Jason has a thoughtful post about Facebook, and the whole discussion of Facebook as a platform deserves serious attention. Jeff’s and Marc Andreessen’s posts are well worth a read, and my feedreader is full of Facebook prophecies.
But in this post I don’t want to explore the platform implications of Facebook, significant though they maybe. I’ll just quote from a friend request I received this morning from an old university friend.
“this thing is much more fun than LinkedIn, dammit!”
There is a message in this for us enterprisey software types. Fun is a user requirement.
June 25, 2007 at 11:28 am
Yes, isn’t it?
June 25, 2007 at 1:47 pm
Its sure is - pity most CXOs don’t see life that way eh?
June 26, 2007 at 6:39 am
I was in Linkedin today looking up some contacts and found myself thinking “I wish this was like FB”.
June 28, 2007 at 1:25 pm
[...] Manchmal stolpere ich über eine Zeile, die das kurz und prägnant zusammenfasst, was ich seit langem vergeblich versuche verständlich auszudrücken. So ging es mir eben mit dem Satz: Fun is a user requirement. [...]
June 29, 2007 at 9:21 am
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