Stop making search engines, AltaVista won.
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Stop Making Social Networks, Facebook Won
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Re: Stop Making Social Networks, Facebook Won
#22Stop making search engines, AltaVista won.
Stop making mobile phones, Motorola won.
Re: Stop Making Social Networks, Facebook Won
#23Stop making search engines, AltaVista won.
My sentiments exactly. While your at it, stop making operating systems, Microsoft won.
Wrong analogy. Several SE can have access to the same data (documents on the web) and the new one which offers most relevant to your query subset of those can win. Also there is a very little switching cost.
Now the new social network won't have the main ingredient - the network itself. To get the number of users that facebook has is not an easy task. Swithching is tricky, unless all your FB friends are on the new network too.
I am not saying it is impossible. It is just much much more difficult than launching a new SE.
Re: Stop Making Social Networks, Facebook Won
#24Hey, that was my blog post. Thanks for the thoughtful comments. I'd be alarmed for the future if folks on this forum agreed with what I was saying! FWIW I posted an update motivated by these comments:
quick clarification in response to feedback. I'm not saying "don't compete with Facebook", I'm saying "don't build something new where I have to enter a new list of my acquaintances."
Re: Stop Making Social Networks, Facebook Won
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
My sentiments exactly. While your at it, stop making operating systems, Microsoft won.
Wrong analogy. Several SE can have access to the same data (documents on the web) and the new one which offers most relevant to your query subset of those can win. Also there is a very little switching cost. Now the new social network won't have the main ingredient - the network itself. To get the number of users that facebook has is not an easy task. Swithching is tricky, unless all your FB friends are on the new ne…
I think the point is that just because there is an dominant player in an industry, doesn't mean they will remain dominant. How easy it is to disrupt a market varies, but they all will change over time.
Facebook's open graph actually makes it much more likely there will be parallel networks to Facebook that could eventually become primary.
For instance, if Google had Facebook Connect as a login method, they could quickly assemble the entire social graph and potentially beat Facebook.
That's likely why Facebook is in a tiff with Ping - Apple has the capability of replacing Facebook some day.
Re: Stop Making Social Networks, Facebook Won
#26Re: Stop Making Social Networks, Facebook Won
#27Facebook is blocked in Mainland China and Vietnam, home to over 1 billion people.
Facebook is nowhere in Japan or Korea, the two most lucrative East Asian markets.
Re: Stop Making Social Networks, Facebook Won
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Stop making mobile phones, Motorola won.
sorry mate, but Nokia did! 150 years old and 50% market share
Yeah I considered Nokia for that comment, my thought was Motorala domainated first, then Nokia and now Nokia are failing to compete with Apple and Android which are likely to take over in the long term as every phone becomes a smart phone.
Re: Stop Making Social Networks, Facebook Won
#29Didn't MySpace already win?
Oh wait...
Re: Stop Making Social Networks, Facebook Won
#30Someone's a quitter. :(