Web2.0 Meta-Talk: Twitter vs. Google and Facebook vs. Itself

[l33tminion]

Interesting chatter bouncing across the blag-o-sphere / twitter-verse / what have you:

There's some discussion of the Facebook redesign, which is generally loathed, leading Facebook's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, to proclaim that "disruptive" companies don't listen to their customers; presumably customers just drag you down. Actually, I don't think the

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[chiaki777]

Alright, I'll bite since I've really been ignoring your posts in terms of lengthy unsolicited comments attacking everything with baseless opinions masked as noteworthy arguments in my own mind

[l33tminion]

Pretty much. Facebook proves that there are good things about walled gardens by ruining what's good about the one they made. Both opening up to new people (public profiles, non-college networks) and new features (Facebook applications) are steps away from the walled garden approach. Also, it's an interesting demonstration of how loosening the garden walls can strengthen a monopoly (well, maybe).

And people did warm to some of the previous redesigns (the original introduction of the news feed, back when that feature was useful) after initially hating them. So maybe Zuckerberg is on to something.

[chiaki777]

I'd say he's on to making money; not something useful for social networking for commercial or public groups though.

I certainly wouldn't want my work adding me on Facebook, which indeed is causing me stress since I lead a double life.

[l33tminion]

What I'm curious to see is how it will work out for him, making-money wise. Unless Zuckerberg has some new monetization method planned, it's all about the page-views.

[peaceofpie]

I think it's incredibly rude to tell someone who's asked me a question that they should have Googled it themselves, and I'm a lot more patient with "stupidity" than outright rudeness. Who am I to judge the stupidity of someone else's question? If I know the answer, why not just ANSWER, or at least offer an explanation as to why Googling it would give them a better answer than I would? And if I don't know the answer, then clearly I'm just as "stupid" as the person asking the question, and I haven't even taken any initiative to rectify my own ignorance, while they have because they asked for the information they wanted.

[l33tminion]

Well, thanks for the preemptive strike against my future rudeness, but you'll be glad to know I was kidding.

[peaceofpie]

I hope so. I see people do this all the time on the internet and it drives me absolutely bonkers. ;-)