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9/26/2006


Someone Needlepoint this Quote

And hang it on the wall.

Kevin Briody on Facebook's move to open its network to anyone:

This is a bad idea. A classic example of inappropriately twisting a business model to justify investor demands and market expectations.

Amen.

It's another example of the completely out of whack scale (or lack thereof) in the Web 2.0 space.  Facebook gained a big advantage, a huge mindshare and an identity apart from the "me too" of social networking by doing one thing very, very well- connecting college students.

Facebook is now willing to toss away much of that advantage by opening its gates to everyone in a silly attempt to be MySpace.

One day someone is going to make descisions based on something other than trying to squeeze the last dollar from the mythical Web 2.0 buyer.

When that happens, it will be time to needlepoint again.

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"One day someone is going to make descisions based on something other than trying to squeeze the last dollar from the mythical Web 2.0 buyer."

Cheers to that. FB has a great thing going among college students, with lots of room to make more money. Instead they had to try to become the next MySpace.

By Anonymous Kevin, at 9/26/2006 9:50 PM  
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The good news is that it should open up the market for somebody to become the new Facebook.

Anybody wanna do a little web design?

By Anonymous Mike, at 9/26/2006 10:38 PM  
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