Facebook aims to be Social OS

Facebook's platform strategy will be announced today in San Francisco. In discussions with multiple sources involved with the launch, we've come to see the platform as a highly ambitious idea, approaching the idea of Facebook being an operating system with other web apps riding on top of it. Full Story »

Posted by Kaizar Campwala
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Topics: Internet
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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - May 25, 2007 - 5:45 PM PDT
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Marty Heyman
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by Marty Heyman - Oct. 1, 2008

In a market segment where there are technical facts to talk about and on a blog that is targeted at technical insiders, this comes off as pretty fluffy.MySpace and Bebo offer real features. Even if you can't breach confidentiality on specifics, what specifics is FaceBook going after? Falling back on cliches that were empty then and are more so now (the browser is the OS, for example) merely fills column inches.

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Kaizar Campwala
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