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Facebook Home and Dogfooding Gruber:
Facebook Home isn’t an iPhone idea. It’s just a bad idea. Facebook is an app, not a platform.A good home screen interface is one that accommodates any app or service, not just one.
Absolutely.
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Coming Soon To Facebook: Video Ads In an attempt to open up a new revenue stream for shareholders the social network is bringing videos to the newsfeed.
Whoopee.
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Facebook deserted by millions of users in biggest markets Facebook’s dominance in the social media world has come under threat from newer services such as Instagram and Path
Elements of this article are sound – I do think this poses a risk and a problem, but FB losing users to Path? Stupid, and to say that Facebook is losing users to Instagram, a FB-owned business, is also a very silly thing to write and totally undermines your article message. Just invites trolling.
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ParisLemon: If Microsoft Were The Inventors Of Facebook Home, They'd Have Invented Facebook Home Here we go again.
Frank Shaw, Microsoft’s head of communications, took to the company blog today to “congratulate” Facebook on the launch of Facebook Home. Except that he’s not really congratulating Facebook, he’s passive-aggressively signaling the old “WE DID THIS FIRST!!!” whiny bullshit…
It’s all about execution. MSFT executed badly, as they have done on every product for the last few years.
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Everything that’s so unbelievably wrong with Facebook Home. That third “piece of information” is an ad.
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Four Burning Questions And four burning questions:- I have spent a lot of time with the redesign and I am not clear how this solves Facebook’s two major challenges: retention and engagement. Yes, it is lovely, and the notifications are sort of nicer, but it still does nothing to make me come back more often and actually if anything I will spend less time. I can skim photos and bounce much faster.
- The younger demographic, who is leaving the service (though they are still part of the zombie mob), are not going to come back because of the changes.
- The actual news feed, despite the attractive photos and bigger visuals, is still messy and much less useful that it used to be.
- The biggest question that arises from this cosmetic facelift: what happened to Facebook’s ability to actually learn, adapt and become more human with the feed? In other words, has their ability to sift and make sense of data hit a glass ceiling? My guess is yes.
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On a test this afternoon, the following sponsored post from Rosetta Stone popped up as the second item in my News Feed. It takes up massive real estate in the main feed, and when combined with the other right-rail ads, that’s a full two-thirds of a computer screen of advertising.
All you need to know about Facebook’s new News Feed design.
via The Atlantic Wire.
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In contrast to the last post, this should put some things in perspective. It’s not time to write off FB yet, but it is time to get bored of them. Notice the trailing up of Tumblr (the most exciting platform), Pinterest and Instagram.
Perhaps the next wave of social brings back anonymity. We can have our public, named and identifiable Facebooks (full of boring, safe, family- and company-friendly information), and then we can have our secret, more private (but openly shared) Tumblrs, Twitters and whatnot.
Food for thought.
(via thenextweb)
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The age of the brag is over: why Facebook might be losing teens. I’m leaving because a Forbes writer asked his son’s best friend Todd if Facebook was still cool and the friend said no, and plus none of HIS friends think so either, even Leila who used to love it, and this journalism made me reconsider the long-term viability of the company.
– Blake Ross, former Director of Product at Facebook.
Ellis Hamburger, reporting for The Verge:
Facebook admitted in its annual 10-K report that it might be losing “younger users” to “other products and services similar to, or as a substitute for, Facebook.”
Exactly why I’ve given FB a hard time on this blog – they’re boring; they’re the Microsoft of Social. Dull and uninspiring but totally pervasive.
Facebook won’t “go away” like MySpace has; it’s just too big at over 1 billion users. It’s going to serve as the Yellow Pages of the Internet, and it will be boring and ad-riddled with minimal engagement in less than 5 years. Mark my words.
What comes next? I don’t know, but I hope it’s essentially what Facebook was when it was just for College Kids, and it costs $1/month for complete and utter privacy plus no ads.
1 billion users paying $1/month is a healthy revenue. I’ve always thought FB should do this, but it won’t.
I hope FB is superceded. I think Social is the most cyclical and behavioural-driven sector in Tech. Long live the next wave.
