Are The New Wave Of Web 2Niche networks are the new wave of Web 2 spawning from Facebook and Myspace. Their adoption is growing because they are suited to niche communities, like IT Professionals, catered for by itLinks.com and school communities, catered for by SchoolBridge.com
Small communities don't need the casual style of large social networks and do better with a social niche platform targeted to them. It's a business model suitable to a myriad of niche communities. Marc Horne and Hollis Carter, who started SchoolBridge, envision the coming of a social network empire.
They developed Schoolbridge from the ground up for themselves, but that project inspired them to offer the Schoolbridge platform to the world. SNE was born in 2008 and taken to market in November.
SNE has been designed with a lean interface, but it can be customized to suit the look and design suited to the particular niche, as can be seen here: http://www.imsocialize.com/
SNE is suited to a myriad of niches, like school communities, sports clubs, dating, craft circles, entertainers, etc.
SNE as a network platform for niche communities creates a marketing opportunity ideal for the niche marketers. And the trend for niche communities is there.
Explore SNE at work here: www.schoolbridge.com
