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the Del.icio.us Lesson

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Joshua Porter is continuing the Structured Blogging (SB) conversation with Joe Reger. In thinking through what it will take for SB will take off or not, he's come up with an acid test, what he calls the Del.icio.us Lesson-

"From now on I’m going to call this idea the “Del.icio.us Lesson”. This is the lesson that personal value precedes network value: that selfish use comes before shared use. We’re seeing it more and more everyday in services like Del.icio.us, Flickr, and is an interesting aspect of networked applications. Even though we’re definitely benefitting from the value of networked software, we’re still not doing so unless the software is valuable to us on a personal level first. And I wonder, how will Google Base fare in light of this? What personal value are people getting out of it? Is it enough to make the service successful?"

Or:

Personal value >> Network effects >> Personal value

Tags: structured blogging

Comments

  • Anonymous
    December 22, 2005
    Yeah - the "del.icio.us lesson". I've been thinking about this for a while, but it's good to have a label for it. Or should that be a tag? :)
  • Anonymous
    April 23, 2006
    Stowe Boyd points (via David Weinberger) to a discussion regarding the potential of tagging within companies.Tagging...
  • Anonymous
    April 24, 2006
    PingBack from http://disruptivethoughts.com/2006/04/24/the-keystone-of-building-network-value/
  • Anonymous
    May 03, 2006
    Joshua Porter, who coined the term 'the Del.icio.us Lesson', has gone to the trouble of further articulating...