It now makes sense when Zuckerberg turned down Yahoo, saying that he thinks they can do it better. It's probably showing that facebook will be trying to prove that, whatever can be done off their userbase, they will prove that they can do it better. They have enough leverage to do anything that's social network related, and they are guaranteed that their userbase will be computer-literate enough (because those who aren't, know someone who is, just across the hall) to adapt to any new features.
Launching your business straight off of facebook's API is nothing but stupid. Fine, not stupid, but a risk that without a miracle, tremendously outweighs the benefits. You basically expose yourself as the guniea pig. Clear the minefield for your opposition to trot through. And functionally, it looks like you tap into a ready-made, enormous free pool of users, but financially (in the per user aspect), you have zero users.
Looking at the landscape it shouldn't be hard to predict what kinds of services they will be adding, at least in the next 6 months or so. A questions service is probably the next low-hanging fruit. By now, answeru.com should be worried, like, hell worried.
FB's API is probably good for data mining. Other than that I don't know what.
It now makes sense when Zuckerberg turned down Yahoo, saying that he thinks they can do it better. It's probably showing that facebook will be trying to prove that, whatever can be done off their userbase, they will prove that they can do it better. They have enough leverage to do anything that's social network related, and they are guaranteed that their userbase will be computer-literate enough (because those who aren't, know someone who is, just across the hall) to adapt to any new features.
Launching your business straight off of facebook's API is nothing but stupid. Fine, not stupid, but a risk that without a miracle, tremendously outweighs the benefits. You basically expose yourself as the guniea pig. Clear the minefield for your opposition to trot through. And functionally, it looks like you tap into a ready-made, enormous free pool of users, but financially (in the per user aspect), you have zero users.
Looking at the landscape it shouldn't be hard to predict what kinds of services they will be adding, at least in the next 6 months or so. A questions service is probably the next low-hanging fruit. By now, answeru.com should be worried, like, hell worried.
FB's API is probably good for data mining. Other than that I don't know what.