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This video is the best foot forward case from FB to buy their stock. That is its purpose. Through that lens when demonstrating the product in the first 5 minut
by aresant 15y ago
This video is the best foot forward case from FB to buy their stock. That is its purpose.
Through that lens when demonstrating the product in the first 5 minutes, the amount of time that FB dedicates to 2 features - photo sharing and Timeline - is striking.
Instagram learned the $1b way just how core photo sharing is to FB.
But doesn't that acquisition demonstrate FB's inherent weakness - consumer's fickle behavior?
That in 18 months a <20 man start-up can terrify a multi-billion dollar behemoth?
And then the focus on Timeline just feels odd.
A "maybe" success from the user perspective, but either way seems more like a UI-update than a core product choice.
Two years from now does anybody believe timeline will be the default homepage?
Facebook is going to be a behemoth IPO no matter what, but I am less compelled to own the stock vs. investing money in another photo-startup that could swing hard @ facebook's core, despite how pedestrian that sounds!
- oskarth 15y agoI think the reason they mention the timeline is because it's great for advertisers. It doesn't seem unlikely that it has intentionally been designed to be disorienting which leads us to pay more attention to ads. User retention (including engagement and growth) and monetization are obviously the two biggest concerns for a company like Facebook. Photos (sticky, long-living) and the map of users (if you are not in you are out) are for user retention. Timeline and platform (games, connect, pages etc) is for monetization.