readwriteweb.com — The future of both email and start pages is in social networking, according to Yahoo, but what's really at issue here are two concepts that Yahoo execs didn't name explicitly, but which will be familiar to most of the readers here. RSS and Attention Data.
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zachshmackNov 14, 2007
Basically, you can sit around for hours and find out what every single person you were ever friends with (or maybe just met once) ate for lunch, what they wore to that skanky party, who they're voting for, and what they're writing on other people's Walls.
lazyfishermanNov 14, 2007
think about the stuff people say casually in conversation.... yeah... lasting forever in the site... it's a goldmine.. gotta sift through a lot of the dirt to find nuggets but they are there
Closed AccountNov 14, 2007
Two points: First, if everyone on Facebook was allocated email space it WOULD just be AOL. Second, Yahoo! has clearly adopted Microsoft's fan boy business model of chasing and copying every "new" idea that comes along, then makes a poorly-built imitation instead of developing the organic ideas of the people they employ. The real interesting work that engineers at Yahoo! create regularly gets squashed by management in Microsoft-like fashion.
antichrisNov 14, 2007
i think his point was with respect to fb being closed (proprietary apps, messaging, feeds etc..) - like aol was closed until they died
arcanisNov 14, 2007
You are not. I think it's overrated, just as all other social networking s**t is
techmonkey4uNov 15, 2007
Social networking is not the end-all, be-all. It's just the latest thing and it's getting pretty old.
vanza001Nov 16, 2007
Well the facebook only started when I was like a junior in college so everyone I knew already had pubes but they still used and still use the facebook