Infrenion Networks Blog

The Internet is no different. It’s all driven by trends and is supported by fundamentals. The most important concept here is that trends affect the market temporarily, while fundamentals create a long-term movement. Trends are extremely hard to predict, while fundamentals are always clear, as long as you have a keen eye and can make some judgments.

Social networks are remodeling our real-life social interaction patterns, and it works. People seem to like the convenience of using the Internet to socialize, and even more so when it helps to connect with otherwise unreachable peers.

What Facebook (and any other large social network) is trying to create is a virtual world that would confine our online social interactions within itself, but the thing is that we already have such a world – it’s the Internet. We have one “real world” and one “virtual world.”

People should be able to visit places with their friends, or meet their/new friends at places. People should be able to grab their friends and move on to other places together… for we’re young and free.
Lots of bright minds are working day and night to make it happen and it will one day naturally blend in to our online lives. When that day comes, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Google+ will be gone for good.

Dolphin have a better idea of what should serve the next wave of niche social networks the best way. Dolphin 7 and much more so Dolphin 8 are (being) designed specifically for the purpose of driving niche social networks and they offer a great balance of rich functionality and ease of use. With Dolphin 8, plan to introduce a slew of improvements and services that will remain unmatched for years ahead, when it comes to building a niche community site. More importantly, the way building of Dolphin 8  is now decidedly different from anything you’ve seen today. They started to realize that this game is not so much about features and speed, it’s about making your site members smile and want to come back often. This new perspective produces wonderful results, which they are anxious to start sharing with us very soon.