I wonder if this will work :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt8ihSpCCtQ
Another social platform, will people go for it just coz they can have fifty shades of emoticon ?
Facebook is dead.
Seriously, let's assume that they have something to offer other than lots of emotion (like they allude to trustworthy reviews free of spam) and they begin to threaten Facebook. What will happen?
Facebook will go into Lockdown and destroy it, like they did with Google Plus. When G+ was announced, Zuckerberg literally illuminated a neon sign by his office saying Lockdown and called the entire company there for a speech
QuoteRounding off another beaded string of platitudes, he changed gears and erupted with a burst of rhetoric referencing one of the ancient classics he had studied at Harvard and before. "You know, one of my favorite Roman orators ended every speech with the phrase Carthago delenda est. 'Carthage must be destroyed.' For some reason I think of that now." He paused as a wave of laughter tore through the crowd.
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/06/how-mark-zuckerberg-led-facebooks-war-to-crush-google-plus
THAT is what they will be facing.
That article, by the way, is an illuminating read.
I read something a couple days ago but can't remember where, about what happened at fb during G+ launch/announce. FB going into lockdown, people working (sleeping?) all day 7/week, had employees' families come by to hang out at the cafeteria, b/c they wouldn't see them otherwise.
The author went by G during this time on the weekend/evening and the parking lot was empty. They didn't realize they were actually at war.
Similar to the article you post, but slightly different bent and very interesting.
I'm pretty sure that is the article I linked above - it popped up in Pocket for me so it was probably doing the rounds.
If not, it's the article I meant to post - Google parking lot empty, FB employee caf open to families so people could see their kids.
Definitely same article
QuoteI decided to do some reconnaissance. En route to work one Sunday morning, I skipped the Palo Alto exit on the 101 and got off in Mountain View instead. Down Shoreline I went and into the sprawling Google campus. The multicolored Google logo was everywhere, and clunky Google-colored bikes littered the courtyards. I had visited friends here before and knew where to find the engineering buildings. I made my way there and contemplated the parking lot.
It was empty. Completely empty.
Of course, a century of productivity research shows that Google actually was doing the right thing. Working 60 hours per week begins to hurt productivity starting with the second week. This has been documented for factory workers and coders and it's actually worse for coders than it is for factory workers.
Actually almost two centuries. I believe some of the first research goes back to English factories in around 1835. It's why the labor movement was so successful in winning the 40-hour work week. Management had enough data to realize it was better for them too.
My brother, who was an expert in construction scheduling, says this was widely known in civil engineering circles too and was covered at university in the 1970s when he was getting his degree.
It's a different article for sure, but very similar. I scanned for a couple well written statements that aren't there, though most of the same info is conveyed. It was written in a bit different style that was more interesting to me. Probably a rewrite.
>Of course, a century of productivity research shows that Google actually was doing the right thing. Working 60 hours per week begins to hurt productivity starting with the second week. This has been documented for factory workers and coders and it's actually worse for coders than it is for factory workers.
Well, since they (G) got crushed, I don't think so. The difference being this was a temporary crunch time rather than SOP.
I just mean doing the right thing with respect to not working 80 hours per week for weeks on end under the illusion that was accomplishing more. The research on that is clear.
I do not mean that Google was doing the right thing globally. They didn't realize it was a battle to the death, they didn't realize Facebook had gone to war and more importantly, they probably didn't care. G+ was a distraction from their revenue source, rather than being their revenue source.
I remember when I was in college, there was fear that Reagan would take us to war in Central America. There was a speak out on campus and this guy was sitting to the side and finally he got up to the mic and said:
QuoteWhen I was your age, I wasn't in college. I was in Vietnam. If you go to war in Nicaragua, you're going to get your asses kicked, just like we got our asses kicked. We didn't get our asses kicked because we were bad soldiers. We were good soldiers and brave and fought hard. The difference between them and us was we knew that if we lost, we went home. They were home and if they lost, they had nowhere to go.
Ultimately American tactics and training and equipment were better, but we lost because we weren't home. I'd say that, in essence, is why Facebook won as well.
Very true and good points all around.
I'm sure if fb launched a real search option G wouldn't be business as usual.
Quote from: Drastic on July 28, 2016, 01:57:39 PM
I'm sure if fb launched a real search option G wouldn't be business as usual.
Ha! THAT would really be WAR!
And infinitely more fun to watch than the MS/Apple faceoff of old.
I'm really surprised they haven't tbh. It seems like a natural next step.
I wonder if they just don't see the ROI in search in the long term. I would think it would take years to even get to a Bing level and then many more years to pay off the investment. I'm not sure that search will be a lucrative business in say 15 years.
Apple has that mammoth war chest of cash, but I think they are keeping their powder dry for something better than what they see available right now. Perhaps the same with Facebook (like drone-based internet, for example?)
For a generally peaceful guy, I sure have gone "martial" in my metaphors and examples in this thread. I think what I really need is a social network that lets me express that emotion.