Michael Nielsen » Shirky’s Law and why (most) social software fails
Shirky’s Law states that the social software most likely to succeed has “a brutally simple mental model … that’s shared by all users”. ….. You can give friends a simple and compelling explanation of these sites in seconds …. The great majority either fail to obey Shirky’s Law, or else are knockoffs that do little not already done by an existing site.
3 years ago