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This is a bad excuse. Today you can do a Facebook that lives in your own server. Your server living in your house and being a simple box that you can buy like

by pipio21 10y ago

This is a bad excuse. Today you can do a Facebook that lives in your own server. Your server living in your house and being a simple box that you can buy like a TV or car and is super easy to configure. I already have something like this, but it is complex to configure as it is not mass manufactured but custom made for me and a small environment of people. Everything else, an excuse for not working on finding solutions for the problems that you have to face, like with any engineering problem. Of course you can't replicate the work of more than 500 programmers(facebook) with just one person, but you can go far reusing open source components and coordinating the work of other people. Instead of trying to replicate facebook(a clone), focus on making something useful for the people getting advantage of distributed computers. Facebook did not try to replicate myspace. For example, focus on networks that PAY real money for having a social media they can control(companies).

walterbell 10y ago
> For example, focus on networks that PAY real money for having a social media they can control(companies) What are some examples of companies or vertical markets that would pay for control that is missing at FB? Publishers seem to be looking for new revenue sources, not control. Are you thinking of advertisers? There aren't many proprietary content distribution networks. Bloomberg is one example. Note that P2P may conflict with a "control" objective. Synology NAS has valiantly built a standalone networked home server, complete with NAT hole punching (they run a central broker) and usable "sharing" and "consumption" mobile apps that connect to your home NAS. They earn revenue on hardware sales, similar to iX Systems and FreeNAS. Synology has an OSS pseudo-clone called XPnology, which is apparently compatible with Synology's free mobile apps. Tanium has a billion-dollar valuation for endpoint management and surveillance, allegedly with P2P techniques: http://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2015/04/15/meet-tanium-the-secret-cybersecurity-weapon-of-target-visa-and-amazon/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2015/04/15/meet-tan... & https://kb.tanium.com/Unmanaged_Assets https://kb.tanium.com/Unmanaged_Assets
pjc50 10y ago
Various people have tried to charge for "social media within the company", and I think the only one that's really been successful is Slack. Maybe Bloomberg chat and Skype count (although comms is not the same as a social network).
pessimizer 10y ago
> Facebook did not try to replicate myspace. No, Facebook tried to replicate Friendster (fairly slavishly), as Myspace was getting popular. The only reason Facebook caught on was 1) by starting with college kids, and 2) building it as a platform that other business could build on.

by pipio21 10y ago

walterbell 10y ago

> For example, focus on networks that PAY real money for having a social media they can control(companies) What are some examples of companies or vertical markets that would pay for control that is missing at FB? Publishers seem to be looking for new revenue sources, not control. Are you thinking of advertisers? There aren't many proprietary content distribution networks. Bloomberg is one example. Note that P2P may conflict with a "control" objective. Synology NAS has valiantly built a standalone networked home server, complete with NAT hole punching (they run a central broker) and usable "sharing" and "consumption" mobile apps that connect to your home NAS. They earn revenue on hardware sales, similar to iX Systems and FreeNAS. Synology has an OSS pseudo-clone called XPnology, which is apparently compatible with Synology's free mobile apps. Tanium has a billion-dollar valuation for endpoint management and surveillance, allegedly with P2P techniques: http://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2015/04/15/meet-tanium-the-secret-cybersecurity-weapon-of-target-visa-and-amazon/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/briansolomon/2015/04/15/meet-tan... & https://kb.tanium.com/Unmanaged_Assets https://kb.tanium.com/Unmanaged_Assets

pjc50 10y ago

Various people have tried to charge for "social media within the company", and I think the only one that's really been successful is Slack. Maybe Bloomberg chat and Skype count (although comms is not the same as a social network).

pessimizer 10y ago

> Facebook did not try to replicate myspace. No, Facebook tried to replicate Friendster (fairly slavishly), as Myspace was getting popular. The only reason Facebook caught on was 1) by starting with college kids, and 2) building it as a platform that other business could build on.