Re:Facebook CTO Adam D’Angelo to leave the company
by ph0rque on Monday May 12, 2008 @07:41AM
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I would argue that my really close friends are people who I don't email much, but call instead. So your killer app would have to have access to my cell phone call history in addition to email history, and build the social network on a combination of calls and emails.
Re:Facebook CTO Adam D’Angelo to leave the company
by tdavis on Monday May 12, 2008 @04:37PM
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Right, I recognize that and agree that the top of the top is still phone calls, but as far as the web as a communication medium goes, e-mail is still the most used and most important.
Plus I couldn't immediately think of a non-intrusive way to collect call history from any phone so that idea was out ;-)
Re:Facebook CTO Adam D’Angelo to leave the company
by brlewis on Monday May 12, 2008 @11:36AM
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I've created a very effective way to keep family and old friends up to date on your doings when life gets busy (especially w kids) by letting digital photos create the chronology, and letting you send your doings by email in a mixed text/photo format whenever you find time to catch up. I hope you're right that solving this problem can be a killer app.
I think this is a sentiment of many people either actively or passively; most people have far more "friends" on Facebook than they would truly consider friends. It's more of a place for acquaintances than a place for true friends / people you keep in contact with on a regular basis.
It is for this very reason that I maintain that the "killer app" (if there is/can be one) for "web 2.0" is not going to be a social network like Facebook, but something that enhances e-mail to include these popular social network functions (or an app that uses who your correspond with via e-mail as an indication of who your actual friends are and keep you updated on _their_ affairs). My reasoning for this is the fact that, for most people, the relationships we really care about / keep up are still mostly maintained via e-mail more than anything. Sure, we can write on our friends' FB accounts or carry on twitter conversations or us IM, but how many friends do you have that you don't e-mail?
E-mail was the killer app for the web to begin with and I don't think its on the way out like many people seem to. Its still the most prolific and convenient communication method for the web.