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It’s not always easy being an Early Adopter

Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 1 July, 2008 to the technology subset

So if you meet an early adopter have some courtesy, have some sympathy, and some taste.

To be an early adopter of new web applications and specifically Web 2.0 social networks and User Generated Content (UGC) based sites like Norg, Twitter, Brightkite etc means that you come in before that site or network has reached critical mass. In fact - you join up when they’re still handing out single digit user IDs. And you stick with - even though the value of that site is clearly proportionate to the number of people using it, or rather the people relevant to your own expectations - be it geographic (like Brightkite) or interests (like Twitter).

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