http://intrigo.com/blog/start-up-tips/facebook-apps-dont-have-to-suck-but-twitter-is-still-better/ Helping startups with web applications Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:24:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://intrigo.com/blog/start-up-tips/facebook-apps-dont-have-to-suck-but-twitter-is-still-better/#comment-11 Lungfish Sun, 01 Jun 2008 21:47:42 +0000 http://intrigo.wordpress.com/?p=33#comment-11 Since Rupert Murdoch famously purchased MySpace, it's been getting flashier and there's been more advertising beyond the banner ads, which are ever present, and the main page ads, which were acceptable. They've also been adding customization options that look a little like facebook. But Craigslist, which has a permanent presence and ever-rising usership, is super simple, like a page made for a highschool assignment in 1998. I think the lesson in MySpace's falling numbers is that they shouldn't compete with FaceBook when they can do their own thing as well as they already do: I want an online address book with pictures and embedded email and simple bloging, I don't want to send people cupcakes, ecards, find out which movie I am, or "poke" someone. Since Rupert Murdoch famously purchased MySpace, it’s been getting flashier and there’s been more advertising beyond the banner ads, which are ever present, and the main page ads, which were acceptable. They’ve also been adding customization options that look a little like facebook. But Craigslist, which has a permanent presence and ever-rising usership, is super simple, like a page made for a highschool assignment in 1998. I think the lesson in MySpace’s falling numbers is that they shouldn’t compete with FaceBook when they can do their own thing as well as they already do: I want an online address book with pictures and embedded email and simple bloging, I don’t want to send people cupcakes, ecards, find out which movie I am, or “poke” someone.

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