Mashable Invites — Social Media Consulting — Web Strategy

I just discovered Mashable Invites. A cute idea. But brings to light a bigger problem. Too many social media startups.

It is great there is so much happening, but how much real innovation is really going on? Not much I’m afraid. But this begs the question, how long will this continue? Will it increase? Will the big sites like Facebook and Myspace start to grab some of the tiny ones and integrate them?

Off the cuff, I can only imagine it will get worse. There will be more and more. And even as I wrote the sentence asking if the big social media platforms will grab up some of the smaller ones, I knew the anwer is no. And the reason it is no is stated above, very little innovation is happening.

Back to the drawing board. Invites anyone?

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