Re: Facebook turns down $750M acquisition offer
 

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Re: Facebook turns down $750M acquisition offer
 

wacki,

sixdegrees.com was around long before any of this stuff. Friendster had millions of users before MySpace/Facebook/etc existed. Friendster is stumbling along while MySpace sold for $580M and continues to grow and Facebook is looking at billion-dollarish offers. It's not about innovation, it's about execution and timing.

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wacki,

sixdegrees.com was around long before any of this stuff. Friendster had millions of users before MySpace/Facebook/etc existed. Friendster is stumbling along while MySpace sold for $580M and continues to grow and Facebook is looking at billion-dollarish offers. It's not about innovation, it's about execution and timing.

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El D,

Why do you think that is? What was special about the execution and timing of facebook and myspace as opposed to the others?

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I don't understand why facebook was such a hit. Websites like classmates.com have been around for a very long time. So what made this such a huge innovation? Is is simply because it's more "myspace" like? I dunno i haven't used any of those sites.

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classmates is a pay site

to my knowledge, facebook is FREE

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And for what it's worth, facebook is not very similar to MySpace

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It's not about innovation, it's about execution and timing.

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A free service on the internet is the last place I would of expected "timing" to be so critical. I am more interested now than ever in figuring out why this was such a huge hit when so many others failed.

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Its very simple, its free, it tells you when peoples birthday's are. What else can you ask for?

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wacki,

There have been countless articles written answering exactly the question you ask. Here's one decent writeup.

For lots of coverage and analysis of the space, see here.

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It's not about innovation, it's about execution and timing.

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A free service on the internet is the last place I would of expected "timing" to be so critical. I am more interested now than ever in figuring out why this was such a huge hit when so many others failed.

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I think myspace is executed much better. The way the profiles are displayed and executed is much more appealing to a lot of people, plus it has bands and better promotions, and initially had better photo hosting, comments, etc. Friendster is starting to catch up on some of those but the interface is still not as good.

Facebook is a hit for different reasons, specific to meeting college kids at your own school, and is set up well for that.

NT

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