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Posted: Nov 17th 2009 8:49PM (Unverified) said

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"that no longer gets any press"

Well said. I rather wished I'd come in during the "hype" part of the cycle, so for at least a few months I could have believed.

I will add, however, that the NY Times had featured a few SL-related stories of late.

For the record: I turned 10 in 1970...talk about missing a party! So the feeling is not that unusual.
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Posted: Nov 17th 2009 9:17PM (Unverified) said

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In my experience, the Gartner hype-cycle only looks that way for a subclass of things, and SL doesn't seem to be in that subclass, so the hype-cycle graph is inapplicable. Instead, you'll find that there's more of an variable sinusoidal that involves hype peaks 3-9 months apart. It's sort of what you get if you overlay a number of offset versions of Gartner's curve, one for each demographic.

There was never a single hype peak or trough for SL. There were multiple. Still are, though the amplitude is a bit lower.
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