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Does anyone else feel like we're just one step away from telling people to go to "AOL keyword: x"? Facebook today (with the exception of a nearly realtime data
by jeremymims 17y ago
Does anyone else feel like we're just one step away from telling people to go to "AOL keyword: x"? Facebook today (with the exception of a nearly realtime data feed) feels so much like AOL in 1994 in terms of functionality (actually, where are my chat rooms?). Have we really only come this far in 15 years?
I'm really not excited about creating a parallel internet inside facebook where companies have to pay to play. While there are benefits to being wherever your customers are, I can think of any number of reasons why this is just a big bad step backwards.
- windsurfer 17y agoSome people like having a walled garden on the Internet. Companies are the ones that are going to have to fund it, though advertising. Facebook simply has a good implementation, that's all.
- ivankirigin 17y agoAOL had nothing like connect. Connect is the reason Facebook is going to win, imho.
- sho 17y agoWin what? The blog log-in competition? No-one will ever use it for anything serious. I can't understand why anyone would use it at all. You do realise you are basically giving them your browsing history, right? Some faceless corporation who will probably then sell that history - with your real name attached - to whoever wants them? And what did you gain, an avatar picture - branded no less? You'd have to be nuts.