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Twitter is to Facebook as Google was to Yahoo
- djahng 18y agoHmmm, well the mistake that Yahoo made was identifying themselves as a portal, and that the portal was the core of their business. What they failed to realize was that the driving force behind the portal was the fact that people were still trying to find information (i.e. search). Yahoo started as a search engine that lost its focus. Did Facebook start as a "status update" site that got lost somewhere along the way? So the article begs the question: is the real reason people are driven to Facebook is to see their friend's status updates?
- lacker 18y agoThis will make sense if it turns out the most monetizable part of Facebook is the status messages. Otherwise, social relations are naturally a lot more rich, detailed, and complex than a single person navigating around the web. So perhaps it makes sense for social networks to be handled by a more complex interface than web search.
- madcaptenor 18y agoI really don't see how the status messages on Facebook are monetizable, unless you put ads next to them.
- barredo 18y agoI think it's very soon to tell that