Facebook Status Update: Becoming a Technological Lock-in
I'm sitting here looking at Facebook because, well, isn't everyone?
Reuters had a piece recently on how Facebook is on the way to becoming a "technological lock-in" on a par with the QWERTY keyboard.
"I think Facebook is the most valuable Internet commodity in existence, more so than Google, because they are positioning themselves to be our online identity via Facebook connect," Ravasio said. "It's your real name, it's your real friends…"
Of course, we had a different word for that a few years ago: MySpace.
The brief history of the Internet is littered with the ghosts of Websites that people have abandoned in their relentless pursuit of something newer, faster, better and cooler.
That's not quite MySpace yet. According to Reuters, MySpace still gets 57 million visitors a month – almost three times what Twitter gets. And Twitter's big, right? But Facebook is getting about 112 million visitors a month. And on average, Facebook visitors spend twice as much time on the Facebook site as MySpace visitor spend there.
TechCrunch recently interviewed Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Watch the interview, below…
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I agree with Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg that “Facebook is the most valuable Internet commodity in existence” – shreyam
I agree with Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg that “Facebook is the most valuable Internet commodity in existence” – shreyam
Did you guys hear about googles new social networking feature? There is alot of buzz going around about google buzz.
http://yovia.com/blogs/findanyone/2010/02/11/what-is-the-buzz-all-about/