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I think it’s a bit much to be calling Facebook’s platform the “new social operating system,” but then I guess when your blog is called Knowledge@Wharton you kind of have to pump things up a bit. What I do think has been happening is that more and
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For us, Facebook is one of a few important places GigPark should be available. Since GigPark is all about finding services with the help your friends, we need to be where friends communicate - and Facebook is definitely one of those places.
You're dead right that Facebook is a great place to test ideas, but I think for services like ours that get better when your friends are involved, offering your service through Facebook is almost essential.
I believe being platform agnostic is the name of the game. There was a good quote from James Hong of Hot or Not about this in a TechCruch article last year: "I have really stopped thinking of Hot or Not as a destination site and worry about how many people are using our service no matter where they are ... People will go where they will go. The world is evolving."
7 months ago
advantage of network effects, then you need to find people wherever they
are. Thanks for that.
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makes that even easier now, it seems.