Comments on: Facebook Platform http://aeroplanesoftware.com/facebook-platform/ Your Own Personal Sakai Ace Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:50:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Walid http://aeroplanesoftware.com/facebook-platform/comment-page-1/#comment-1943 Walid Sun, 03 Jun 2007 12:20:27 +0000 http://aeroplanesoftware.com/2007/06/02/facebook-platform/#comment-1943 <p>Hey Zach, Cool article and some very good points. The idea of a very large social network or a defacto one is interesting especially when you make the comparison with OS. You have 3 large OS the Microsoft one, Apple, and Unix based ones. Essentially Facebook or MySpace are like the OS of your digital lifestyle whether it is in communication (messaging, email, forums..etc), entertainment (photos, video, music..etc), storage and services (eg. TrustedPlaces). Question is are we moving towards an ecosystem where you have those social network OS and families of widgets and third party providers or are we moving towards loads of social networks interconnected via widgets and a common ID process such as Open ID.</p> <p>I think we're still in the very early stages to be able to make a judgement of what is to happen. However my best guess is that we're increasingly going to see consolidation in the market and small social networks either dying of or re-inventing themselves as third party providers to the larger social networks.</p> Hey Zach, Cool article and some very good points. The idea of a very large social network or a defacto one is interesting especially when you make the comparison with OS. You have 3 large OS the Microsoft one, Apple, and Unix based ones. Essentially Facebook or MySpace are like the OS of your digital lifestyle whether it is in communication (messaging, email, forums..etc), entertainment (photos, video, music..etc), storage and services (eg. TrustedPlaces). Question is are we moving towards an ecosystem where you have those social network OS and families of widgets and third party providers or are we moving towards loads of social networks interconnected via widgets and a common ID process such as Open ID.

I think we’re still in the very early stages to be able to make a judgement of what is to happen. However my best guess is that we’re increasingly going to see consolidation in the market and small social networks either dying of or re-inventing themselves as third party providers to the larger social networks.

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