Comments on: Facebook Is Not Really That Special http://mattmaroon.com/2008/04/10/facebook-is-not-really-that-special/ Get Marooned Fri, 23 Mar 2012 20:15:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Hasan Luongo http://mattmaroon.com/2008/04/10/facebook-is-not-really-that-special/#comment-14377 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:43:07 +0000 http://mattmaroon.com/?p=345#comment-14377 @Gubatron – wondering how valid you are finding my comments after every major social network now has a developer platform for 3rd party apps, and Apple opened its app store. There is no doubt that 3rd party networks are directly influenced by fb's platform.

]]> By: Hasan Luongo http://mattmaroon.com/2008/04/10/facebook-is-not-really-that-special/#comment-14382 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:39:49 +0000 http://mattmaroon.com/?p=345#comment-14382 Matt, just wanted to pass along some of the latest stats on facebook growth.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/08/12/facebook-i…

always good to check in a few months after the media fervor has died down and revisit the numbers.

]]> By: Vincent Nicolai http://mattmaroon.com/2008/04/10/facebook-is-not-really-that-special/#comment-14381 Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:43:41 +0000 http://mattmaroon.com/?p=345#comment-14381 hey, pretty interesting.

i added the post to http://www.tectrnd.com

cheers

]]> By: mattmaroon http://mattmaroon.com/2008/04/10/facebook-is-not-really-that-special/#comment-14379 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:12:04 +0000 http://mattmaroon.com/?p=345#comment-14379 Isn't that Loopt?

]]> By: mattmaroon http://mattmaroon.com/2008/04/10/facebook-is-not-really-that-special/#comment-14380 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 04:12:04 +0000 http://mattmaroon.com/?p=345#comment-14380 I mean, the first paragraph anyway.

]]> By: Gubatron http://mattmaroon.com/2008/04/10/facebook-is-not-really-that-special/#comment-14378 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:40:56 +0000 http://mattmaroon.com/?p=345#comment-14378 The only way I see facebook being a real social networking breakthrough, is if it makes it to everyone's phones in such a way that you get to a bar, run a peer to peer search among all the phones available in the bar, and you find 3 or 4 candidate people to do what you want with them. Now that would revolutionize the way people meet, know each other or get laid.

Imagine not having to waste energy with a girl on a bar to which you'll never have the slightest chance of getting laid, while all that time there was a girl that you may have liked and she would've totally taken you back to her place.

You'd walk into bars, and there would be a lot more people hooking up with their best matches. That would be the next sex revolution, straight from your phone. Then you'd have another one of thos “aha” moments.

]]> By: Gubatron http://mattmaroon.com/2008/04/10/facebook-is-not-really-that-special/#comment-14376 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:36:27 +0000 http://mattmaroon.com/?p=345#comment-14376 @Hasan
“as for overall utility fb's platform is the major innovation on the web in the last 5 years”

You gotta be kidding me…

Where do you leave stuff like semantic web, virtualization, distributed virtual machines, p2p video (joost), p2p telephony (skype), new advances on HCI, google earth, google maps.

that's real innovation, not a social networking site that lets others pollude it so that they can generate more pageviews.

]]> By: Gubatron http://mattmaroon.com/2008/04/10/facebook-is-not-really-that-special/#comment-14375 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 03:29:51 +0000 http://mattmaroon.com/?p=345#comment-14375 Cannot agree with you more. Also, if you try to advertise inside facebook, you'd think they would really target your ads pretty well… the reality as it is now (Apr 2008), their ad system sucks, they only target your ad on the person's interest, and basic info, you'd think they'd do smarter things… the results, very low clickthrough rates, and given the hype, the bidding is way too expensive. Putting banners in google adwords is way more cost effective and has a much broader audience.

Facebook being called a “Social Operating system”, is such a ridiculous hype phrase, to me, it's nothing but a social networking site that allowed people to create their own plugins to their CMS, how the hell can that be called an operating system.

Now, if you consider the initiatives of google, releasing distributed technology of their caliber, such as BigTable, Google File System, and maybe in the future MapReduce, now that's something that could live to the hype of a “Web Operating System”, or a “WebService Operating System”

Facebook just has great backing behind it, lots of pageviews, but it's nothing but a time waster, you get nothing out of it, except getting back with old friends, and there's many sites that could do all of that.

We need money invested in things that have real value to human kind, finding new energy sources, finding a way to use CO2 in a beneficial way, colonizing the moon, thinking of the big picture as a species.

]]> By: Dave Ambrose http://mattmaroon.com/2008/04/10/facebook-is-not-really-that-special/#comment-14374 Sun, 13 Apr 2008 00:16:26 +0000 http://mattmaroon.com/?p=345#comment-14374 Hey Matt,

I really enjoyed this, especially after the Fortune profile came out about COO Sandberg. Interesting dichotomy of viewpoints.

]]> By: mattmaroon http://mattmaroon.com/2008/04/10/facebook-is-not-really-that-special/#comment-14372 Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:29:01 +0000 http://mattmaroon.com/?p=345#comment-14372 That is a brilliant use of the web, but has nothing to do with the big social media sites in general.

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