May 25, 2007 6:12 AM
Graduation Day for Facebook
The web’s second best social networking site next to mySpace is finally graduating from being a college social networking site to a bigger, better and more matured web service. Via a much celebrated press conference, Facebook’s 23 year old Mark Zuckerberg is unveiling Facebook’s direction and what it aims to become.
It’s all over the web. Every news agency has covered the event. Almost all well known blogs have dedicated a post, some even several posts for Facebook’s transition into a more matured service. Here’s what other bloggers have to say about this big news about Facebook:
- Richard McManus of Read/Write Web says that Facebook has finally grown up and it does so in a bravely fashion.
- Tony Hung of Deep Jive Interests calls Facebook the Microsoft of Social Media (though he meant it in a nice way)
- Liz Gannes of GigaOm thinks Facebook is aiming to be a social OS
- And of course the ever so reliable source of rumors, fresh news and what-have-you's Techcrunch's Michael Arrington declares Facebook as the anti-mySpace.
So, what's the big fuzz on this new announcement from Facebook all about, and why is Facebook getting all the buzz? The social media netizens grew tired of mySpace and social media users wants something new and fresh.
On the web application developers point of view, they grew tired of mySpace's exclusivity and Facebook is about to give them something which mySpace have denied them before - open source, platform where they (developers) can work with and into. And Facebook would even allow them to monetize what ever applications they can develop for Facebook. It's one of the three elements which Zuckerberg mentioned during the press event - new opportunity, along with the two other elements, deep integration and mass distribution.
Now, with all these hype about this Facebook development, a question still remains to be answered. Is Zuckerberg really gearing up his social networking site to dislodge mySpace from its no.1 position? Or is the company who denied a recently buyout proposal from Yahoo, is just preparing for future buyout proposals? That we have yet to find out.
In the meantime, check out what all this fuzz about in a couple of hours from now, as Facebook transforms from a social network into a social platform.
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