Empire Facebook

A few days ago Facebook officially announced the presence of five hundred million active users. This is a milestone that reinforces Facebook royal status among social networks: now the company should be considered in a number of major ...

Half a billion users - and this number is only growing - demonstrates to everyone who was not paying attention primarily on Facebook, it's not a fad, but a powerful cultural factor shaping our social behavior. Even if you do not want to load data into your profile, you can not overlook the fact that it looks strange in these times, and you do not look appropriate with the times.

Service of such size as Facebook can not simply disappear in the foreseeable future, even if he reached his ... However, users are fickle, and a short history of the Internet knows dozens of cases where popular sites, or fade away completely (GeoCities), or lost its former luster (Yahoo), or dissolved in the periphery of the network (Friendster). How, then Facebook may lose its position in the Internet?.

a. Alternative services, software-based open-source.

Group kolledzherov, intoxicated ideas of Free Software, Facebook launched an alternative project, called the Diaspora. Having collected an impressive amount of donations to the 120 thousand dollars, a group of smartly writes code.

Meanwhile, there are other interesting events: start projects OneSocialWeb, Appleseed Project and WebFinger. Enough to bring these open source projects and protocols acceptable form, and someone is sure to make of them an incredibly powerful platform. Look at LAMP, if it is not clear where I'm going.

What it might be like? .

Although it sounds far-fetched, a recent poll shows that users love Facebook is not stronger than the love for the local cable, even if they recognize the Facebook in the same way as a useful and indispensable.

2. Google Me.

Rumor has it that the search giant has plans to build its own social network, though Google does not have specific developments in this sphere. Social network Orkut ( its own project Google) was not successful, and even seems to be inferior to their latest Facebook treasures in the face of India and Brazil.

Answer Google « Twitter ... Do not forget that there is also Google Talk, and Google Chat, and the profile of Google, and Google Pages, and Google Docs.

I wonder if anyone tried to Google Headquarters somehow link all of these services to create a site where the public really wants to hang a clock? .

3. LBS and mobile devices.

With the stunning popularity of handheld devices, initiated by iPhone, services, location-based (location-based services, LBS), such as Foursquare gaining an audience at the same rate, which was used to Facebook. Perhaps most importantly, what they are looking for an exciting opportunity to use game mechanics to create games spanning more services than Facebook.

To compete, the creators of Facebook have their own, very popular among users of mobile applications and intend to promote it further ... But there is a real danger that developers will bypass Facebook geeks like themselves, who will find a way to create a more powerful ...

4. Attack of the mail.

For those who like ... The need to communicate with anyone to cancel this can not, so we 'll see a return to the dance floor a la fifties, sitting in restaurants and prayer meetings.

As far as written communications, postal services are coping well with the delivery of letter post to anywhere in the country for a nominal fee. Postcards with pictures once again become enormous popularity. But as the postal service does not operate on weekends, email social network will only work on weekdays. Long live the post!.

5. project-mongering Zuckerberg.

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg changed the culture of the world, devoted to a single goal: to get people to share large amounts of information with many other people.

In a world where software can determine the nature of culture, Zuckerberg has succeeded in unwavering desire to make public the lion's share information about our privacy. He won a resounding victory over the prevailing cultural norms on almost all counts - except for the revealing of the project Beacon.

But, like all dreamers, in an attempt to bring his flock to the land flowing with milk and honey, he is in danger of going too far and become glaring in the desert, while the herd will remain obese pastures.

According to the materials: CNN.
Translator: Hope Pakhmutova.





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