Rather than bang its head against the wall trying to create a competitor to Facebook, Google appears to have come to the realization that all of its applications and assets have social aspects that can be extruded,” said Al Hilwa, analyst for IDC. “It’s more of a mall than a department store approach.
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Google’s social network building blocks for Facebook fight - Sep. 20, 2010 (via datainsightsideas) Rafer sez: The anchor is gmail via goog apps for domain - goog should just focus on building enterprise social nets even acquire yammer. Automating communication in the b2b space behind the firewall is a huge oppty. Facebook has won the b2c and c2c social app platform game worry about the private off the grid Aja behind firewall problem. Microsoft should do the same using exchange as similar anchor. |
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Rafer sez: A perfect statement of why it won’t work. Malls without anchor tenants are empty.
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