It’s the Feed, Stupid!
July 24, 2008One thing that stuck with me from F8 yesterday is Dave Morin’s somewhat failed joke — during his presentation, he showed an empty forest and ask the audience, ‘if I did something and none of my friend knows about it, did I really do it’? The joke didn’t gather the big laughs Dave expected (not sure why, I personally thought it’s very funny), but something else brought me back to that joke today as I try to digest the implications of the “friendfeedization” of facebook.
It’s the Feed, Stupid!
Facebook want applications to compete for this prime real estate, the same way that websites vie for web users’ attention by striving for the top ranking in google. If FB gets what it wants, the wall will be the new battleground for the attention and eyeballs of online consumers.
FWO is the new SEO. Facebook Wall Optimization anyone?
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