Is the graph to the left an indication of another social networking site crossing a threshold? The newish site MOLI just hit my radar as I was watching some graphs of recent Mover sites that aren't overnight spikes followed by a return to their former levels. This one has been on a steady climb for at least a few weeks.
I've seen enough of these things come along over time to recognize the initial pattern: social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace seem to toil in relative obscurity for a while, expanding from the people who work there and their families and friends to a larger audience with time. Then, something happens: a critical mass of those who are in the know sign on and they grow quickly. I wonder if that's what is happening with MOLI.
I am not big on social networking sites personally. I think that between my accounts on Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn, I have just enough connections to seem like a hermit. When YouTube came out with the tag-line "Broadcast yourself," I thought, "Well, whatever for?" I have a professional interest in these sites, but tend to prefer not to publish the quotidian, my quotidian. When the stories started coming out a couple of years ago about people leaving college and missing out on job opportunities because they were a bit to free with their personal details on such sites, I was comforted by my obscurity.
It seems MOLI might be a step in the right direction for those addicted to sharing personal details. Because the site allows you to manage multiple profiles using one account, the folks from the church social never have to know about the party animals you know--who in turn won't have any idea how boring your job is. However, because I can just see me posting my award-winning tuna casserole recipe to my social profile in a moment of reply-to-all oblivion, I think I just might stick with my journals.
Does MOLI have a niche?
11 comments:
Thanks for the heads up on MOLI.
It seems to be yet another addition to the social networking glut on the internet....as a business owner I appreciate having yet another link to my web site!
Will it surpass Facebook or My Space? Probably not.......the next big thing is going to be YELP.com (PR 7, Alexa 867).
bravo for Alexa... good job sir...
Actually, can you explain the curve of Moli? It starts grow April 1st and then it keeps the same exponential during exactly four weeks, then it stops abruptly. Does the curve reflects some internals of the new alexa ranking system, instead of accurately representing the usage of moli? Or did moli used some clever marketing trick exactly for four weeks? It seems a mistery.
I think it has what it takes to beat Facebook but not quite Myspace.
alexa veery good
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two weeks later, it has started to go down. I am fascinated.
It is going down, as any other Shaker. It is amazing. Can a M&S go up to between ranks 400 and 10000?? Please, keep reporting us about this case!
I'm not surprised. I have seen Moli in countless numbers of cheap pop-unders served by CPXinteractive and paypopup.
What is more, Alexa seems to be less accurate than before. For example, my website is very stable, with 150,000 visits and 700,000 page views per day, but sometimes it raises to 5,000 and sometimes it drops to 38,000 in Alexa Ranking.
Probably alexa has increased its vulnerability to pop-unders now that it is using different data sources. I suposse the alexa toolbar itself has some anti-pop-up mechanism, hasn't it?
I'd not say that moli is a stock scam, but it seems that they have invested strongly on undercover advertising. Djmc could tell us :-D
Does the curve reflects some internals of the new alexa ranking system, instead of accurately representing the usage of moli? Or did moli used some clever marketing trick exactly for four weeks
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Christos Cotsakos of Mainstream Holdings,Judy Balint of Moli, Jenn and account holders ALL took the curve to the bottom with the closing of MOLI GATES !!!
And now Yahoo has posted that Geocities are CLOSING ITS GATES too!
What seems so troublesome about it is that the operators offer no explanation to the reasoning behind it.
At least Geocities had the decency to pre-warn all that are logging in ahead of time, unlike Moli where one minutes its there and the next it isn't.
Only goes to prove if it seems to good to be true then it probably is.
Many will miss these sites, others will remain angry with these sites while yet others will disown their parents before it happens again to one of their precious babies.
For those grieving, take heart that you can have a site remain an active domain simply by creating your own rather than joining others' sites!
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