Facebook is mean.
At Facebook, ‘Friending’ and ‘Liking’ are just for the users.
To take over the World Wide Web, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. It’s now personal and thermonuclear.
The bloggers are giddy with predictions of Facebook winning it all. Please. The internet is in inning 3. The mobile web is in inning 2.
Nobody has won anything, but a lot of money is changing hands again and a Tony Montana like thirst for power is starting to surface. Unfortuneately, there is just a lot less ‘cooncha’ and machine guns which will make for a boring ‘period’ piece when it’s over.
Until my ‘Social Graph’ can fix Verizon and ATT and make all kind of videos just work on my iPhone and iPad, Facebook will trade with a $5 spread.
In the meantime, it is Apple’s world.
In the long term – you're not going to dominate with “them” & “us” or segmenting people.
Define a pipeline that works with others and let the platform shine.
I’m curious about the demographic of the Facebook user. I spend a lot of time on the Internet and usually only log onto Facebook every 2-3 weeks. Facebook is ok, but it is not a “killer app” for me. The one great feature Facebook has is that I’ll see on email I have a friend request from someone that I knew in the 6th grade. I’m curious what they are doing and that type of thing. But in terms of the wall, most of that is garbage conversation about someone taking their kid for a recital or someone got back from vacation. I’m not really too interested in that.
Then there is the spam problem. Spam is not any better even if it comes from family, friends or an acquaintance. Now I get email saying become a fan of this cause, that group or get behind such and such business.
Maybe I’m old school. But I still like the web, Google search, and Apple’s reliable and easy GUIs. But maybe I just don’t get Facebook yet. I was one of the last few people that held onto Dos as long as I could.
fred linked to this great thought.
i think that facebook has avoided many fights so far other than twitter which they can live with/handle.
http://continuations.com/post/540718931/facebook-and-the-net
In the long term – you’re not going to dominate with “them” & “us” or segmenting people.
Define a pipeline that works with others and let the platform shine.
I'm curious about the demographic of the Facebook user. I spend a lot of time on the Internet and usually only log onto Facebook every 2-3 weeks. Facebook is ok, but it is not a “killer app” for me. The one great feature Facebook has it that I'll see on email I have a friend request from someone that I knew in the 6th grade. I'm curious what they are doing and that type of thing. But in terms of the wall, most of that is garbage conversation about someone taking their kid for a recital or someone got back from vacation. I'm not really too interested in that.
Then there is the spam problem. Spam is not any better even if it comes from family, friends or an acquaintance. Now I get email saying become a fan of this cause, that group or get behind such and such business.
Maybe I'm old school. But I still like the web, Google search, and Apple's reliable and easy GUIs. But maybe I just don't get Facebook yet. I was one of the last few people that held onto Dos as long as I could.
everyone’s making judgments about web platforms based on their personal preferences, but they neglect all the college, high school, and junior hs kids that are using it today all around the world. THEY are the future of the internet though. global generational pull.
mike lazerow’s right on the money – long buddy media!
great points. keep the thinking simple. also the old farts.
fred linked to this great thought.
i think that facebook has avoided many fights so far other than twitter which they can live with/handle.
http://continuations.com/post/540718931/faceboo…
great points. keep the thinking simple. also the old farts.
everyone's making judgments about web platforms based on their personal preferences, but they neglect all the college, high school, and junior hs kids that are using it today all around the world. THEY are the future of the internet though. global generational pull.
mike lazerow's right on the money – long buddy media!
Facebook, and sentiment collecting is a middleman. If I like a post of yours I stop in and say “this post kicked ass, go crush some more enemies and kick up the lamentation of za vomen”
how could clicking a Like button compete with that glorious admiration?
I don’t even trade stocks.
Speaking of which do you have a gorilla marketing affiliate program? I’d like to become a part time $tocktwit$ missionary. There are people in this world without Internet and Stocktwits, and sitting on mountains of money to invest. They need to be shown the one true path to make money off of the rest of the irrational market. I take payments of dollar value Wendy’s burgers and delusions of grandeur.
i have told danile at disqus this forever. i will probably never like
things because the word has no style or meaning to me when surfing. i want
it to be more personal
Whoa, good point. I’ve been a little hypocritical in my Disqus Liking comments forever. If I see signal or something sparks my interest I click it, relentlessly. I’ve liked 1946 comments, make that 1947 I just liked your comment.
I use Disqus’ Like as an information filter on comments so that other visitors that only skim comment streams can get the best stuff first. It’s like who’s line is it anyway, where the points don’t matter. Maybe it comes down to trust. I have an instinctive trust for Daniel’s use of sentiment data because I can easily port my data out of Disqus, and other people can immediately benefit from collective Like ordering of comments. Who knows, maybe Mr. Ha and team will open up Disqus comments to anyone who wants to play with the sentiment data?
we do neeed a gorilla marketing affiliate program. ping me about that
Facebook, and sentiment collecting is a middleman. If I like a post of yours I stop in and say “this post kicked ass, go crush some more enemies and kick up the lamentation of za vomen”
how could clicking a Like button compete with that glorious admiration?
I don't even trade stocks.
Speaking of which do you have a gorilla marketing affiliate program? I'd like to become a part time $tocktwit$ missionary. There are people in this world without Internet and Stocktwits, and sitting on mountains of money to invest. They need to be shown the one true path to make money off of the rest of the irrational market. I take payments of dollar value Wendy's burgers and delusions of grandeur.
i have told danile at disqus this forever. i will probably never like
things because the word has no style or meaning to me when surfing. i want
it to be more personal
we do neeed a gorilla marketing affiliate program. ping me about that
Whoa, good point. I've been a little hypocritical in my Disqus Liking comments forever. If I see signal or something sparks my interest I click it, relentlessly. I've liked 1946 comments, make that 1947 I just liked your comment.
I use Disqus' Like as an information filter on comments so that other visitors that only skim comment streams can get the best stuff first. It's like who's line is it anyway, where the points don't matter. Maybe it comes down to trust. I have an instinctive trust for Daniel's use of sentiment data because I can easily port my data out of Disqus, and other people can immediately benefit from collective Like ordering of comments. Who knows, maybe Mr. Ha and team will open up Disqus comments to anyone who wants to play with the sentiment data?