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Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by vabmit »

ttrreeww wrote: post #112
vabmit wrote: post #89

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I've noticed this, too. I still log into FB often. But, my FB feed is dead. Only 1 of my 100+ friends still posts something regularly (every week or two). At first, I just thought people created filters that didn't include me (when that feature was introduced). But, they're just not using FB anymore. Thinking back, I almost totally stopped posting stuff around the time they did because the site just began to feel cre…

Reddit, Google+, and this great game called RealLife.

I haven't posted anything on Google+ is well over a year. I don't think people moving to Google+ from FB. And, I'm sure Google+ is not the next big social network.

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by shirederby »

tartuffe78 wrote: post #153
crabasa wrote: post #35

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Cloudmine - https://cloudmine.me Azure Mobile Services - http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/mobile/

No offense, but suggesting Microsoft to a guy who is turned off by Facebook made me chuckle

His issue seems to be a fear that Parse will be "integrated" into Facebook and its walled-garden-philosophy, rather than presented as a serious B2B offering. That wouldn't be as much as a problem with Microsoft.

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by [deleted] »

dweekly wrote: post #126
oneplusone wrote: post #4

Damn. I was going to use Parse for my app, but now I will not. What are some of the alternatives out there?

Bummer. Can I ask why this changed your mind? At FB, we're quite serious about finding ways to gift third party developers with APIs, tools, open source, platforms, whatever we can do to help. I think Parse is pretty awesome and is likely to become more so at Facebook. That's a useless opinion if it's not shared by the wider community, though. So: feedback taken seriously - we're listening. Fire away.

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Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by gsibble »

pg wrote: post #150
jsnell wrote: post #118

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No? From what I can see they've taken less than a 10th of that in VC. And this is the first time in over a year that I've heard anything about them. Buzz isn't everything, and maybe there was a viable business there. But they certainly weren't setting the world on fire. It's pretty hard to see how a near $100 million exit in circumstances like that would be disappointing or "really cheap". (And congrats certainly see…

But they certainly weren't setting the world on fire. Actually their growth was very good, among the steepest of all the 500 or so companies we've funded.

Then $85mm does seem cheap considering there is no way it gave a 10x return to investors ($7mm in the door).

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by jamesaguilar »

vabmit wrote: post #89
smrtinsert wrote: post #54

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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.…

I've noticed this, too. I still log into FB often. But, my FB feed is dead. Only 1 of my 100+ friends still posts something regularly (every week or two). At first, I just thought people created filters that didn't include me (when that feature was introduced). But, they're just not using FB anymore. Thinking back, I almost totally stopped posting stuff around the time they did because the site just began to feel cre…

Uh, your sample is wayyyy different from mine. There are six posts in the last hour just by people I'm close to. I don't think Facebook is dying in any sense of the word among normal people.

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by zw »

jacquesm wrote: post #97
Apocryphon wrote: post #20

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Ironic that Google seems to have a social networking problem, while Facebook has a mobile problem.

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.

And that's a people-getting-the-hell-out-of-dodge problem. Google's services are the best in many arenas, but they aren't without competitors.

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by zw »

aashaykumar92 wrote: post #33
w1ntermute wrote: post #22

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Google should've bought Facebook years ago, when it was still small.

Do you really think Zuckerberg would have agreed to that? I doubt it. Facebook was still relatively small when Yahoo offered to buy them for $1 billion but Zuckerberg didn't give it much thought at all.

But, honestly, in the mid-2000's, would you have wanted to be bought by Yahoo?

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by teyc »

dweekly wrote: post #126
oneplusone wrote: post #4

Damn. I was going to use Parse for my app, but now I will not. What are some of the alternatives out there?

Bummer. Can I ask why this changed your mind? At FB, we're quite serious about finding ways to gift third party developers with APIs, tools, open source, platforms, whatever we can do to help. I think Parse is pretty awesome and is likely to become more so at Facebook. That's a useless opinion if it's not shared by the wider community, though. So: feedback taken seriously - we're listening. Fire away.

Parse is a distraction for FB. You are not even in the same business. Regardless of what you say, you are unable to override the CEO if or when he decides that Parse is to be shut down. The alternatives are more appealing because their business model solely depends on customers paying for the back end service.

The best thing FB can do is to bind itself legally to continue to run Parse for the next x number of years.

If FB wants to dabble with PaaS, businesses are going to assess Parse on the basis that it is only an experiment. Tying oneself to a back end is like marriage. No one will invest in a relationship if the other side is only half serious.

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by zw »

khangtoh wrote: post #156

Apple should have just acquired Parse. iCloud is a mess, it's a next step for them to provide some sort of back end API for iOS developers. They're sitting on a huge pile of cash and all Tim could come up with is stock buyback.

While I agree that there needs to be a "fix" (and I have to assume one is in the works), but taking the Microsoft route of throwing money at problems until they work put them into the position they are today.

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by adventured »

tartuffe78 wrote: post #153
crabasa wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Cloudmine - https://cloudmine.me Azure Mobile Services - http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/develop/mobile/

No offense, but suggesting Microsoft to a guy who is turned off by Facebook made me chuckle

The difference is Microsoft isn't buying anyone, it's their own service. The guy is turned off by the notion of what's about to happen to Parse, not just that they're being bought. The context matters.
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