Thought experiment:<p>I'm going to try and synthesize a strategy for facebook from Marc Andreessen's post on platforms from yesterday, the follow-on discussion on AVC, and this post from Bubblegen...<p>1. Getting "open": for the near/medium term, facebook needs to become a "level 3" platform, where complementary services are able to <i>themselves</i> capture value. (I suspect that the facebook people see this already, but, then again, they might be "evil" ;-)<p>2. In the long run, the Net itself is the "platform"; I don't know what the service they might provide in that world (5+ years?), but I suspect it's <i>nothing</i> like the facebook of today. Maybe something that manages the portability of your personal info/history?<p>Any thoughts?
not a good article. the "ponzi" theory is good, simply because the advertisers pumping $ into the network haven't gotten proven returns (lots of the FB networks that have venture backing are pumping in their own ad inventory and subsidizing their own networks - not sustainable). the whole "evil" thing is laughable though. wtf?