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[edit] Facebook vs. MySpace
http://www.insidefacebook.com/2007/06/19/facespace-users-fight-back/.
While the majority of the world basically loves the Facebook app platform, whether due to hype-blinding or no, a growing number of users (perhaps necessitated simply statistically) are disgruntled. At least two well-attended groups (here and here) have been created in opposition to the free creation and proliferation of apps, due to a fear that Facebook will turn into the garish mish-mash of design and functionality that is MySpace.
One group has even taken to writing “Anti-Reviews” of the most despised (most Myspace-like) apps, humorously pointing out the (from the perspective of the writer) childish ways in which the apps are generally being used. Top Friends, as you’d imagine, gets roundly chided, for, as it appears, nothing more than being a Myspace feature ported to Faceboook.
Users who feel this strongly about such apps are undoubtedly a majority [probably meant: minority], and this counter-platform movement is certainly not going to have any long-lasting traction. However, it is interesting to note that here is yet another example of the power Facebook is giving third-party developers in the form of their platform–now their good name is being tarnished (in the eyes of however few) because someone else has decided to add an application they don’t like. The user experience is indeed different, even for one who doesn’t install any apps–their friends might choose to do “horrible” things to their profile.
Facebook is (I think rightly) betting that the benefit will outweigh this potential negative.
[edit] Facebook
Michael Arrington (2007-05-24). Facebook Launches Facebook Platform; They are the Anti-MySpace (http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05/24/facebook-launches-facebook-platform-they-are-the-anti-myspace/).
Facebook is holding a massive press/developer event today in San Francisco to officially launch Facebook Platform. 750 or so people are here.A number of third party applications will also be announced, including Microsoft, Amazon, Slide, RockYou, Box.net, Red Bull, Washington Post, Project Agape, Prosper, Snapvine, iLike, PicksPal, Digg, Plum and others. Seventy companies in total are currently developing applicaitons. [...]
Facebook is giving an unprecedented amount of access to developers. The API would allow, for example, a third party to recreate Facebook Photos, the most used photo application on the web. Users could then remove the default Facebook Photos and install the third party version instead.
Applications can serve their own ads and/or conduct transactions with users. Ads can basically be shown anywhere that Microsoft ads are not currently shown.
There will be a special applications area on Facebook where users can browse and add third party apps. But there is also a crucial viral component - when a friend adds an application, it is noted in their news stream on their profile. Clicking on the item brings you to the app, where you can add and/or interact with it yourself.
Users will also be adding applications to their site, where others can click and add it to their own profile. The apps will essentially look like any other Facebook application.
The payoff is two way. Not only do developers get deep access to Facebook’s twenty million users, Facebook also becomes a rich platform for third party applications.
Facebook’s strategy is almost the polar opposite from MySpace. While MySpace frets over third party widgets, alternatively shutting them down or acquiring them, Facebook is now opening up its core functions to all outside developers.
[edit] Notes from Zuckerberg Keynote:
Facebook is growing 3% per week, which is 100,000 new users per day.
The fastest growing demographic is the 25 and up age group.
50% of registered users come back to the site every day.
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Facebook is generating more than 40 billion page views per month. That’s 50 pages per user every day.
6th most trafficked site in the U.S.
More page views than eBay. Says they are targeting Google next.
Applications: photos, groups, events. Plug into profiles. Use all the real connections people have.
Their photos app is by far the number one photo site on the internet.
Events: similar story. 3x more people invited to events through Facebook than evite.
Says these apps work so well because of the “social graph” - a network of connections through which people share information with friends.
The news feed feature in particular allows information to be pushed out through the social network to more people, faster than any time in history.
Deep integration, significant freedom to monetize via ads and transactions.
[edit] MySpace
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[edit] LinkedIn
(professional networking)
http://www.linkedin.com/home LinkedIn: Relationships Matter
