Comments for OC Web Marketing http://www.ocwebmarketing.com It's finished when it's finished, okay? Sun, 10 Jul 2011 02:17:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Comment on Google Plus and what it means for SEO by Sam Stamper http://www.ocwebmarketing.com/google-plus-what-it-means-for-seo/#comment-11 Sam Stamper Sun, 10 Jul 2011 02:17:34 +0000 http://www.ocwebmarketing.com/?p=21#comment-11 I like the wit. Good observations and excellent analysis. May all of your SEO dreams come true. I agree with most of what you said. So far I have only poked around in Google + and don't yet find it as engaging as Facebook. I see two distinct platforms engaging different users and the same users simultaneously - moving back and forth for different reasons. Crossover culture. Maybe the "more techie " type internet geek crowd rushes over to google + in the beginning as early adopters - while the older less sophisticated social crowd stays with Facebook? Google + definitely has some advantages seeing as they own the world of search. As it turns out Google will no longer be Google - everything will eventually become encapsulated within Google + - that means all the tools - and widgets and extensions we have grown to love from Google will now be adopted and carried forward as Google + That is why they did not choose a unique name for this platform. eventually there will only be goggle + as one massive death star controlling the entire Galaxy of the online world. Bringing up the failed Myspace for comparison. Sean Parker answers, “It’s never the end game. Facebook is now a platform upon which all kinds of applications are being built it’s definitely not it. It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.” Able to put being the possibility that it was victim of some artificial super intelligence aside, at minute 20:54 Fallon asks Parker, “Where did Myspace go wrong?” “The failure to execute product development,” Parker replies. “They weren’t successful in treating and evolving the product enough, it was basically this junk heap of bad design that persisted for many many years. There was a period of time where if they had just copied Facebook rapidly, they would have been Facebook. They were giant, the network effects, the scale effects were enormous.” Parker goes on to credit the ingenious move of targeting college kids for Facebook’s eventually market dominance, “Facebook entered the market through college and the reason we went in through college was that college kids were generally not Myspace users. College kids were generally not Friendster users …” Taking an almost Machiavellian tone, Parker also alludes to the latter social network’s displacement being deliberate, “It was this completely open market and it was a real longshot. Nobody actually believed, outside of us three or four people in Palo Alto, that you could enter the market through this niche market and then gradually through this carefully calculated war against all the social networks become the one social network to rule them all.” “Carefully calculated war against all social networks” is a very interesting word choice by Parker especially when coupled with the extremely self-aware statement that “if they had just copied Facebook rapidly, they would have been Facebook,” a line which seems like it came straight out of The Social Network. Well now is as good as a time as any to mark the end of that war; Myspace is selling for comparative peanuts while Facebook is valued at $70 billion. To the victor go the spoils, at least for the moment. I like the wit. Good observations and excellent analysis.
May all of your SEO dreams come true. I agree with most of what you said. So far I have only poked around in Google + and don’t yet find it as engaging as Facebook.
I see two distinct platforms engaging different users and the same users simultaneously – moving back and forth for different reasons. Crossover culture.
Maybe the “more techie ” type internet geek crowd rushes over to google + in the beginning as early adopters – while the older less sophisticated social crowd stays with Facebook? Google + definitely has some advantages seeing as they own the world of search.
As it turns out Google will no longer be Google – everything will eventually become encapsulated within Google + – that means all the tools – and widgets and extensions we have grown to love from Google will now be adopted and carried forward as Google + That is why they did not choose a unique name for this platform. eventually there will only be goggle + as one massive death star controlling the entire Galaxy of the online world.

Bringing up the failed Myspace for comparison. Sean Parker answers,

“It’s never the end game. Facebook is now a platform upon which all kinds of applications are being built it’s definitely not it. It would be incredibly presumptuous and self-serving of me to believe that Facebook was the end of history. The only way it could possibly be the end of history is if it becomes some sort of artificial super intelligence that takes over the world.”

Able to put being the possibility that it was victim of some artificial super intelligence aside, at minute 20:54 Fallon asks Parker, “Where did Myspace go wrong?”

“The failure to execute product development,” Parker replies. “They weren’t successful in treating and evolving the product enough, it was basically this junk heap of bad design that persisted for many many years. There was a period of time where if they had just copied Facebook rapidly, they would have been Facebook. They were giant, the network effects, the scale effects were enormous.”

Parker goes on to credit the ingenious move of targeting college kids for Facebook’s eventually market dominance, “Facebook entered the market through college and the reason we went in through college was that college kids were generally not Myspace users. College kids were generally not Friendster users …”

Taking an almost Machiavellian tone, Parker also alludes to the latter social network’s displacement being deliberate, “It was this completely open market and it was a real longshot. Nobody actually believed, outside of us three or four people in Palo Alto, that you could enter the market through this niche market and then gradually through this carefully calculated war against all the social networks become the one social network to rule them all.”

“Carefully calculated war against all social networks” is a very interesting word choice by Parker especially when coupled with the extremely self-aware statement that “if they had just copied Facebook rapidly, they would have been Facebook,” a line which seems like it came straight out of The Social Network.

Well now is as good as a time as any to mark the end of that war; Myspace is selling for comparative peanuts while Facebook is valued at $70 billion. To the victor go the spoils, at least for the moment.

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