Your point that, because he limited the userbase initially, he was not out to make money or make something big -- I disagree. Simply, he was the one who had the vision that he could grow a huge userbase by building upon tiers and tiers of *coolness* leveraged by hierarchies of "in" -- 1) harvard-in 2) ivy-league schools-in 3) stanford / berkeley-in 4) the rest, etc
I starting using fb about 3-4 months after its creation (#8 college i think) and the reason why *everyone at school* hopped on (as opposed to friendster which was already around) was *because* of its exclusivity -- we felt exclusive being in a college only type social network, and to boot, the top-10 colleges.
Things started becoming uncool when people from un college networks started joining, but that's a hard problem to solve when your userbase graduates every 4-5 years and becomes "uncool" pretty much after graduating.
Nice post. Cool for an engineer (like me) who is about to begin his career. However, "Be useful to somebody; be a burden to no one." also works for engineering (I feel like you may be implying some service oriented industry). I think that's what engineers (hardware/software) ultimately find fulfilling: the promise of doing something cool that ultimately benefits thousands if not millions and allows them to derive joy from.. a series of if-else statements or some logic gates tied up in cool ways:) Maybe I'm being an ideologist and once I get into the actual industry (whether it be hw or sw) I will end up like those mentioned in the OP -- disgruntled and ruined. Lol?
Every day, facebook becomes worse and worse. The apps are pointless, and the site is slower and cumbersome (compared to its spritely version in 2004 when it came out). It is fun to be tagged in photos with your friends, and to post on each others' "walls", but that's about it. During college it was great to use, since everyone is growing up and want to meet new people. However, after college theres not as much use for it and I find myself barely using it.. its basically functioning as a "bridge" between when you just meet someone, to when you get their IM and you chat on IM instead.
The only thing keeping facebook going is that its achieved critical mass. I can see Google one day knocking out Facebook easily, since everyone now has gmail and eventually Facebook will need to move from "stupid, 3rd party, spyware apps" to real apps such as Calendars, maps, and such -- and google already has these features.
Zuckerberg should have sold for $750 million or whatever was offered.
Ahh I remember those days.. when I was a kid in Canada and my brother watched 90210 (but I didn't). The only thing useful to me about that show was an easy ZIP I could always use for everything and anything. LOL
> I think we'll see more and more that people are going to be known by their avatars rather than their actual name as data becomes universal like this.
What's funny is that I go out of my way to make sure my avatar is unknown, in the sense that there is no tie with my real name in any way, on any website/forum/whatever. If you google my avatar, all you find is which websites I used that avatar, and what I posted using that avatar, but nothing else about me. In fact, I even switch avatars; one avatar for different websites.
The threat I see from this is the potential that you cannot avoid having your real name linked to your avatar's... or you would have to go out of your way to maintain explicitly seperate online persona's: one for your actual name, and one for every avatar you choose!
I can see your viewpoint in your post, and I have thought about this extreme at times myself. I'm not much of a socially broad person -- I usually only keep in contact with a select few close friends at at time (and family at all times of course).
It seems like going the other way, however, is a bit extreme.. why not just disable the Wall (definitely do-able) features of the sites? In addition, keep a minimum profile and do not update it-- with no updates on Facebook, one can easilly go incognito -- I've noticed that I only get wallposts when I've recently updated my profile, since that moves me onto the "Updated friends list" and puts me out on the radar..
Yes, but facebook's limited profile options are *extremely weak*.
They have only 1 setting for 1 entire list. What they need to do is have multiple categories that you can customize (different "privacy levels") and then have multiple lists, one list for each category.
The problem with what there is now is that there are some people I need to block most info, some who I want to block other info, and some just a few info.
Also, the problem with the limited profile is: say you limit a friend (or coworker) A and B, but you don't mind friend (coworker) C from seeing it. But what if A and B are friends with C, and they see through C that they were limited? So does this mean you need to limit coworker C? But you don't want to.. but if you must, then limit C. But what about friends (co-workers) D, E, F?
I mean, cmon, get real. We are so far out from needing "robot ethics" that drafting a charter now borders on SK being "attention whores". I assume it's also because they want to be the first nation to draft robot rules, but this borders on ludicrous. The South Korean government has more issues to take care of than this..
