The thing is who is going to implement it, and if it had been implemented why isn’t there one solution that embraces all?
Facebook has a future. Not because they’re backed by Governments, NGOs and BIG money. They also have friendfeed which when fully deployed can take over Twitter down.They literally have the WORLD in the palm of their hands. They have access to everyone’s INFORMATION. Meaning they have what the BUSH Obama Administration would have exchanged their souls for. Information Technology is not just about developing highly secured platforms, it is also about securing information which is often overlooked by the majority of platform developers.
Zuckerberg, and his team, at twenty-five is the envy of every developer in the world. And every geek is desirous to sleep with him, least alone the girls out there.
The other problem is there’s equally another plus one exciting platform that allows Facebook to grow, and both are fighting with each other – If Yahoo has not been bought over by thirty-six year old Sergey Brin, one wonders. Do Filo-Yang and their honchos want it all? Both social platforms literally died because they didn’t foresee the popularity it will harness, and gained within the blink of a heartbeat. Its in this metaphor how two great nations will end up. Will Zuckerberg eventually sell out, and will Brin, just form his own enlightening elitist movement all together? As much as the World is watching, the fate of the ONE platform where everyone from your great grand-uncle to their great grand genome will be on, or is already procreating another love child somewhere can only be determined by YOU.
You make history happen. You contribute to History or rather, YOU-story. Which one will your’s be ?
If Google concentrated on its infrastructure making it the one platform where the world congregates he would have at least made it at par with Zuckerberg. If is a big question, and that accounts for nothing less than a few billion Euro!! If Yahoo had made 360 a success just after launching its one platform touching One Million visitors they would have at least grasped the market. If Yahoo had improved on its webmail solution, instead of having bought over Zimbra making it the first unified communications platform, embracing both IBM’s Symphony and Microsoft’s Outlook, it would have at least garnered the majority of the world populace.
Maybe it’s time to re-think! Think ONE, think SAAS, think Beyond!
In the battle of the One Platform where everyone who is anyone wants to be on, whom do you think will eventually win? Where do you see Yahoo now? Google is still young. Will google allow Orkut to die, or was Orkut a test-bed altogether? Will Facebook eventually learn from all these and develop 24/24 to make it the number one platform? And will it still come out with more innovative solutions for everyone on planet Earth who is connected to everyone else, like a pearl on a silk string?
If they had been siblings parted at birth, you’d think they were at loggerheads now wouldn’t you? Sibling rivalry. Let’s tinker on who has bought over eBay, YouTube, PayPal for a moment. And then … think what Yahoo has bought over for the past year. Don’t forget however, Microsoft, and Apple in the equation.
Your call and arguments appreciated herein.
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