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So you think Facebook is all the rave?
01.05.08 (d.m.y) | 3 Comments
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Nope – IMO Facebook is letting all its applications spam itself to death; the crap/value ratio is too high…
…but on the other hand – one cannot ignore the fact that Facebook is still growing and that a lot of people are still focusing all their time and energy into driving traffic to and from facebook. After all – even 2 % of the traffic generated from MySpace is enormous…
06.05.08 (d.m.y) at 1:51 pm (CET) | Pål HeickI am surely one of those old m….. ……. who have totally missed Facebook – I judged it as waste of time. And surely there is still loads of spam-like communication.
But one month ago my eyes were opened. My brother (24 years) was killed as a soldier in Afghanistan, and what happened at his Facebook profile really surprised me:
- a large number of his friends expressed their griefs on the wall
- many new friends has asked to become his friend after his death to help them to remember
- some have even contacted us (his family) to support us ad tell what he meant to them
This tells me that Facebook (and similar networks) also provides real value, and we (the older generation) will probably discover that eventually.
08.05.08 (d.m.y) at 9:00 am (CET) | Søren RaaschouI don’t think anyone seriously doubts the value of social networks anymore (they have various uses and benefits, also depending on the nature of specific networks).
The reason Facebook is the talk of the town, though, is the great framework/API that allows everybody to plug in … which means it can integrate with Alfresco, and that MarkLogic can build an XML clustering tool for it, etcetera. It’s the sort of mash-up and intertwining that’s at the core of the Web 2.0 buzz, and in this case, it really gets vendors/developers building things to interact.
It’s not the fact that it’s the largest network. And let’s face it, the only thing interesting about MySpace is that it’s large — other than that, it’s very un-spectacular.
27.05.08 (d.m.y) at 3:10 pm (CET) | Adriaan Bloem