Should Facebook Be Worried?
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Bwah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! The plan is working. Soon every popular internet website will destroy one another (except for the Escapist of course) and Snooty Enterprises Inc reigns supreme over the Info Superhighway.
/nonsensical rambling.
/nonsensical rambling.
Well, Google is interested so something is going to change. Either way I still like Google a hell of a lot more than Facebook.
So, in short, Google is attempting to kill Facebook by beating it at its own game. Fuck yeah! I don't really care who wins, but if it tears the Facebook Community apart, I'm all for it. I reaaaallly don't like that site.
I've never really liked Facebook, but I'm not usually into social networking sites.
But my thought in this is that I'm going to need to replace my T-shirt that says, "No, I don't have a F*cking Facebook!" With one that says- "No, I don't have a F*cking Google-novel!"
Or whatever they call it. I bet it's not much more sophisticated than that.
But my thought in this is that I'm going to need to replace my T-shirt that says, "No, I don't have a F*cking Facebook!" With one that says- "No, I don't have a F*cking Google-novel!"
Or whatever they call it. I bet it's not much more sophisticated than that.
Google can't beat Facebook with this generation.
If everyone has already established themselves on Facebook and they have all their friends together and all their photos why would they go go through the trouble of reestablishing all that all over again on an entirely new system which many of their friends may not even be a part of.
If everyone has already established themselves on Facebook and they have all their friends together and all their photos why would they go go through the trouble of reestablishing all that all over again on an entirely new system which many of their friends may not even be a part of.
A couple years before Facebook, people used Myspace. You'd find it funny how quickly people will switch given to whatever the current trend is.Vestsao said:
This. I'm kinda skeptical that the Zynga gamers are all that dedicated. I always got the feeling they play the games because they check facebook anyway. On the other hand, a lot of people might be slow to give up all the money they've sunk into their farms and whatnot. Hard to say how this one will go, but I'm interested to see how it falls.Pugiron said:
Also, articles like this sound like they were paid for by google. It's only good to jump to them if everyone does, and articles that assume everyone will jump will only ensure that everyone thinks everyone else will. (This paragraph ended up harder to read than I had intended
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Go for it, Google. I love watching a company commit suicide.
If the article is to be believed, Google is setting up to be the next Microsoft. Sherman, set your way-back machine for about 15 years ago. Microsoft is expanding in all directions. Their gross revenue is rising faster than a party balloon underwater. So fast and so much so that not a single non-pre-existing company can start up, and no other company can survive.
Enter: The US Government.
The FBI steps in, serving Microsoft with an ultimatum. The United States has laws that forbiding the creation of monopolies. Mircosoft has two options, relingquish control of several facets of their business model, or shut down completely with heavy fines. Microsoft let go of several significant patents and proprietary holdings, and other companies brought competition back into the market.
Now we have Google, a giant on the internet and growing daily. With each new site that gains sufficient popularity, Google aquires them without a second thought, expanding their business and simulatneously pushing out the competition. And now Google wants to corner the market on social networking. Google is steadily working its way up to total ownership of the internet. Google has partnerships with ebay and amazon, which already dominate the online shopping industry. If this isn't a monopoly in the works, I'm not sure what is.
Google needs to watch their step. All the money in the world can't save them when the US Government decides that they want it.
If the article is to be believed, Google is setting up to be the next Microsoft. Sherman, set your way-back machine for about 15 years ago. Microsoft is expanding in all directions. Their gross revenue is rising faster than a party balloon underwater. So fast and so much so that not a single non-pre-existing company can start up, and no other company can survive.
Enter: The US Government.
The FBI steps in, serving Microsoft with an ultimatum. The United States has laws that forbiding the creation of monopolies. Mircosoft has two options, relingquish control of several facets of their business model, or shut down completely with heavy fines. Microsoft let go of several significant patents and proprietary holdings, and other companies brought competition back into the market.
Now we have Google, a giant on the internet and growing daily. With each new site that gains sufficient popularity, Google aquires them without a second thought, expanding their business and simulatneously pushing out the competition. And now Google wants to corner the market on social networking. Google is steadily working its way up to total ownership of the internet. Google has partnerships with ebay and amazon, which already dominate the online shopping industry. If this isn't a monopoly in the works, I'm not sure what is.
Google needs to watch their step. All the money in the world can't save them when the US Government decides that they want it.
I'm sure they could hire Robert Pattinson or Taylor Lautner (or both) for a photo shoot standing around wearing Googlebook shirts.Vestsao said:
Google has been running experiments that involve advanced web browser gaming (check out WebGL if you are curious), so yeah, they might set up a compelling game platform.
The assumption that Google automatically dominates everything is ridiculous though. Google has/had social experiments that never grew big (Wave, Orkut) and their tablet offering (ChromeOS) hasn't exactly taking over the world either.
The assumption that Google automatically dominates everything is ridiculous though. Google has/had social experiments that never grew big (Wave, Orkut) and their tablet offering (ChromeOS) hasn't exactly taking over the world either.
I shall not hush, and the US Government certainly is all powerful, within the United States. And Google is based in the US. Think what you like, but the laws are written so convolutedly complex that the Government could shut them down if they so chose, and imprison any of the executives in the process.Awesomnity said:
It may not necessarily be right, but it is possible. Whether the FBI has to go digging through the execs and companies financial records, or they simply ran their company a little shoddy for a couple of weeks, they can find or create problems out of the smallest things.