On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 6:48 AM, djs <djsteinhafel at gmail.com> wrote: > > As far as I can tell, Facebook doesn't provide a service that can't > be recreated relatively easily by someone with web programming skills. > Nope. But you need serious horsepower under the hood to provision that service to so many users. Facebook is integrating A LOT of different services into their initial "find friends and shout at each other" service. Turns out that's what people really wanted. > Public and private messaging, image uploads, groups, event rsvp... > most of the other "features" (face recognition, facebook apps/games) > look like bloat to me and may even be considered detrimental to > usability and user/site efficiency/performance. > Their last major interface change jumped the shark for me. I don't find interacting with the site "pleasant" anymore. -Rob -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20111026/aecfa6da/attachment.html>