internet)
https://storify.com/
Translation is no big deal anymore, google api can take care of translating your pages in your chosen language
If you are still not convince...google "Social Network Aggregation" with the quotes....you'll get over 180,000 links about the subject. Here the link for you:
https://www.google.ca/search?ie=ISO-8859-1&hl=en-CA&source=hp&q=+%22Social+Network+Aggregation%22&gbv=2&oq=+%22Social+Network+Aggregation%22&gs_l=heirloom-hp.12...0.0.0.475208.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0....0...1ac..34.heirloom-hp..0.0.0.YKiZvseML6M
The idea is not new......it is very old (well as old as the internet)
You can aggregate any social stream that you want in such a way that you could basically create a Selena Gomez , a marroon 5, or anything you want into one single area and call it anything you want. After that just attached google tranlation api you're done. The internet is filled with that stuff. Those are just hubs among millions of them and you don't need permission from anyone to do those as long as you don't defame them.