Facebook: Dating Effloresces
November 18, 2010
The Facebook announcement triggered a flood of posts, punditry, and pandering. I quite liked “Locked in Paradigms.” Most of the other posts I did not like so much. Venture Chronicles struck me as coming closer to the Facebook email-instant messaging-kitchen sink communications service. The write up said:
It’s easy to see why Facebook is keeping Google executive up at night… they are innovating at the edge and at the core simultaneously, have complete control over users social graphs while Google has to piece it together, and have a distribution capability that is only rivaled by Google. Most significantly, Facebook doesn’t seem restrained by the way that common applications, like messaging, have always worked and their ability to lever into 3rd party applications gives them an enormous advantage just at the moment.
Facebook is riding a wave and generating buzz. Google lost the wave and people turned down the buzz. Dating has effloresced at Facebook. Membership versus generic services seems to have the magic. How long will Facebook’s momentum persist? Google’s run up was quick. Facebook’s may be quicker. Microsoft’s trajectory suggests that we are talking years. But the Facebook social Swiss Army knife will probably gut AOL and Yahoo. Collateral damage in my opinion. Oh, and if you want to know why some folks wax enthusiastic over Facebook, read this article. No comment about this percentage for the Math Club.
Stephen E Arnold, November 18, 2010
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