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Facebook is rapidly becoming a seriously dominant technology player. I used to think of them as a "flavour of the year" play, but I'm having to readjust that pe
by malanj 13y ago
Facebook is rapidly becoming a seriously dominant technology player. I used to think of them as a "flavour of the year" play, but I'm having to readjust that perspective pretty hard.
It looks like they really are driving a long term strategy of being at the core on human -> human communication.
- hosh 13y agoYeah, I see this as a big move for FB, much bigger than for Oculus. Someone I know had already identified FB as one of the Big Four several years ago, analogizing to the Big Four during the robber baron days of steel and rail. The other three are Apple, Amazon, and Google. All four have some sort of machine learning / AI race going on. They are not the only ones around (Twitter, for example). But this is pretty big. Google has the Glasses project. Apple probably has something cooking somewhere. And I have no idea about Amazon. I also wonder if FB will keep the team together. It'd be a shame for John Caramak to skip out after the acquisition.
- gtremper 13y agoI'm (pretty)sure Facebook will leave Oculus alone; it would be dumb if they didn't, especially with all the anti-Facebook sentiment in our current zeitgeit. This is definitely a long term play towards becoming a major technology company. It's interesting to see what Facebook will become when "Facebook the website" is gone.
- hosh 13y agoI'm also interested to see if the Second Life team gets shopped around, or if they will still try to stay independent.
- prawn 13y agoIs it a strong strategy or more of a desperate "we have to grab this to be relevant in 5-10 years" reach?