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Is facebook really worth 5 billion? If so Mark Zuckerberg should really consider selling more %. The way I see it facebook serves some basic wants but it is far

by naivehs 19y ago

Is facebook really worth 5 billion? If so Mark Zuckerberg should really consider selling more %. The way I see it facebook serves some basic wants but it is far from the ultimate website, which should take over within the next two years when web developers start to fullfill the potential of Internet. This article is extremely biased but the points made are legit. Facebook needs to develop its 2.0 or start selling while its stocks are high.

bct 19y ago
The Web is the ultimate website. That's what walled gardens forget.
- mariorz 19y ago
  wow you're easily influenced by internet memes, I have trouble seeing how a site with a reasonably complete api is a walled garden.
  - bct 19y ago
    I don't know much about their API so I can't comment on that, but things like this: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/06/facebook-opening-up-but-on-its-own-terms/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/06/facebook-opening-up-but... don't make them look like good citizens of the Web.
    - mariorz 19y ago
      the fact that you can't comment on it's api is a pretty big reason why you shouldn't be throwing out remarks like "walled garden" just because you see marketing sites (techcrunch) doing it, they too understand little about the technology they write about. btw facebook released an api method to do the status change thing you can get more info here: http://developers.facebook.com/documentation.php?v=1.0&doc=extperms http://developers.facebook.com/documentation.php?v=1.0&d...
  - henning 19y ago
    everything is behind login screens so search engines can't index it. you consume it and interact with it on facebook's terms. whether it's a data roach motel, or a walled garden, or whatever, it's basically an AOL bromide that will make a few people very rich and then eventually fade into mediocrity and obscurity.
    - mariorz 19y ago
      OMG gmail has a login screen.. eww data roach motel!!! the information you read on facebook be it notes by your friends, their pictures, relationship status or what have you, doesn't make much sense in a public search. Either you have never used facebook or simply don't understand it.
  - dzohrob 19y ago
    the answer to your troubles lies here: http://developers.facebook.com/terms.php http://developers.facebook.com/terms.php
    - mariorz 19y ago
      would you mind being more specific as to what part of the tos you consider to be so horribly closed? please complement your response with examples of other more open systems on the interwebs
axod 19y ago
Couple of years and we'll have all pretty much forgotten about facebook IMHO. It'd be a gross miscalculation for them to believe they're the next google. They should take what they can while they have the hype.

by naivehs 19y ago

bct 19y ago

The Web is the ultimate website. That's what walled gardens forget.

mariorz 19y ago
wow you're easily influenced by internet memes, I have trouble seeing how a site with a reasonably complete api is a walled garden.
- bct 19y ago
  I don't know much about their API so I can't comment on that, but things like this: http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/06/facebook-opening-up-but-on-its-own-terms/ http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/09/06/facebook-opening-up-but... don't make them look like good citizens of the Web.
  - mariorz 19y ago
    the fact that you can't comment on it's api is a pretty big reason why you shouldn't be throwing out remarks like "walled garden" just because you see marketing sites (techcrunch) doing it, they too understand little about the technology they write about. btw facebook released an api method to do the status change thing you can get more info here: http://developers.facebook.com/documentation.php?v=1.0&doc=extperms http://developers.facebook.com/documentation.php?v=1.0&d...
- henning 19y ago
  everything is behind login screens so search engines can't index it. you consume it and interact with it on facebook's terms. whether it's a data roach motel, or a walled garden, or whatever, it's basically an AOL bromide that will make a few people very rich and then eventually fade into mediocrity and obscurity.
  - mariorz 19y ago
    OMG gmail has a login screen.. eww data roach motel!!! the information you read on facebook be it notes by your friends, their pictures, relationship status or what have you, doesn't make much sense in a public search. Either you have never used facebook or simply don't understand it.
- dzohrob 19y ago
  the answer to your troubles lies here: http://developers.facebook.com/terms.php http://developers.facebook.com/terms.php
  - mariorz 19y ago
    would you mind being more specific as to what part of the tos you consider to be so horribly closed? please complement your response with examples of other more open systems on the interwebs

axod 19y ago

Couple of years and we'll have all pretty much forgotten about facebook IMHO. It'd be a gross miscalculation for them to believe they're the next google. They should take what they can while they have the hype.