by hectorcuevas on May 30, 2010 in Usability and Design
These are some of the pitfalls awaiting Facebook contenders:
Technology:
Don’t think it’s all about technology. In the Internet, it’s not really about technology, even if it’s something fancy like real-time communication with your friends.
Patents. These days it’s hard to tell the difference between technology and patents. Feel free to say I put them in the wrong category, but ignore them at your own peril.
by hectorcuevas on May 29, 2010 in Social networking
Everyone wants to kill Facebook for privacy exposure (again). But this time it seems the problem has reached the mainstream, complete with a Time cover. The Diaspora project got lots of publicity from this, but I’m afraid they won’t fare much better than the others (don’t feel bad if you didn’t know there were others).
Open source contenders should avoid thinking Facebook is just a piece of software (or that just having a working piece of software is enough); they should also refudiate the myth of the “global village”.
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