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What Happens When Facebook Goes the Way of Myspace?

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Re: What Happens When Facebook Goes the Way of Myspace?

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Post by rapsey »

user5994461 wrote: post #17
jasode wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>, they can just continue to buy all the other new social network that pop-up Yes, many people have this fatalistic perspective about FB but they shouldn't because Zuckerberg can't buy all the competition. Buying a company requires a willing seller [0]. Consider that Facebook itself rejected offers from Viacom (~$1.5 billion), Yahoo (~$1 billion), Microsoft ($24 billion), etc.[1][2] The bigger companies such as Micro…

These offers were a joke. Try adding one zero. Pretty sure VC would give a billion with little strings attached to any company that's threatening Facebook. Every seller has a price. WhatsApp went for $16B.

They were not a joke. They were at an earlier stage of growth and all those prices were fair for what it was at the time.

Re: What Happens When Facebook Goes the Way of Myspace?

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Post by mr_toad »

pavlov wrote: post #11
maeln wrote: post #10

Facebook as a website can go the way of MySpace. But Facebook as a company will probably not. The subject is touched a bit toward the end of the article but the reality is this: Facebook has reached a critical mass, as a company, that MySpace never did. As such, they can just continue to buy all the other new social network that pop-up and make sure that they have a dominant position in the social network market. Unl…

Facebook today is in the same place as Microsoft in 2003-2007. Bad old API decisions made in pursuit of quick marketshare have come back to haunt. The main product is seen as lackluster and stagnated. Entries into new markets are seen as "me too" and out of sync with the brand image (Portal and Lasso might be Facebook's Zune). Microsoft survived all that and is now the world's most valuable corporation again. Faceboo…

Microsoft lives on enterprise sales; AD domain servers, CALs, Exchange, SQL server. I’m not sure Facebook has an equivalent product.

Re: What Happens When Facebook Goes the Way of Myspace?

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Post by buboard »

maeln wrote: post #10

Facebook as a website can go the way of MySpace. But Facebook as a company will probably not. The subject is touched a bit toward the end of the article but the reality is this: Facebook has reached a critical mass, as a company, that MySpace never did. As such, they can just continue to buy all the other new social network that pop-up and make sure that they have a dominant position in the social network market. Unl…

It doesnt even need to continue as a social network. They have a strong foothold in AI and are leading strong with their own DL framework.

Re: What Happens When Facebook Goes the Way of Myspace?

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Post by johannes1234321 »

revskill wrote: post #16

Facebook open sourced many useful libraries, and it's what matters to me first. Secondly, as a user, it has problem, just like any company.

Some companies abuse their users more. Some less.

Some purposely as key part of their business model. Some more by accident.

Everybody crossed a red traffic light once in their live, still we should go after people ignoring red lights.

Re: What Happens When Facebook Goes the Way of Myspace?

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Post by hnauz »

buboard wrote: post #25

Whatever vendetta the nytimes has with facebook has drawn too far too long. yawn

I'm starting to suspect they are trying to extort better ad prices from Facebook. This won't stop until they cave. I hope they don't cave. The press already has enough power as it is.

Re: What Happens When Facebook Goes the Way of Myspace?

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Post by johannes1234321 »

mr_toad wrote: post #22
pavlov wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Facebook today is in the same place as Microsoft in 2003-2007. Bad old API decisions made in pursuit of quick marketshare have come back to haunt. The main product is seen as lackluster and stagnated. Entries into new markets are seen as "me too" and out of sync with the brand image (Portal and Lasso might be Facebook's Zune). Microsoft survived all that and is now the world's most valuable corporation again. Faceboo…

Microsoft lives on enterprise sales; AD domain servers, CALs, Exchange, SQL server. I’m not sure Facebook has an equivalent product.

Instead of AD servers it has ad servers.

Re: What Happens When Facebook Goes the Way of Myspace?

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Post by FranzFerdiNaN »

hnauz wrote: post #27
buboard wrote: post #25

Whatever vendetta the nytimes has with facebook has drawn too far too long. yawn

I'm starting to suspect they are trying to extort better ad prices from Facebook. This won't stop until they cave. I hope they don't cave. The press already has enough power as it is.

Good. The press should have more power than corporations. Especially corporations with the moral standing of Facebook.

Re: What Happens When Facebook Goes the Way of Myspace?

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Post by FranzFerdiNaN »

revskill wrote: post #16

Facebook open sourced many useful libraries, and it's what matters to me first. Secondly, as a user, it has problem, just like any company.

Facebook was instrumental in electing the worst president ever that is causing damage that will last for decades, it seems that every month now a story break that they handle their users' data even worse than thought possible before, but hey, they made this cool open source library so i guess it all balances out!
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