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Congrats to the team for being the third-biggest exit to date of a company to come from a seed accelerator. http://www.seed-db.com/companies/funding?value=exit [edited; originally said FB bought OMGPOP but it was Zynga. Sorry I was wrong, it's past midnight here] Looks like they're making Ignition Partners happy... I'd guess around a 4x return. But making a lot of other angels/funds happy, too. (Garry Tan, Google Ven…
Congrats to the team for being the third-biggest exit to date of a company to come from a seed accelerator. http://www.seed-db.com/companies/funding?value=exit [edited; originally said FB bought OMGPOP but it was Zynga. Sorry I was wrong, it's past midnight here] Looks like they're making Ignition Partners happy... I'd guess around a 4x return. But making a lot of other angels/funds happy, too. (Garry Tan, Google Ven…
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If google keeps ramming their social network product down peoples throats it won't be very long before they have more than just a social networking problem.
I think it is already a bigger problem. In past Google has always been quick to accept their failures and correct it's course but with their social networking product I think they are not willing to admit that they are a miserable failure.
Whether us schmuck users like or dislike it is irrelevant. At some point, G+ will be mandatory, as someone in Slate (i think, or maybe on quora somewhere) recently wrote...
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Facebook has a mindshare problem. I no longer consider it a driving force in my social interaction and I'm of the older generation. The younger generation seems to have abandoned it already. It's now a deposit for the occasional family photo and lately seems to be full of chain spam. When you think back to the history of social networks (AOL, Compuserv, Friendster, Myspace) these things don't have a great half-life.…
Totally disagree. I'm in college right now and Facebook+Instagram are still the social networks of choice. If anything Facebook has only lost it's novelty because it's assumed everyone has one. The only thing that sucks up more of my time is Hacker News :)
- I get its messages delivered to my phone.
- Most every party I go to has a Facebook event associated with it.
- Pretty much every picture taken with my friends goes to it (or Instagram).
I'd say that's pretty normal for most people I interact with.
Congrats to the Parse team!! As a customer, not necessarily happy about this. I don't like Doug Purdy's quote, "We don’t intend to change this." We use Parse and love it. I really hope they maintain some autonomy as to not get sucked into the "move fast and break things" or "documentation? f--k it." Nonetheless, probably makes a lot of sense for Facebook's mobile strategy.
disclaimer: I work at Facebook.
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That's incorrect.
Why? Makes sense to me. Why else would Facebook want to "power my app" with Parse? Haven't they always only offered developer services for their own platform and not the wider web?
Here's my speculation: Facebook bought Parse to attempt to own mobile usage data. Draw parallels with what Google did when they bought Urchin to form Google Analytics. I don't think Facebook cares about creating developer experiences. I think they care about having tracking hooks into mobile applications.
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Facebook has a mindshare problem. I no longer consider it a driving force in my social interaction and I'm of the older generation. The younger generation seems to have abandoned it already. It's now a deposit for the occasional family photo and lately seems to be full of chain spam. When you think back to the history of social networks (AOL, Compuserv, Friendster, Myspace) these things don't have a great half-life.…
Totally disagree. I'm in college right now and Facebook+Instagram are still the social networks of choice. If anything Facebook has only lost it's novelty because it's assumed everyone has one. The only thing that sucks up more of my time is Hacker News :)
Congrats, Parse guys. Please try not to let Facebook ruin an awesome service.