In this week’s TWiT #243, Kara Swisher of AllThingsD.com talks about how Google has often missed the mark in their social networking because they hold off releasing products form the Labs until they are completely satisfied that it can be automated 100%. Whereas, most of the successful social networking start-ups have heavily focused and even relied on what essentially makes up a social network: The Human Factor. When there is a key piece missing, newcomers like Foursquare and Twitter through some new bodies on the problem and in some cases even open up the front door, create some Super Users from folks on the street and roll with it.
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