Holy smokes, I never knew that particular incident about Amazon.com.. did it ever make the big news? I'm thinking that something like this should've caused so much consumer anguish / mistrust / lost confidence in Amazon that they would have had lost a lot of business.
Haven't you gone to www.gamespy.com and taken a look at the online gaming stats?
Counterstrike still beats everything out there; even with counterstrike source (CS 2), at peak times around 45,000 play CS1 and 45,000 play CS2, while the 3rd game lags a distant 3rd (Battlefield 2) with not even close to half of those numbers.
So, yes many have sickened of CS, but there are still a whole truckload of ppl that play it (CS1 alone, not counting CS2).
there is a BIG change though. Facebook changed their advanced search which used to be awesome, to a new lame-o search that sucks. i think they did it to prevent stalking but it could be the death of their site. Search is the big thing, and if someone replicated Facebook but with AWESOME search (say, Google), Facebook would be dead in an instant.
you used to be able to look people up by cross-listing Concentration, and say, Year, and say, interests. Not anymore. LAME!
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The thing with what you said is, that most of the time the "Foo", in this case WoW, is the lowest common denominator for the group. Which is great, people like meeting other people with possibly diverse interests.
But often times groups that meet face-to-face have a particular interest; if they "switch" and "stop" playing WoW, boom, there goes their common denominator. Unless they 'hit-it-off' in some other way, the group will most likely wither from lack of commonality..
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Nerds are "socially disinclined" as well but popular belief tends to point to nerds as being "smarter". amirite amirite?
Everyone knows from civ2 that the fastest way to catch up when behind in tech is to send in scores of kamikaze diplomats to steal the tech....
Your point that, because he limited the userbase initially, he was not out to make money or make something big -- I disagree. Simply, he was the one who had the vision that he could grow a huge userbase by building upon tiers and tiers of *coolness* leveraged by hierarchies of "in" -- 1) harvard-in 2) ivy-league schools-in 3) stanford / berkeley-in 4) the rest, etc
I starting using fb about 3-4 months after its creation (#8 college i think) and the reason why *everyone at school* hopped on (as opposed to friendster which was already around) was *because* of its exclusivity -- we felt exclusive being in a college only type social network, and to boot, the top-10 colleges.
Things started becoming uncool when people from un college networks started joining, but that's a hard problem to solve when your userbase graduates every 4-5 years and becomes "uncool" pretty much after graduating.
ok, what does "rooting your phoen and tethering it mean" in your context of a 3g usb modem?
Nice post. Cool for an engineer (like me) who is about to begin his career. However, "Be useful to somebody; be a burden to no one." also works for engineering (I feel like you may be implying some service oriented industry). I think that's what engineers (hardware/software) ultimately find fulfilling: the promise of doing something cool that ultimately benefits thousands if not millions and allows them to derive joy from.. a series of if-else statements or some logic gates tied up in cool ways :) Maybe I'm being an ideologist and once I get into the actual industry (whether it be hw or sw) I will end up like those mentioned in the OP -- disgruntled and ruined. Lol?
Every day, facebook becomes worse and worse. The apps are pointless, and the site is slower and cumbersome (compared to its spritely version in 2004 when it came out). It is fun to be tagged in photos with your friends, and to post on each others' "walls", but that's about it. During college it was great to use, since everyone is growing up and want to meet new people. However, after college theres not as much use for it and I find myself barely using it.. its basically functioning as a "bridge" between when you just meet someone, to when you get their IM and you chat on IM instead.
The only thing keeping facebook going is that its achieved critical mass. I can see Google one day knocking out Facebook easily, since everyone now has gmail and eventually Facebook will need to move from "stupid, 3rd party, spyware apps" to real apps such as Calendars, maps, and such -- and google already has these features.
Zuckerberg should have sold for $750 million or whatever was offered.
I am a casual gamer and tech-average slashdotter, but what the heck is GLSL ???
I think they just wanted an excuse to use the Quake game icon...
And as a Canadian.. just cuz we are closer, we should know the American zipcodes any better?? Nope, not really :)
Proud Canadian.
Ahh I remember those days.. when I was a kid in Canada and my brother watched 90210 (but I didn't). The only thing useful to me about that show was an easy ZIP I could always use for everything and anything. LOL
First post!!!!!!!!
