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Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by lmg643 »

smrtinsert wrote: post #54
Apocryphon wrote: post #20

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

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.…

by the time a company reaches $65 billion market cap, the time for a complete reinvention is over. businesses of that size should be mature cash machines. if the plan is to generate cash by offering b2b services, whereas up until now everyone thought it was advertising to slavish users, I think now might be a good time to run as far away from possible from facebook stock.

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by Udo »

dweekly wrote: post #146
dudurocha wrote: post #144

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I think he is worried, thinking facebook may kill Parse, and he will have no support.

[nod] But we did not buy Parse to kill it!

But what exactly did you buy them for? It can't be infrastructure, you already have that. It can't be app development libraries because you already have your own. Seems plausible you want to become a storage platform for their user data, which will ultimately mean tight FB integration. I don't think Parse can survive that. You might not intend to kill it, but how are you going to use it and prevent that from happening?

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by UntitledNo4 »

vabmit wrote: post #161
ttrreeww wrote: post #112

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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.

I hope that the next social network will be real life and that online services will go back to what those things used to be: websites that do one thing good (see Flickr) rather than trying to buy our mortal souls. Or giving me (us?) the feeling this is is what they're trying to do.

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by [deleted] »

jsnell wrote: post #160
pg wrote: post #150

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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.

That's great to hear. But since pretty much nobody here has access to those awespme internals, I still don't see where the gp's "really cheap" impression would be coming from.

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Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by burgreblast »

aswanson wrote: post #176
fizzbar wrote: post #133

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Way, way too soon to declare G+ a miserable failure. It's the lynchpin to their long term strategy for maintaining their dominance and relevance in Search, which in turn is how their Golden Goose of ad revenue lays its eggs. 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...

Mandatory. As in a dictate under a threat, perceived or existent. How do you figure?

Mandatory. As in activate G+ to keep using YouTube. Then Gmail.

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by ing33k »

benatkin wrote: post #92
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?

There's UserGrid, which is open source: https://developers.apigee.com/app-services

This ones pretty cool, but documentation doesn’t really catchup with that others. but do check it out..

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by anoncow »

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.

G+ has its set of users and it might grow in the coming days, but by integrating G+ with Google search they are destroying the sanctity of search. Having to sign up for a social network so that my blog posts can have my photo and name appear in search results is evil. Google can use existing microdata to achieve a similar result. But they want to push their social network down my throat if I want to make my website appear in google search with authorship data.

Re: Facebook buys Parse

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Post by gridmaths »

oneplusone wrote: post #155
dweekly wrote: post #126

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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.

My issues: - I don't trust Facebook to not convert the user system into a Facebook connect monster and force it on me - I don't trust Facebook to not data mine my data and violate me and my user's privacy - I don't trust Facebook to let me export my data once I want to move on - I don't trust Facebook to actually delete data once I tell them to do so - I don't trust Facebook to not to attempt to monetize my users bey…

Could the real problem be : "we dont trust facebook"
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