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I think what Mark is trying to avoid is the "Curse of Knowledge" (To borrow the Heath brothers phrase - check out Made to Stick, great book) Facebook is all abo
by jamiequint 20y ago
I think what Mark is trying to avoid is the "Curse of Knowledge" (To borrow the Heath brothers phrase - check out Made to Stick, great book) Facebook is all about innovation, I think they purposefully avoid old ideas. (preferring young people = fresh ideas) Thats not to say they aren't young experienced smart people.
- nostrademons 20y ago"Facebook is all about innovation, I think they purposefully avoid old ideas." Are they, really? The only new idea I've seen come out of FaceBook is tagging photos by drawing boxes around the people. Other than that, they're your basic database-backed social networking app. There's very little new there: LiveJournal/Flickr/Friendster/MySpace did it all before. Google innovates. Thinkature innovates. Justin.tv (much as I think their community is heading for disaster) innovates. FaceBook seems to have positioning going for them, but they do fairly little technical stuff that can't be done by a hobbyist programmer in college. Which seems to be what most of their hires are...
- jamiequint 20y agoI think thats overgeneralizing a little, many of the problems they are solving on the back end are not simple, give them a little credit for scaling from nothing to the 6th biggest website in the US very smoothly. All the people I know that work there are far from "hobbyist programmers" and they are all damn smart, a fair amount have owned and sold companies before working there. The innovation that comes out of Facebook is not purely technological, but more idealistic. They took stuff that had been done before and uniquely applied in a way that hadn't done before, doesn't that pass as a definition of innovation?