When Yahoo Reigned Supreme

Post by n0us » Wed, May 11, 2016, 7:41 PM UTC

Post by shams93 » Wed, May 11, 2016, 8:13 PM UTC

stcredzero wrote: post #3

n0us wrote: post #2

I wonder if we will be reading this site in 10 years (or its successor) and see a title "When Facebook Reigned Supreme" about how a monolithic social network was seen as a gateway to everything having to do with your friends and interests.

Facebook can exploit the network effect. Yahoo, not so much. However, whenever Facebook will be dethroned, it will be because it has become "infrastructure" people take for granted. Is it just me, or does the graph of VC investment look like fading ripples?

Post by k__ » Wed, May 11, 2016, 9:14 PM UTC

Post by 1bm » Wed, May 11, 2016, 9:38 PM UTC

stcredzero wrote: post #3

n0us wrote: post #2

I wonder if we will be reading this site in 10 years (or its successor) and see a title "When Facebook Reigned Supreme" about how a monolithic social network was seen as a gateway to everything having to do with your friends and interests.

Facebook can exploit the network effect. Yahoo, not so much. However, whenever Facebook will be dethroned, it will be because it has become "infrastructure" people take for granted. Is it just me, or does the graph of VC investment look like fading ripples?

Post by samfisher83 » Wed, May 11, 2016, 9:54 PM UTC

shams93 wrote: post #4

stcredzero wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Facebook can exploit the network effect. Yahoo, not so much. However, whenever Facebook will be dethroned, it will be because it has become "infrastructure" people take for granted. Is it just me, or does the graph of VC investment look like fading ripples?

Yeah Facebook is able to leverage peer pressure in a big way, yahoo had email but with facebook messenger if you cancel out you lose access to communication with a lot of people. Not even google was able to make a dent in facebook, google plus turned into a broken joke.