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Facebook’s Path To Ubiquity And Thoughts For Your Next Startup

Source: The Future Buzz

Mar 23, 2009

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Facebook wants to become the one-stop-shop for social networking. They didn’t upset 94% of their users without good reason. I was hoping someone would map out their potential path, and Robert Scoble did just that:

The 7 phases Facebook is going through:

Phase 1. Harvard only.

Phase 2. Harvard+Colleges only.

Phase 3. Harvard+Colleges+Geeks only.

Phase 4. All those above+All People (in the social graph).

Phase 5. All those above+People and businesses in the social graph. (Robert notes Facebook is moving into this phase now)

Phase 6. All those above+People, businesses, and well-known objects in the social graph.

Phase 7. All people, businesses, objects in the social graph.

(Interesting they are moving into phase 5 when there is still much wrong with the site as is, but perhaps this explains why they aren’t bothering to fix the little things - they’re focused on big picture.)

While Facebook tries to be all things to all people and Twitter enjoys the media spotlight, it’s worth highlighting a strategy many have been using successfully for years: let the big players

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Comments (2)

Mitchellmckenna,

Mar 23, 2009

Title confused me, Was wondering why facebook would be interested in Mozilla's Ubiquity, lol