The beginning of Social Applications
Posted by Jeff Sun, 24 Feb 2008 01:57:00 GMT
First - I guess I should introduce myself. I work with James and Linus at CLZ (I’m the ‘C’) We have a lot of thoughts about social applications, networks, the internet, and the world at large. This will be the place where we write them down and share with you. We love to bounce ideas off of people, so if you don’t agree - feel free to write a comment!
Well, I should really rename the title of this article because social applications have been ‘started’ since mid last year. But really the fight for ‘which is the best social network’ to be on is far from over. So far Facebook being first to the social web plugin architecture has been great - they enabled application developers like us to get hundreds of thousands of users with in a very short amount of time.
But - MySpace recently announced that they are launching their API. This battle is getting exciting. And what? Did I also hear that google is looking to buy Bebo? Talk about a strategic blockade to getting Facebook’s platform adopted. (story) NewsFlash: if you are a social network and looking to cash out, you can go get the FB platform and then ask google to buy you.