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Just a few minutes ago I posted a personal notice about my thoughts after the Gulltaggen 2008 awards. I know it’s a bit ironic, however I checked the list of nominees for this years Webby awards, pretty long list of nominees, and I found a couple of sites I haven’t seen before and thought I could share.

Book Glutton is a community where you can read books with others, and comment paragraphs and discuss parts of the book with others. I do like the idea of communication; however I rarely read any books on my computer screen. When I read a book I‘m in bed, and I don’t bring my computer to bed. I just don’t. (Unless its Saturday or Sunday morning). You should still check it out.

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The other community that caught my attention was COLOURlovers.com. It’s a simple, easy community to exchange color palettes, patterns and so on. Being a horrible designer, I often stress finding the right color combinations, and finding palettes is something that takes a lot of time. This site was just simple, easy, neat and helpful.

Following the last post about Wireds note on the lack of income in social networks; Alex Burmaster (Nielsen Online) states the following to BBC Click: “The slow down in social networks is being somewhat exaggerated. It’s a natural form of any growth that we see in the online eco-system.”

Burmaster is the analyst which compiled the figures showing that there has been a 5% slowdown in new UK users to Facebook and MySpace between December 2007 and January this year.

BBC Click article: Evolution of the social network

The Norwegian company Colt Kommunikasjon did a somewhat similar study which they published a week ago. It shows that 50.000 (out of 1 070 000) Norwegian Facebook users left the social network from february to march (one month!).

Colt Kommunikasjon article (Norwegian): Nordmenn rømmer Facebook