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... and the third one could start now. It seems that ipernity is being more and more an own community. For the first time I noticed that more blog posts are about ipernity (854) than about flickr (819) (of course not including an unknown number of posts avoiding the word 'flickr' and using some abbreviations...).

On the other hand anything settles down. Lea ipernity has increased the number of her contacts by about 1000, the week before it was 2000. The number of pictures is constantly increasing, again 100000 new pictures. I think mainly caused by the mass import tool. So some people have transfered their whole stream.

On the other hand I noticed the some people have left ipernity again. Their pages doesn't exist anymore. And I noticed some inactivity on some accounts for more than one week, while they are still active on flickr. So it's difficult to say if the effective number of people is really increasing or stabilized or maybe also decreasing.

Speaking of my own ipernity experience I must say it's more and more positive. The network (due to the superior communication possibilities here) is growing and growing. The exchange with, which was limited on flickr often to 'wow' and 'wow, too', is much more intense and personal. Compared to the total numbers of contacts and members at flickr, reduced possibilities to spread your images in the community, the response is really very high. The number of daily visitors has doubled since last week, soon reaching a value of 100 a day and maybe I'll see the number thousand of total visitors already this weekend. And also the response to certain pictures is high. The first ones have gained more than 100 hundred views in total, or more than 50 different people visiting a certain picture. That's very encouraging, cause to see appreciation to your work is the most motivating thing to go on. And beside bare numbers, the average quality of every single comment is much higher compared to flickr.

And not only the response to the pictures is encouraging, it's also fine that the blog is being visited, read and commented. About 20 (long and meaningful) comments, more than 100 visitors for my last entry. That makes me happy.

So I'll stay on here. Let's see how it will go on...

Some word more about statistics (sorry I'm addicted to this since my childhood...). I like the fact, that ipernities statistics really counts people and not just total numbers. To see that really a lot of different people  are viewing and commenting on your stream is much more meaningful, than anonymous numbers, maybe caused by the same small group of people.

To have  a name and an image connected with a visitor is, even I think so, a key for the success of the networking here. It shifts the communication here on a more personal level. If I can noticed that a certain person i coming again and again to visit my stream or watching my pictures, even not leaving a fav or a comment behind, will help to keep him or her in mind, and motivates you to make a visit in return.

That's enough about the second week. Let's wait for the next one