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He doesn't get it! Does. not. get. it. It's an online rolodex! A REPLACEMENT for a real rolodex! Isn't that fucking outrageously brilliant? It's clear how a r
by henning 19y ago
He doesn't get it! Does. not. get. it.
It's an online rolodex! A REPLACEMENT for a real rolodex! Isn't that fucking outrageously brilliant?
It's clear how a rolodex web application with messaging and a full-featured API is worth nearly as much as GFS + PageRank + MapReduce + BigTable + 450,000 commodity servers + thousands of motivated engineers.
- mattmaroon 19y agoThat would be Plaxo.
- mattmaroon 19y agoNot to mention, nobody has bought an actual Rolodex in 10 years. You can't build a business by replacing a product that has already been replaced.
- chaostheory 19y agomaybe it's trying to replace your web mail for personal use...
- chaostheory 19y agoplaxo began to be free only recently... besides its audience is traditionally more slanted for business professionals. It's trying to change, but it has a long road ahead
- mattmaroon 19y agoWeren't business professionals Rolodex's target audience as well?
- chaostheory 19y agoi don't know. I'm not old enough to remember. I just equated a rolodex to an ancient address book... anyways my point is that plaxo just doesn't have the coolness factor that facebook for has personal use, though you're free to disagree
- mattmaroon 19y agoOh, I don't know anything about Plaxo, other than what they do. Never had any use for it.
- electric 19y ago"It's an online rolodex! " LinkedIn is.
- neilc 19y agoTo be pedantic, no one is suggesting that FB is worth "nearly as much" as Google: even at an (absurd) valuation of $10 billion for Facebook, that is still less than 1/18th of Google's current market cap.
- Goladus 19y agoTrue, the question is whether Facebook will be worth that much in 5-10 years.