Would Facebook be another yahoo? - Careers

Beijing time on September 19 news, according to foreign media reports, Facebook is a social network in the world now the undisputed overlord, it beat out a Myspace and all other competitors, with nearly 700 million users, billions of dollars of revenue, and the ubiquity of "great" button has been installed to hundreds of millions of web site. But the Internet giant and turn things occurred before, or are there (such as yahoo, yahoo in now seems to wander aimlessly drift, waiting for the bankruptcy do). Michael al Ian (Mike Elgan) in Datamation of a blog post says Facebook is the new yahoo: a decline, the giants Twitter and Google + copy other network things, rather than their innovation. Is he right? The following is a well-known technology blog Gigaom columnist Matthew (Mathew Ingram Ingram) vision of this:

In short, al Ian think Facebook is not work out what really new or interesting things, can match it in its huge growth and it is in the top of the food chain social identity. He said that Facebook has done is up at the right time: when technology and online social behavior is very appropriate environment into a anyone can use social network, and Facebook from university campus, slowly started to become a critical point, a generation of "social networking" default.

Al Ian said: situation has to "everyone use social networking" ready, and Facebook appeared...... It's "concept" and not particularly interesting, its design is not a revolutionary, and it in engineering is not particularly good on, but the timing of it choose to be perfect.

But al Ian said the Facebook is the time is over now-there are so many social networking site appears, a single, encompassing social networking site is no longer so necessary. Facebook had very special, but now social element has become very popular, Facebook will find themselves in "the snow sold to the eskimos" thing.

Size is too big to fail is insufficient, innovation?

Al Ian said Facebook is to promote the new product, but all more or less to fail, such as location service Places and service Deals are to halt the (or at least greatly reduced the size), Facebook and "N and email inbox nobody seems to have really in use. In addition, al Ian said Facebook is also copied the Google + list function and "subscribe" option.

"The matrix news" of a critics say, al gedaliah the this article is just a "fire" (flame bait-bait in mailing list, newsgroups, or other online BBS, published on the topic of emotional because is expressing a controversial and is caused by abuse against articles). In part, may be so, because al Ian said in some direction it is the place of undeserved, such as Facebook programming is quite complex, and he mentioned some failure example, also can saying is Facebook is trying to keep example of innovation. At least Facebook or modification of the failure to give up products faster than other many some Internet giant yahoo and aol (for example) are faster.

But in talking to imitate, al gedaliah the claim made some sense. As the method, Slate DE ord (Farhad Manjoo about) said, Facebook has been a bit like "fast followers. In other words, it isn't invent a new concept, but give a has been in existence for a period of time things into a better version (as Facebook itself is imitation Friendster and other network do). This is not necessarily a bad thing. In the function of copy Google +, make it easier to filter their friend might be a good idea, but let you subscribe to post is not good, because Facebook is always use a "symmetrical" only friends visible mode, and the way this is the serious subscribe to deviate from.