> I think we'll see more and more that people are going to be known by their avatars rather than their actual name as data becomes universal like this.
What's funny is that I go out of my way to make sure my avatar is unknown, in the sense that there is no tie with my real name in any way, on any website/forum/whatever. If you google my avatar, all you find is which websites I used that avatar, and what I posted using that avatar, but nothing else about me. In fact, I even switch avatars; one avatar for different websites.
The threat I see from this is the potential that you cannot avoid having your real name linked to your avatar's... or you would have to go out of your way to maintain explicitly seperate online persona's: one for your actual name, and one for every avatar you choose!
I can see your viewpoint in your post, and I have thought about this extreme at times myself. I'm not much of a socially broad person -- I usually only keep in contact with a select few close friends at at time (and family at all times of course).
It seems like going the other way, however, is a bit extreme.. why not just disable the Wall (definitely do-able) features of the sites? In addition, keep a minimum profile and do not update it-- with no updates on Facebook, one can easilly go incognito -- I've noticed that I only get wallposts when I've recently updated my profile, since that moves me onto the "Updated friends list" and puts me out on the radar..
Yes, but facebook's limited profile options are *extremely weak*.
They have only 1 setting for 1 entire list. What they need to do is have multiple categories that you can customize (different "privacy levels") and then have multiple lists, one list for each category.
The problem with what there is now is that there are some people I need to block most info, some who I want to block other info, and some just a few info.
Also, the problem with the limited profile is: say you limit a friend (or coworker) A and B, but you don't mind friend (coworker) C from seeing it. But what if A and B are friends with C, and they see through C that they were limited? So does this mean you need to limit coworker C? But you don't want to.. but if you must, then limit C. But what about friends (co-workers) D, E, F?
dude, u got ur order all wrong.
wonders you MUST have to dominate any game in deity:
1) pyramid
2) statue of liberty
3) leonardo's workshop
helpful:
1) great library
make a very fast push to democracy then having done the wonder trick, u have a very fast switch to fundamentalism.
ur tech will suck, so great library helps alot.
the rest of the wonders you can start buying once u pwn using fundamentalism, since u will be so freakin rich
lol
The link in the article doesn't work. Someone link the youtube award gallery please
AEGIS also reported that having their system in a particular galaxy offered +! radius detection of submerged galaxies.
/ok that was horrible
//back to work
I mean, cmon, get real. We are so far out from needing "robot ethics" that drafting a charter now borders on SK being "attention whores". I assume it's also because they want to be the first nation to draft robot rules, but this borders on ludicrous. The South Korean government has more issues to take care of than this..
Holy smokes, I never knew that particular incident about Amazon.com.. did it ever make the big news? I'm thinking that something like this should've caused so much consumer anguish / mistrust / lost confidence in Amazon that they would have had lost a lot of business.
Where was the consumer uproar??
are you referencing the hip hop song... "yeah its the OPP, yeah you know me! its the opp, yea u know me!"
Haven't you gone to www.gamespy.com and taken a look at the online gaming stats?
Counterstrike still beats everything out there; even with counterstrike source (CS 2), at peak times around 45,000 play CS1 and 45,000 play CS2, while the 3rd game lags a distant 3rd (Battlefield 2) with not even close to half of those numbers.
So, yes many have sickened of CS, but there are still a whole truckload of ppl that play it (CS1 alone, not counting CS2).
Yep. MOD PARENT UP
there is a BIG change though. Facebook changed their advanced search which used to be awesome, to a new lame-o search that sucks. i think they did it to prevent stalking but it could be the death of their site. Search is the big thing, and if someone replicated Facebook but with AWESOME search (say, Google), Facebook would be dead in an instant. you used to be able to look people up by cross-listing Concentration, and say, Year, and say, interests. Not anymore. LAME!
best analysis i've read so far. MOD THIS GUY UP
The thing with what you said is, that most of the time the "Foo", in this case WoW, is the lowest common denominator for the group. Which is great, people like meeting other people with possibly diverse interests.
But often times groups that meet face-to-face have a particular interest; if they "switch" and "stop" playing WoW, boom, there goes their common denominator. Unless they 'hit-it-off' in some other way, the group will most likely wither from lack of commonality..