The fastest growing community site in the recent past is not Facebook. Instead of MySpace blocking users from using Third-party services in their communities, Facebook has launched an open API F8 platform that allows third-party vendors and developers to add apps to Facebook's user profiles. The result has been a boom in application services, and Dave, the head of the platform business, said at the developer Meetup meeting that more than 40,000 developers have joined the project and have developed about 1500 applications.
From the Alexa curve, it can be seen that in the competition of MySpace and other communities, the platform open to the rapid growth of Facebook. (The blue curve represents Facebook)
I have to say, this is a astounding of creativity and decision-making, I admire. Facebook has explained to us that the relationship between peer sites is not just a life-and-death situation, but that it can be achieved in the open. Some of the most successful apps have gained a maximum of 85,000 users in 3 days, and Facebook has gained word-of-mouth, traffic, and user loyalty.
Looking back on the history of China's Internet, many web site vendors are trying to build a virtual wall, place their own users in it, and provide all-inclusive services to meet users ' full range of needs. The end result is often a state of being in the running. This is true from the earliest Yinghai, to the great portals of the present. The dispersion of energy means that the dilution of resources, it is difficult to pursue a comprehensive and meticulous operation, the use of experience can not be guaranteed, users will be willing to stay in your walls?
In the case of blogging services, when mashups are raging abroad, domestic web2.0 vendors find it difficult to embed their services in the mainstream BSP blog template. Most BSP provide blog service, do not respect the standard, do not support third-party services. For example, trackback references and XML-RPC (which are open to third parties) in the United States have received little support in China, and most bloggers do not allow users to use JavaScript when customizing. Most of China's internet users have been exposed to the mainstream of the blog services are actually castrated, such as Sina, Baidu and so on. For users, this is a bit like the policy of ignorance, they can not enjoy as good as the blogger service, Vision is limited, and for China's web2.0 Pathfinder, their living space has been a huge backlog. The most fascinating thing about the internet is its openness, and, bluntly, the Chinese internet giants are doing the opposite, ignoring their responsibilities, stifling openness and innovation.
And in the gap between the survival of the Chinese web2.0 website, can only rely on the cooperation between each other to seek a total win, such as the previous section to catch shrimp and rice cooperation. However, I believe that really good web services will be through word-of-mouth dissemination of its value, I look forward to the Chinese network in the emergence of more broad-minded and visionary leaders, such as Facebook open platform in China can also be born, when I must applauded for it.
