Rambling: Facebook Platform

Facebook is the most-watched Web 2.0 company in recent times, and as the IPO becomes more likely, Facebook is likely to become the most commercially successful Web 2.0 company. I believe that if Facebook is really successful, its long-term impact on the internet industry will not be under Google. As Slate.com columnist Christopher Beam said: "The growing users of this website are the elite of the company with a good reputation and a clean social image." "More importantly, unlike the general site users are just an abstract concept, on Facebook, you know exactly who they are."

In May this year, the Facebook platform was officially launched, immediately winning a full house, and in less than two months, the platform has brought together nearly 2000 apps, Facebook's appeal, or the benefits that Facebook can bring to other Internet companies. Many people think that Facebook is becoming windows on the Internet. With the success of Facebook, and the sheer volume of high-quality, loyal users, Facebook appears to be the leader of the new platform and the new industry chain. It was the role Microsoft had played in the PC era, with Microsoft connecting hardware, software and IT services as a whole, with woe and interdependence.

Ilike is a good example. The music-sharing site has gained a total of 3 million registered users for more than half a year since it was online last October. But since they developed a music app for the Facebook platform, two weeks have brought in 3 million new subscribers and are growing at a rate of 300,000 registered users a day, making them the fastest-growing music service site for users (about Ilike's miraculous growth, See more detailed statement of flowers. On Facebook, the virus spreads far more quickly than the previous PC platform.

This may also be a problem for Facebook. On the PC platform, the installation of what software is basically a user completely autonomous behavior, the user has the freedom of choice (except rogue software). But on Facebook, users are not isolated individuals, each user is part of one or more networks, and individuals become neurons in a huge neural network. Each user can easily invite all of his friends to enable an application, and as more and more friends join the game, you will face countless new applications every day. To be honest, I don't have the time to try these apps one by one, or to judge the value of these applications, because I've been flooded with requests for applications that flood.

If the PC platform is the core of independent applications, Google platform is based on information integration and network synergy as the core, then the Facebook platform is a popular as the core platform. From this point of view, Facebook quickly becomes a viral marketing platform, it is a normal natural development. No one doubts Facebook's influence, but I still wonder if the platform's load-bearing capacity is as big as it might be, or is Facebook enough to play the role of a new portal?

I have more than 100 friends on Facebook, and I'm more than a person who has thousands of friends. But even so, the friends of the activities I also basically focus on, I have to from the "News Feed" to cancel most of the application of the first page display rights. I don't know how people with thousands of of friends are coping with flood-like information about their friends ' activities. The value of Facebook as a serious social platform is obvious. What I'm worried about is how long the user's interest in trying something new will last, and how long the user will be able to keep up with the new distractions. These will determine Facebook's ability to load. Will the first ilike-induced viral transmission appear on the second and third ilike?

I use Google reader to read blog, using Flickr to browse and release photos, with watercress selected books, Ufida listen to songs, with potatoes to see the video, with donews Write blog ... Integrating all of this into the Facebook platform, is that "one-stop" really what I need?