Ballmer Calls Facebook A Fad?

Re:Ballmer Calls Facebook A Fad? by blader on Tuesday October 02, 2007 @08:37PM (#62363)

I remember having this conversation at Startup School last year with some very smart hackers over dinner. The overwhelming majority felt that Facebook was exactly that, a fad like MySpace or Friend or whatever, that it won't be around in 5 years, that they don't have any real technology, etc. I was the only person who disagreed.

I argued that they have an amazing team, that they control the most accurate and real social graph on the planet, they are cooking up something big with it, and they will without a doubt not only be around, but be much bigger in 5 years.

6 months, 1 platform, 5000 apps, and 50 million users later, I'm feeling pretty comfortable about my stance, I don't know about the other guys.

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Re:Ballmer Calls Facebook A Fad? by andreyf on Wednesday October 03, 2007 @02:34AM (#62498)

they control the most accurate and real social graph on the planet

Hm, if Google analyzes the content of e-mail as much as people say they do, they can probably get a much more accurate social graph.

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Re:Ballmer Calls Facebook A Fad? by hello_moto on Wednesday October 03, 2007 @12:47AM (#62473)

All of these social network tools/sites will have their momentum. But thus far, none has been able to maintain it for more than 5 years. If Facebook could be bigger in its 6th and 7th year, then Steve Ballmer will eat his words. Until then, the fact that social networking site is a fad stands still.

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Re:Ballmer Calls Facebook A Fad? by Tichy on Wednesday October 03, 2007 @04:23AM (#62515)

How do they control the social graph?

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