I’m out in sunny Cali today attending the Economics of Social Media conference. Very excited to hear from industry leaders like:
Shawn Gold from Myspace. Perhaps he’ll talk about how they resolved the recent spat with Photobucket? And I’ve been hearing more and more lately from kids who lose interest in MySpace and move to Facebook as they get older. Is this really happening? Are the younger kids filling in from underneath? Or are other “niche” communities chipping away at the big tuna? I also wonder if he’ll shave for his appearance here today 
Michael Birch from Bebo. I don’t know anything about Bebo other than I hear it’s great and growing fast. It’ll be interesting to learn how they’re doing it.
David Eun, VP Content Partnerships, Google Unlike the guys above, I’d like to hear from David about how he does what he does. I’m starting to chat with folks about content partnerships with our new site (mycolts.net), which will launch in beta beta beta later this month.
In between sessions I’ll be meeting with various friends I’ve already made in this wacky 2.0 “space”, and I’m looking forward to seeing technologies from companies like LiveHive Systems, FanRocket and kickapps.
Another cool conference you get to attend, if you weren’t blogging I’d really be jealous.
As for the whole empty nest syndrome people worry about myspace suffering :
More than half of myspace visitors are now over 35
Granted that’s now an “ancient” article, but since my own mother is asking about MySpace (seriously? yes amazingly enough) Maybe the age is still moving up. Things are never quite as cool once your parents think it’s cool.
I actually have experienced first-hand proof that ‘older’ people are moving from myspace to facebook… I’ve been in a fantasy baseball keeper league of 18 members for a number of years and am the youngest owner as I am in college. I got an email alerting me to a new friend request on facebook the other day. It was the commissioner of my league… he’s 35… and all of his 20 or some odd friends are in their 30’s as well and recent additions to facebook.
I was pretty amused nonetheless.