Suqashing Facebook (WAS: Conducting GNHLUG business on Facebook (was Stop! Unix Time))

Thomas Charron twaffle at gmail.com
Tue Feb 3 09:39:17 EST 2009


On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 4:41 AM, Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> wrote:
> On 02/02/2009 12:35 AM, VirginSnow at vfemail.net wrote:
>>  Instead of
>> hosting a Web site in order to host a Web site, people are putting
>> "pages" on third-party services like Facebook.
> Most people don't want websites, actually.  They want to share photos
> and prose with their friends.  Fewer still want to talk to everybody,
> and there are hosted blogging sites for that.  Way down the list is
> people who need their own websites anymore, and most of those people
> want a CMS.

  *BinGo*  People want the service, not the technology.

>> In addition, most of these "services" are mutually incompatible.  For
>> example, Myspace and Meetup can't talk to each other.
> I don't know which ones are participating today, but OpenSocial was
> designed to fix this.  I thought it was everybody-but-Facebook now, but
> I'm not paying close attention.  Tom, this and a Facebook app might help
> your scenario.

  And no one ends up caring.  Because it's awkward.  They look at it,
and using those particular clients always presents a less rich
environment then going to the site they like itself.

-- 
-- Thomas


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