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Re: SWOT: Five Ways Google+ Can Become Mainstream

amit siwal — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:35:39 -0000

I completely agree about an application platform if G+ has to go mainstream..... One of the reason why FB grew outside US especially in Asia (indonesia) was because of the applications platform. The growth was not lead by social connections but by massive consumption of games like texas hold em poker and others .... that lead the leaderboards .... Indonesia is a great case study in how friendster a dominant social network completely lost out to FB when i don't think facebook even tried to enter the market .... I wrote about friendster's fall in asia here ....

http://amitsiwal.com/2011/0...

although I disagree that "comments management features" will enable G+ to go mainstream. It's a solution to excessive noise that G+ has from aggresive users but in a mainstream world, for example on facebook people tend to have 10-30 comments per post at max ....

Re: SWOT: Five Ways Google+ Can Become Mainstream

amit siwal — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 13:28:20 -0000

I agree on applications platform - one of the reason why facebook grew so rapidly outside US was not because of social connections but because of the appeal of games on facebook - especially in countries like indonesia (where friendster lost out - read my post about it http://amitsiwal.com/2011/0...

Re: You’ve Got FMail

amit siwal — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 19:15:26 -0000

FB has a clear focus ... get everyone on FB - 500 mill is not enough

Growth can come from two sources

everyone who's OK with the idea of shouting "I am having a great day" (n then waits to count likes) is already on FB - I am one of them

there's another world of internet users who will simply not give into this FB network effect ....

they are happy with Yahoo/hotmail/AOL email and want to read their news on BBC .... thts internet for them ... ( o they network too but on old school comm. websites, email groups )

and then there's growth possible from new internet users [Asia leading it] - how do they start their internet journey - they get an EMAIL account

thats the IDEA [in my humble opinion]

so they dont need to build a GMAIL killer ...
all they need is
give everyone a FB email ID

FB is great at knowing things that are too big for them - they knew they cant make games - let Zynga play in the garden - they cant just FORK a GMAIL killer out of their ass - that takes lot of resources (if u want to do kill a product that has been raised over a few years)

so Lets not call FB mail a GMAIL killer ..... thats not the idea at all ...

Why does TC articles suck?

Well - Techcrunch is a production machine that has to churn out articles and quickly on stuff that will trend up
and when you go for quantity quality drops

Why do ppl come to TC
Temporary Network effect - its where everybody whos doing something in WEB business hangs out n leaves a comment after reading a poor quality article ...

Re: Yeah Ok, So Facebook Punk'd Us

amit siwal — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:25:59 -0000

time to pay Ashton and get mark punked ????......... thgh Ashton shld learn a bit about pranks frm Fbook ....

Re: Facebook To Let Others Play In Its Stream

amit siwal — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:46:21 -0000

i thght fbook was desperately seeking money to manage costs of running their server yards .....going twitter way will only multiply the load on their servers n hence the cost .....

Re: Facebook Hockey Sticks, MySpace Languishes

amit siwal — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 00:49:01 -0000

Imagine how quickly you'd be a sitting duck if you were to use a Fbook tweetdeck app with API restriction similar to Twitter [Twitter has a 100 Req./hr limit ]

Re: Social search product Aardvark: Think, Yahoo Answers meets Twitter — but better

amit siwal — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 06:38:09 -0000

setting up this routing algorithm isnt rocketscience and if aardvark is to ride on IM's n email ..... dependency might kill them

This social search flow can be executed much more easily by incumbents ....Fbook should wakeup n focus on social search than classifieds ....

Fbook could easily use its newsfeed engine to push questions through a contextual engine that scraps profiles of users since fbook already has behavioural data about users n this also solves spamming problem as users behave themselves on fbook..

so Fbook can kill

Re: Official+Facebook+Version+of+Scrabble+Spells+Doubt+For%26nbsp%3BScrabulous

amit siwal — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 07:11:55 -0000

One thing i still dont understand is why cant ppl innovate with new word game concepts .....

Scrabulous was a good fun card board game and gels well on a social platform

But The concept is old and boring now ...

Check this new word game, totally new concept and totally Rocks ...its called Navajo

Careful though its very addictive

http://www.facebook.com/add...

Re: Invitation to join Google App Engine

amit siwal — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 02:06:39 -0000

hey, trying badly to get a google app engine invite.

You know anyone who might want to do away with the app invite? I know dats being highly optimistic......