Internet product Design: The connotation and extension of Weibo

Domestic micro-blogging, mostly pupil surpasses, "increase", "expand", "enrich" the original functions of Twitter. To tell you the truth, I'm not very impressed by the innovations of Weibo.

Twitter is extremely simple, and its rich scalability and flexibility depend on this simplicity. Just like go, chessboard, chess, and even the basic rules of the game, are simply not easy. A 19x19 plane chessboard, black-and-white chess pieces, the other side of the game even eat the rules, this simple, but contains the most abundant infinite changes, different dismount, can even develop into different schools.

Twitter allows all the information to be displayed on a flat surface with all the information in an equal position. Through simple follow relationships, information flows in different combinations. Anti-Weibo, added to the commentary, in fact, in the plane to add a depth dimension, this dimension is not visible on the plane, requiring special user intervention.

People who have studied logic probably remember that the greater the connotation, the smaller the extension. As we continue to add internal functionality, we are actually at the expense of reducing external possibilities. The core difference between Twitter and Weibo is that Twitter is focused on the outside, while microblogs are concerned about the inside. In Weiqi terms, Twitter is concerned about the outside, and Weibo is concerned about the field. From the marketing purposes, the field is their own, controllable, the external potential is public, not controllable.

Of course, the point on the chess board is limited (361), but the dot on the internet is unlimited, weakening its own extension, is almost equivalent to the small peasant economy.