Much has, and should be, written about FaceBook. To me, FB is triggering a new stage in the “elevation of distribution”. If you’ve followed FB at all, you’ve seen how most credit their move to opening their platform as the stroke of genius.
With it’s platform strategy, FB has created a virtual mosh-pit of developer activity…
“Dave Morin, Facebook’s director of platform, told the Developer Meetup audience via videoconference that more than 40,000 developers have requested to be part of the project, around 1,500 applications have been produced so far, and some of the most popular went from zero to 850,000 users in three days.” CNet June 15th News.com article
I’d observe that the legions of “personal start-ups” (web 2.0 mash-up teams) have become anxious as their web 2.0 start-ups evaporate amongst the noise, not gaining any meaningful consumer traction. It feels like this creative geek clique has been waiting for the next thing to drive their TechCrunch fantasies forward. Along saunters FaceBook, and the hills are alive again! [UPDATED] (more…)
