Truth speaks, Kottke nailed the oh-so-new Facebook hype with his Facebook is the new AOL post:
As it happens, we already have a platform on which anyone can communicate and collaborate with anyone else, individuals and companies can develop applications which can interoperate with one another through open and freely available tools, protocols, and interfaces. It’s called the internet and it’s more compelling than AOL was in 1994 and Facebook in 2007.
Interesting keynote from Scott Heiferman, who developed a Sony “app” on AOL back in ‘94: Strangely, many young facebookizens aren’t very net savvy (facebook *is* their internet) & they have little desire to go beyond the walled garden — just like the old AOL users.
UPDATE: Sorry folks, corrected the version. Should’ve looked up in wiki, not in other blogs / websites.
From my point of view is Facebook a big piece of wasting time, apparently the guys behind it ( the Mark Zuckerberg ) just want to make money with it, like the News Corp. Myspace deal. Even Michael Arrington of Techcrunch and Valleywag were asking when they’re going sell it the Myspace way.
Interesting note of 9Rules: they claim themselves as the world’s largest blog community, comprised of hundreds of authors from around the globe, writing on dozens of interesting topics. Err, what? Biggest community? Are those folks serious?
on Jun29 07We’re the folks behind Facebook? Nah, if that were true, we would have taken the $1B offer.
on Oct30 07Wow.. thanks for this blog.
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I thought i was the only one to think Facebook is a garbage piece of trash. You feel “claustrophobic”, I don’t even know why everyone’s using it, FACEBOOK = GARGAGE. Rather use myspace or friendster[poor friendster
FACEBOOK = overrated, overhyped.