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I don't think its that simple. The fact that you can name most all of them in a few words is evidence enough that its like striking lightning. And, with the ex
by Taek 5y ago
I don't think its that simple. The fact that you can name most all of them in a few words is evidence enough that its like striking lightning.
And, with the exception of Facebook, all of them represent completely new ideas rather than incremental changes. If you want to play in the social media game, you need something revolutionary and completely different, not just an incremental or even 10x improvement over what's already there.
And I don't really count MySpace, that was before tech mastered the art of the monopoly.
- dleslie 5y agoThere's a great deal more that I didn't state because I wasn't making an exhaustive list; you could do worse than by starting by looking at wikipedia[0]. I'm not sure why new ideas are a problem here, but I'd also argue that everything I listed had clear forebearers from which their designs developed from. MySpace and the Microsoft Antitrust case were in the same era; and there were monopolistic companies before then, in tech. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_services https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_social_networking_serv...