Loic Le Meur did a little test with me a couple of weeks ago. He listed his Le Web conference on both Facebook and Upcoming.org. Here's the Facebook listing. Here's the Upcoming.org one....The Facebook one...has 467 people who've accepted it. The Upcoming.org one IS available to Google and the Web. It has 101 people on it.
This is a fight for the Web. We all just crawled inside a box that locks Google out.
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Scoble, formerly at Microsoft, now at PodTech.net, offers here an informal experiment which shows why Facebook and Google are at odds.
I tried the Google search he recommended, and it's true, the Facebook listing does not show up. So that part of the article is accurate. And since the author worked at Microsoft, I trust his interpretation of the company's strategy. However, as he also notes, their Web strategy has been a disaster so far. What he doesn't see is why. Microsoft has a history of locking up markets. Because their software is traditionally not as good as their competitors, it's been the only way they have been able to succeed--by dominating markets and driving competition out of business. They did it with Netscape, and with other smaller rivals. If they have to break the law to do it, they will because--even with the big fines the EU handed them--the ... More »
Interesting analysis of the possible future of the web. The article points out the continual battle to keep the web competitive and free market and attempts by corporations like Microsoft to gain a non-competitive monopoly.
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