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Widgetmakers successfully gut Zuckerberg's Facebook redesign

Fidel on the Roof — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:23:03 PDT

@Norcross: It is not a bad thing... it just proves you have no acne. Outside of here, you and I are pretty normal in failing to follow tweeners.

Fidel on the Roof

Widgetmakers successfully gut Zuckerberg's Facebook redesign

Bornean — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 17:42:59 PDT

It's the facebook economy.

The free facebook market.

Gotta compete in Zuck's little ecosystem.

Like the 12 year old who had a PHP-nuke, forced kids to register for his forum to make any use of the site.

Again, juvenile economics.

Zuck: Go back to watching AMV's

Bornean

Widgetmakers successfully gut Zuckerberg's Facebook redesign

macbeach — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:57:29 PDT

@Norcross:

It's a good thing(tm).

We are talking about you there and we don't want you to listen in.

macbeach

Widgetmakers successfully gut Zuckerberg's Facebook redesign

Bornean — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:25:01 PDT

Curse you for not seeing the genius in Zuckerberg's action. Zuckerberg, to me, is much like a Roman emperor. Pompous, filled with hubris, and destined to fall.

Imagine if the Vista sidebar widget makers controlled Windows. Imagine if the only source of revenue in Windows were sidebar widgets.

Problem is you kids don't see the power of facebook.

Bornean

Widgetmakers successfully gut Zuckerberg's Facebook redesign

Norcross — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:57:59 PDT

...and why is it a bad thing that I still haven't joined the Facebook bandwagon?

Norcross

Widgetmakers successfully gut Zuckerberg's Facebook redesign

Fidel on the Roof — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:11:15 PDT

@sample032: ... remain?

Fidel on the Roof

Widgetmakers successfully gut Zuckerberg's Facebook redesign

sample032 — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 12:48:58 PDT

This has so many bad implications for facebook.

* The advantage walled gardens have is being able to enforce an environment. Facebook losing control of its enforced tastefulness leaves it with nothing but market share.

* The only value in add-on features that do nothing is in low-cost pageviews. Facebook must be profiting from apps, and not just by a relatively small amount--its profits aren't high, so this is a desperate way to make money.

* Forget the Zuck losing control of Facebook--that's probably a good thing--the problem is that people who depend on Facebook to operate a business have gained a significant amount of control over Facebook. For Facebook to remain relevant, it will have to evolve (it is a fad product, after all). The roadblock will be the app developers and other platforms happy/desperate to poach apps and users.

sample032