The Zeitgeist

So, Google is going after Twitter and Facebook it seems with Buzz.   Buzz could be an interesting platform, but here are 4 key reasons why it’s probably not going to take off just yet:

Google doesn’t get user experience.
People are already invested in Twitter and Facebook
APIs Matter
Poorly Thought Out Defaults

Quantitative vs. Qualitative
Google is a data driven [...]

Tags: api, buzz, client, FaceBook, Google, Privacy, safety, Security, sns, Social Networks, twitter

This past Sunday’s NYTimes has a great article on FaceBook’s changing demographics.  The article starts out talking about the social “ick” factor for some 20-somethings that their Moms are on FaceBook (I’ve seen this first hand — a college friend of mine found her 18yr old daughter berating her — online on FaceBook no less [...]

Tags: FaceBook, Social Networks, User Defined Communities

Joe Davison over at Name Strategy has put together a very interesting post that dismantles any idea that writing apps for FaceBook might be a good thing under their current platform development license…
As more and more people open up their platforms, this is going to become a recurring theme: the idea that even beyond [...]

Tags: FaceBook, Licenses, Social Networks, Terms and Conditions, Web2.0