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He lost me when he said "They will add Apps to directly compete with Google, like maps, email, and productivity (think: Evernote). As well as cloud storage."

by ecspike 12y ago

He lost me when he said "They will add Apps to directly compete with Google, like maps, email, and productivity (think: Evernote). As well as cloud storage." Did we already forget the fail that was FB email?

wodenokoto 12y ago
FB Mail wasn't as much email as it was email redirect. I could easily see them offering corporate email as part of the facebook@yourcompany, or whatever the corporate FB edition is called. Maps, storage and productivity are great ideas for FB to expand into. They have the users, and the infrastructure to handle massive amounts of data.
dlu 12y ago
I'm not even sure why he thinks they're heading in that direction. Until they do something like make a big productivity acquisition, I can't see them shifting over over from social
- jasonmcalacanis 12y ago
  1. That's exactly what people said about Google before they launched Google Apps, Docs, etc. "why would Google do this?" -- the answer was clear: user engagement and the blurring of personal and professional data/personas. 2. If you hit scale, the best practices is to try and build as full of a stack as possible. That's why Microsoft did a search engine, Google did an Office Suite and why Facebook will do both at some point.
  - dlu 12y ago
    1. I feel like social and productivity are at two ends of a spectrum. Searc, at least in my mind, is closer to productivity. Still seems unlikely to me that they'd build it from scratch rather than buy someone. 2. Interesting that you think of the stack that way. So you think Facebook will encroach onto Search at some point? What exactly is in the full stack? And an obligatory reference to Apple, is Apple a different full stack or are they a short stack without search? Now I want pancakes
  - robot 12y ago
    Google's worst user experience item is the combination of productivity apps. You use one, you can't escape the others. You have gmail? All your contacts (including people you emailed once) will be synced to your Android phone, not to mention the many duplicates. A terrible experience when you combine all the mediocre apps with the ones that matter.

by ecspike 12y ago

wodenokoto 12y ago

FB Mail wasn't as much email as it was email redirect. I could easily see them offering corporate email as part of the facebook@yourcompany, or whatever the corporate FB edition is called. Maps, storage and productivity are great ideas for FB to expand into. They have the users, and the infrastructure to handle massive amounts of data.

dlu 12y ago

I'm not even sure why he thinks they're heading in that direction. Until they do something like make a big productivity acquisition, I can't see them shifting over over from social

jasonmcalacanis 12y ago
1. That's exactly what people said about Google before they launched Google Apps, Docs, etc. "why would Google do this?" -- the answer was clear: user engagement and the blurring of personal and professional data/personas. 2. If you hit scale, the best practices is to try and build as full of a stack as possible. That's why Microsoft did a search engine, Google did an Office Suite and why Facebook will do both at some point.
- dlu 12y ago
  1. I feel like social and productivity are at two ends of a spectrum. Searc, at least in my mind, is closer to productivity. Still seems unlikely to me that they'd build it from scratch rather than buy someone. 2. Interesting that you think of the stack that way. So you think Facebook will encroach onto Search at some point? What exactly is in the full stack? And an obligatory reference to Apple, is Apple a different full stack or are they a short stack without search? Now I want pancakes
- robot 12y ago
  Google's worst user experience item is the combination of productivity apps. You use one, you can't escape the others. You have gmail? All your contacts (including people you emailed once) will be synced to your Android phone, not to mention the many duplicates. A terrible experience when you combine all the mediocre apps with the ones that matter.