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People make way too much of the Facebook platform. The part that's relevant to innovation is allowing third-party apps access to a list of who and what a user
by karzeem 19y ago
People make way too much of the Facebook platform. The part that's relevant to innovation is allowing third-party apps access to a list of who and what a user likes. It's silly that people are obsessed with building those apps inside Facebook, though. Look at use rates for the various apps. Facebook could get rid of every app except the basic profile, Photos, messages, the Wall, and Events, and it would be just as popular. The rest isn't nearly as promising.
- colortone 19y agoI agree. It's a shame they're not doing something truly valuable, like getting inside-out with all that user information. It's especially easy to get dark on them because of the attitude: "We're marginally more forward-thinking than MySpace, so think of us in terms of Google."