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Friday, June 24, 2011

Is Farcebook repeating Myspace mistakes?

interesting excerpts:


Myspace
Myspace did everything itself. "We tried to create every feature in the world and said, 'O.K., we can do it, why should we let a third party do it?' " says DeWolfe. "We should have picked 5 to 10 key features that we totally focused on and let other people innovate on everything else."

Some ideas, such as classifieds, represented real business opportunities, DeWolfe says, but didn't get enough manpower. Others, such as karaoke, were niche products that diverted energy from less glamorous, more practical concerns. " ...... Gold says. "We went with a lot of products that were shallow and not the best products in the world."

Farcebook:
“Our mission is to get everyone in the world interacting with Facebook.... Platform is trying to help every site or app a person comes into contact with be more social and personal to a user. We are trying to build Facebook in some way into every single website people visit as most sites are anything but socially enabled,” he explained."

Excerpt sources:
Myspace: http://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/11_27/b4235053917570.htm

Farcebook:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/8592132/Inside-Facebook-HQ-future-proofing-the-social-network.html

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