Re:Your issues with...
by run4yourlives on Thursday August 09, 2007 @01:16PM
(#40950)
My $.02:
1. Facebook is next to meaningless to me... it's cute, a cool way to share photos and waste time, but the connections have no real value, they either existed before or will remain confined to the medium. I'd imagine this is not true for those in college, but accurate for an older user such as myself.
2. There is already a perfectly acceptable and available medium for tv - TV! The market of people who have access to the internet but not TV is rather small - again, an idea that might play better with a college crowd who exist in a world exactly as I described.
3. The key to the holy grail of news sites in my mind is the dunbar number (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number), as Davidw points out in his comment. I think if you can find a way to create a site that can harness the strength of this principle, you'll win here.
1. Facebook is next to meaningless to me... it's cute, a cool way to share photos and waste time, but the connections have no real value, they either existed before or will remain confined to the medium. I'd imagine this is not true for those in college, but accurate for an older user such as myself.
2. There is already a perfectly acceptable and available medium for tv - TV! The market of people who have access to the internet but not TV is rather small - again, an idea that might play better with a college crowd who exist in a world exactly as I described.
3. The key to the holy grail of news sites in my mind is the dunbar number (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar's_number), as Davidw points out in his comment. I think if you can find a way to create a site that can harness the strength of this principle, you'll win here.