In the article, he describes Facebook as less of a community than MySpace and more of a directory. Any other feelings about Facebook and MySpace aside, I think he's pretty wrong about that. Facebook's architecture allows different members of the site to be linked based on a large variety of dimensions spanning the users provided interests, network memberships, and other criteria. In my experience, MySpace's "social networking" capabilities are much less robust.
On the rosier side (for Twitter), overdemand means that the service is popular to the extent that its original hardware can't keep up. This problem can be solved simply by hardware improvements. Twitter would be far less usable and less valuable if nobody wanted to use it.
I'm getting so tired of having to read detailed documents that describe a candidate's position on complex and important issues. A distillation of once-meaningful information into painless and catchy sound bites is just what the doctor ordered.
There are two "secrets" to Microsoft's success:
1. Microsoft had the luck to work in an exploding market while it was still in its infancy.
2. Microsoft had the shrewdness (or ruthlessness, perhaps) to continue leveraging the advantage conferred by secret 1 for the decades to follow.
Slashdot Mirror
See also: The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks.
I have been waiting for a built-in Windows National Threat Advisory widget for so long.
In the article, he describes Facebook as less of a community than MySpace and more of a directory. Any other feelings about Facebook and MySpace aside, I think he's pretty wrong about that. Facebook's architecture allows different members of the site to be linked based on a large variety of dimensions spanning the users provided interests, network memberships, and other criteria. In my experience, MySpace's "social networking" capabilities are much less robust.
On the rosier side (for Twitter), overdemand means that the service is popular to the extent that its original hardware can't keep up. This problem can be solved simply by hardware improvements. Twitter would be far less usable and less valuable if nobody wanted to use it.
I'm getting so tired of having to read detailed documents that describe a candidate's position on complex and important issues. A distillation of once-meaningful information into painless and catchy sound bites is just what the doctor ordered.
This tactic would work even without subconscious binoculars!
There are two "secrets" to Microsoft's success:
1. Microsoft had the luck to work in an exploding market while it was still in its infancy.
2. Microsoft had the shrewdness (or ruthlessness, perhaps) to continue leveraging the advantage conferred by secret 1 for the decades to follow.
Maybe Mark should also patent using a database to store information.