Comments on: Google to Facebook: I Want to Suck Your (Social) Blood http://gigaom.com/2007/10/31/google-to-facebook-i-want-to-suck-your-social-blood/ The Business of Technology Tue, 02 Dec 2008 12:48:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Welcome to the Live Oak Blog | Live Oak Blog http://gigaom.com/2007/10/31/google-to-facebook-i-want-to-suck-your-social-blood/#comment-714353 Welcome to the Live Oak Blog | Live Oak Blog Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:41:22 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/10/31/google-to-facebook-i-want-to-suck-your-social-blood/#comment-714353 <p>[...] http://gigaom.com/2007/10/31/google-to-facebook-i-want-to-suck-your-social-blood/#more-10577 [...]</p> [...] (link) [...]

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]]> By: With The Band - Zvi Band http://gigaom.com/2007/10/31/google-to-facebook-i-want-to-suck-your-social-blood/#comment-641365 With The Band - Zvi Band Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:13:45 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/10/31/google-to-facebook-i-want-to-suck-your-social-blood/#comment-641365 <p><strong>OpenSocial, Or Not</strong></p> OpenSocial, Or Not

]]> By: Anne Zelenka http://gigaom.com/2007/10/31/google-to-facebook-i-want-to-suck-your-social-blood/#comment-641136 Anne Zelenka Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:59:06 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/10/31/google-to-facebook-i-want-to-suck-your-social-blood/#comment-641136 <p>Right, Boris, who knows if this will get any traction at all. I don't personally find Facebook all that useful, because my social interaction online is spread across a bunch of different tools -- Twitter, blogging, wikis, discussion forums, etc. There are many benefits to centralizing in one place, of course, like security and privacy and keeping one main contact/friends list.</p> <p>Could be that web-as-social-network and Facebook coexist.</p> <p>I am intrigued to see how social applications embedded into non-social-network platforms might function. What will iGoogle look like when it's socially enabled, for example? What might web email look like with more social features? That's where I think the web-as-social-network gets interesting.</p> <p>Manuel: great article... especially your points about the necessity of a "spread" feature and combining a user-centric with an object-centric approach.</p> Right, Boris, who knows if this will get any traction at all. I don’t personally find Facebook all that useful, because my social interaction online is spread across a bunch of different tools — Twitter, blogging, wikis, discussion forums, etc. There are many benefits to centralizing in one place, of course, like security and privacy and keeping one main contact/friends list.

Could be that web-as-social-network and Facebook coexist.

I am intrigued to see how social applications embedded into non-social-network platforms might function. What will iGoogle look like when it’s socially enabled, for example? What might web email look like with more social features? That’s where I think the web-as-social-network gets interesting.

Manuel: great article… especially your points about the necessity of a “spread” feature and combining a user-centric with an object-centric approach.

]]> By: Manuel Vila http://gigaom.com/2007/10/31/google-to-facebook-i-want-to-suck-your-social-blood/#comment-640284 Manuel Vila Thu, 01 Nov 2007 07:11:05 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/10/31/google-to-facebook-i-want-to-suck-your-social-blood/#comment-640284 <p>Thanks Anne for this refreshing point of view! OpenSocial is a first step towards what I call the "Object Oriented Web" but it is still very far away. About social interactions you mentioned, there is one killer-feature-still-missing-everywhere, the "Spread" button:</p> <p>http://blog.kindalab.com/2007/10/26/information-spreading-through-social-networks/</p> Thanks Anne for this refreshing point of view! OpenSocial is a first step towards what I call the “Object Oriented Web” but it is still very far away. About social interactions you mentioned, there is one killer-feature-still-missing-everywhere, the “Spread” button:

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]]> By: Boris http://gigaom.com/2007/10/31/google-to-facebook-i-want-to-suck-your-social-blood/#comment-639999 Boris Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:24:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/10/31/google-to-facebook-i-want-to-suck-your-social-blood/#comment-639999 <p>It obviously remains to be seen how successful this whole OpenSocial thing really is. It's pretty easy to get excited about it and get caught up the hype -- especially when a name like Google is involved. I can't help but think Facebook isn't really going anywhere... switching costs are too high and I think it's nice having just one place to come to where you can generally socialize and interact. I'd like to think of Facebook as a home page for social web interaction. There are a lot of unanswered questions about this idea of, as you say, "web-as-social-network."</p> <p>If anything, the OpenSocial standard merely cuts the development time and costs for developers trying to go get on other networks. I can't complain about that, but as a developer, I'm not sure how appealing sites like Orkut, LinkedIn (talk about conservative), and Hi5 are.</p> <p>Guess time will tell.</p> It obviously remains to be seen how successful this whole OpenSocial thing really is. It’s pretty easy to get excited about it and get caught up the hype — especially when a name like Google is involved. I can’t help but think Facebook isn’t really going anywhere… switching costs are too high and I think it’s nice having just one place to come to where you can generally socialize and interact. I’d like to think of Facebook as a home page for social web interaction. There are a lot of unanswered questions about this idea of, as you say, “web-as-social-network.”

If anything, the OpenSocial standard merely cuts the development time and costs for developers trying to go get on other networks. I can’t complain about that, but as a developer, I’m not sure how appealing sites like Orkut, LinkedIn (talk about conservative), and Hi5 are.

Guess time will tell.

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