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What has Facebook done that can be described as 'innovative' since the wall? Their only 2 decent products since then have been Connect and Like, neither of whi
by MatthewPhillips 15y ago
What has Facebook done that can be described as 'innovative' since the wall? Their only 2 decent products since then have been Connect and Like, neither of which were innovative (though they were good enough implementations to reach ubiquity). And they've released many products that are just down-right poor; Places is me-too and no one uses it, Messaging is just a mess, Groups is buried and unuseable... Facebook is riding off the network effect. It makes me wonder what exactly is going on there, as they have some of the best engineers in the world; why are they not putting out stellar product after stellar product? They've taken care of scaling already; what are these geniuses doing?
- whatusername 15y agoPhotos. With good tagging. And now facial recognition.
- MatthewPhillips 15y agoWhen were these things implemented?
- robert_nsu 15y agoWeren't Facebook engineers behind the Cassandra project and HipHop? Oh, and they have a list of projects their devs contribute to here: https://developers.facebook.com/opensource/ https://developers.facebook.com/opensource/
- bergie 15y agoEven though their open source contributions are nice, they are still just an implementation detail that can't really be counted as product innovation.
- basugasubaku 15y agoI think you are confusing the wall with the news feed. The original wall was a single wiki on your profile (ca 2004?), later replaced with public messages on your profile. The news feed is the updates you see when you login.