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Web Trends: Social Applications on the rise
Apr 28, 05:04 PM | Web-Design | 0 Comments
Back to BlogThe Morgan Stanley Web Trends report from March reveals a large increase in activity on Social Applications and online collaboration.
Websites come in all shapes and sizes these days, from individual blogs to gargantuan online stores, news websites, discussion forums, corporate websites and brochure websites.
But since Web 2.0 came along user activity on the web is changing and increasingly Social Networks and Social Applications are dominating user’s time online.
This Techcrunch post on Morgan Stanley’s March 2008 Web Trends Report goes into detail (beware: lots and lots of detail) on this behavioural shift which clearly shows the way things are going.
I for one welcome our new social network overlords – I’m a huge fan of social applications (and web applications in general) and actively use them (Facebook, Flickr and Last.fm in particular) as part of my daily routine these days, and I wouldn’t be anywhere near the most active of users (work gets in the way a bit…). Considering Digital Natives will likely use these social applications with much more frequency, the growth of this area over the next few years should be very interesting, especially for online businesses, web designers and web developers.
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