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aminggs"The classic example of an application being vanquished by a platform was the Wang word processor versus Microsoft DOS-based personal computers." Compare with Joel Spolsky's call for an Internet OS (CICS vs PC in his example).
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Marcelo NegriniMarc Andreessen, technology entrepreneur, Internet, Mosaic, Netscape, Opsware, Ning
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Thierry MarcouAn overview and analysis of the Facebook Plaform and what we have learned about it in the three weeks since it launched.To start, my personal opinion is that the new Facebook Platform is a dramatic leap forward for the Internet industry.
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Michel BauwensIn this post, I provide an overview and analysis of the Facebook Plaform and what we have learned about it in the three weeks since it launched.
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Jill ONeillexcellent analysis of how this is working
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Seb PaquetMetaphorically, Facebook is providing the ease and user attraction of MySpace-style embedding, coupled with the kind of integration you see with Firefox extensions, plus the added rocket fuel of automated viral distribution to a huge number of potential u
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David CorkingPrivacy, viral spread, lock-in, creativity - all kinds of interesting issues raised by Marc and the commenters.
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unless you already have, or are prepared to quickly procure, a 100-500+ server infrastructure and everything associated with it -- networking gear, storage gear, ISP interconnetions, monitoring systems, firewalls, load balancers, provisioning systems, etc. -- and a killer operations team, launching a successful Facebook application may well be a self-defeating proposition....just like if you built a web app that succeeded outside Facebook, of course.
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Angela KilleIn this post, I provide an overview and analysis of the Facebook Plaform and what we have learned about it in the three weeks since it launched. by Marc Andreessen
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Merrell SheehanMarc Andreessen. Strategically, he outlines why Facebook is a real leap ahead.
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Christiane SHMarc Andreessen über sein Facebook-Erlebnis
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richard sambrookMarc Andreessen on why facebook has suddenly taken off. Wise observations...
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Mindy McAdamsMarc Andreessen's astute analysis of the changes in facebook - API,, apps, etc.
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a successful application on Facebook can grow to a million users or more within a couple of weeks of creation.
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Adam Crowe"The third is that you cannot create your own world -- your own social network -- using the Facebook platform. You cannot build another Facebook with it."
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However, what Facebook is now doing is a lot more sophisticated than simply MySpace-style embedding: Facebook is providing a full suite of APIs -- including a network protocol, a database query language, and a text markup language -- that allow third party applications to integrate tightly with the Facebook user experience and database of user and activity information. And then, on top of that, Facebook is providing a highly viral distribution engine for applications that plug into its platform. As a user, you get notified when your friends start using an application; you can then start using that same application with one click. At which point, all of your friends become aware that you have started using that application, and the cycle continues. The result is that a successful application on Facebook can grow to a million users or more within a couple of weeks of creation.
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Isaac RuizAnalyzing the Facebook Platform,
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James CorbettCongratulations to the Facebook team for an amazing leap forward in what the Internet can do for real users and for opening up whole new vistas of opportunities for third-party developers. This is an amazing achievement one of the most significant.
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Neil HA pretty starry-eyed but generally accurate view of Facebook Platform
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In this post, I provide an overview and analysis of the Facebook Plaform and what we have learned about it in the three weeks since it launched.
To start, my personal opinion is that the new Facebook Platform is a dramatic leap forward for the Internet industry.
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And then, on top of that, Facebook is providing a highly viral distribution engine for applications that plug into its platform. As a user, you get notified when your friends start using an application; you can then start using that same application with one click. At which point, all of your friends become aware that you have started using that application, and the cycle continues. The result is that a successful application on Facebook can grow to a million users or more within a couple of weeks of creation.
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First, perhaps the most architecturally interesting aspect of the Facebook platform is the fact that everything routes through Facebook's servers.
This is known as a "proxy" model -- you interact with a third-party Facebook application by interacting with Facebook's servers which turn interact with the application's servers.
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Second, Facebook has really thought through the API suite it provides to developers.
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Third, there are three very powerful potential aspects of being a platform in the web era that Facebook does not embrace.
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Fourth, and perhaps most significantly, when your application takes off on Facebook, you are very happy because you have lots of users, and you are very sad because your servers blow up.
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Unless you're already operating your own systems at Facebook levels of scale, your servers will promptly explode from all the traffic and you will shortly be sending out an email like this.
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Joe CrawfordInteresting analysis from Marc Andreesen. And I thought that dude was washed up!
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Joseph Thornleyan overview and analysis of the Facebook Plaform and what we have learned about it in the three weeks since it launched.
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