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By: 花花的碎语闲言 » Blog Archive » 社会化网络的类型，动机和未来

花花的碎语闲言 » Blog Archive » 社会化网络的类型，动机和未来 — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 04:52:07 +0000

[...] 在别的网络里，信任则更加重要而这些网络则很容易转变为“封闭的社区”。最近TechCrunch狠狠的挖苦嘲笑了一个新推出的封闭的模特的社区（geek和模特融不到一起去？（让我联想到一秀：Beauty and the Geek））。但不管怎么说，我完全能理解为什么模特们户ixuanze一个封闭的社区而不希望其他的路人甲乙丙丁在一旁时刻偷窥你的一举一动。这会是很大媒体爆炒的对象么？不，但这确实能满足一种基本的需求，也可以在所面对的利基市场中找到生存之地。这是经典的“专业爱好者出版物”这也是一个数以百亿计的市场。 [...]

By: bicicanarias.com » Blog Archive » Ridículo: ¿Eres guap@? Entonces tu red social es ModelHotel

Tue, 25 Dec 2007 07:06:07 +0000

[...] espero que los consigan para poder seguir riéndome de ellos antes de que desaparezcan”, afirma Arrington [...]

By: Information Squid » Blog Archive » How to charge for your social network

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 06:20:48 +0000

[...] community” for models from top agencies, profiled in the Wall Street Journal and then on TechCrunch in September. As the Journal says, “It’s this promise of exclusivity that is drawing [...]

By: Social Network Types, Motivations, and the Future at aoortic! dot com

Social Network Types, Motivations, and the Future at aoortic! dot com — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:12:57 +0000

[...] therefore be more like “gated communities.” Recently TechCrunch panned and ridiculed a gated community for models (geeks and models don’t mix well?). However, I completely get why models might want a gated [...]

By: Johnnie

Johnnie — Fri, 14 Sep 2007 03:24:15 +0000

I wanna site for fugly people.

By: atanu

atanu — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 17:17:22 +0000

Not sure what i found more offensive/ laughable/ or laughably offensive…the site keeping out all us “creepy people”, or Eric at #21 saying we “bitter-nerds” need to be more mature. I think I’ll opt for the second. Here’s my bitter boot for lodging into your mature beautiful ass.

By: Jon

Jon — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 05:12:09 +0000

Beauty is such a subjective thing that any type of classification is fraught with heavy bias… I have to admit that most models are nothing special but the connections they (parents) established and “marketed”.

I have seen some amazing looking women working at checkout counters or other labor intensive jobs that would easily rival some of the magazine spreads I have seen.

Jon

By: Saagar

Saagar — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 01:10:58 +0000

Well said Mike, anything that has no scope for ‘widening’ has its end clearly marked at ‘Deadpool’

By: MakeSense

MakeSense — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:33:05 +0000

at this point it only takes pennies from a rupert murdoch or some other media tycoon to snap up modelshotel before they even get VC

By: Stacy_bates

Stacy_bates — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 23:23:40 +0000

Modelshotel.com seems to be the next way of web 2.0 at the moment. It seems like advertisers are moving away from the mass networks and focusing more on the niche. What better business model is there than getting the “trendsetters” to wear the brands they want to make popular for the season? Starting trends, marketing products is a multi-billion dollar annual industry. If modelshotel.com can run away with a few million of that each year..watch out.

By: Aydin Mirzaee

Aydin Mirzaee — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:43:38 +0000

“which I honestly hope they raise so that I can continue to make fun of them (and their VCs) before eventually depositing them in the Deadpool” –> too funny

Aydin.

By: Dominic

Dominic — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:25:16 +0000

Anand

Are you kidding? Mike has all of a sudden become the ‘ non-establishment ‘ and fancies himself to be very cool these days. Can you say middle age crisis?

By: Anand

Anand — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 22:06:44 +0000

First you call it a ‘hot’ new social network, and then you also talk about depositing them in the deadpool.

Why are you so sarcastic in your posts these days?

By: Ben Strackany

Ben Strackany — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:29:11 +0000

You know, I thought the code looked familiar. They’re running AlstraSoft E-Friends. $300/year commerical SNS software. It looks barely tweaked. What’s their barrier to competition?

By: Model Citizen

Model Citizen — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:03:37 +0000

These profiles are great fun. Based on the member photos, I’m not sure how anyone was denied from getting in.

Check this one out:
http://modelsho...rd&p_id=357

Quote: “I’m eating recess peices peanut butter cups in my hotel room…”

Great fun thanks to #8 for the link in.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 20:07:00 +0000

Please, models don’t hang out with models…they hang out with regular people because it makes them look better in comparison.

By: Gud Dan Man

Gud Dan Man — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:45:28 +0000

Why don’t they just get a myspace page?

By: Lavi

Lavi — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:16:34 +0000

I am a Dick Model. Can I join????

By: Generic Guy

Generic Guy — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 19:07:10 +0000

I wonder how many models read?

By: Darren

Darren — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:37:03 +0000

Heh, you said ‘thinly populated’ and you’re talking about a site for models. Heh.

By: Bill W.

Bill W. — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:30:00 +0000

ModelsHotel really needs better security.

Check this out:

http://modelsho...php?mode=events

You can see all of the “private parties” and events that they don’t want real people showing up to.

By: alex

alex — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:28:00 +0000

Talk about an ugly website.
I guess they figured the models would make up for the poor design.

By: Bill W.

Bill W. — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:26:53 +0000

Yeah, but TC doesn’t call the people who aren’t invited to the conference, “creepy.”

It’s probably because the “creepy” people are the ones who are AT the conference.

By: James Thomas

James Thomas — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 18:24:31 +0000

If Bill Gates can be a model, we all can.

By: Amar Rama

Amar Rama — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:50:24 +0000

– “Poor models. It’s good that they have a place to hide from the creepy people (i.e., the rest of the population).”

Are you kidding? Isn’t this like the pot calling the kettle black. Do you invite the “rest of the population” to the TechCrunch conferences? I am not saying you should, I am just saying people are always discriminating and being selective (albeit unconsciously) because of the limitations on time and energy. I think it is kind of silly to think the models are being snobby because they want a private place.

Btw, I don’t know any models, never thought of becoming a model and am a geek by profession. Though I do think Zoolander is a wicked funny movie.
I just think maybe you are getting a little too much on your high horse here Good luck coming down before it is too late.