tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11027429.post1156610839653524087..comments2023-12-05T08:01:04.938+00:00Comments on Media Monkey: Rise of FacebookMedia Monkeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03115392395816508882noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11027429.post-30442283231510197692007-05-27T17:09:00.000+01:002007-05-27T17:09:00.000+01:00Hm, odd, I've never even heard of Bebo or Piczo - ...Hm, odd, I've never even heard of Bebo or Piczo - are they maybe more popular in the US? In my world, it's all about facebook. Myspace is just too annoying for words, pretty much evry time I log on there's an error of some sort.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11027429.post-24507380743375318492007-05-27T14:28:00.000+01:002007-05-27T14:28:00.000+01:00Good analysis!The thing which - to me - is excitin...Good analysis!<BR/><BR/>The thing which - to me - is exciting about Facebook, is the fact that the guys who are developing it have actually managed to begin to crystallise the whole thing as a DEVELOPMENT PLATFORM - the only part of which end users will see being the new "applications" section. As a developer myself, I find this very very exciting.<BR/><BR/>MySpace's growth can only slow, and, in fact, will probably start to stall quite soon if it hasn't already. The reason for this is because their platform is a bunch of big, smelly pants. It's based on technology that's 4 or 5 years out of date, but at the scale to which it has deployed it will cost millions and involve many man-years of work to re-engineer. They are doing it - and they have the money - but it will take time, and during this time there is a very valid and very real race to overtake.<BR/><BR/>Facebook does not YET suffer from platform obsolescence, and judging by how "on it" the developers are - every software development trend I can think of, from Agile to AJAX to Open Source has made its way into their platform - they may never suffer at all.<BR/><BR/>Facebook will cement it's popularity through inclusion, much as Flickr and Google have. But without careful management and vision of how widely this inclusion can scopes, they run the risk of giving away all their assets and closing off their revenue routes (by, for example, making advertising unnecessary or invisible under some circumstances).<BR/><BR/>But it's the fact that they have an open API which will keep developers coming, and what they get back out of that is the possibility of someone else coming up with a killer "Facebook app" for free.<BR/><BR/>And as I'm a developer, maybe I'll be the one to make it, if I can think something up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com