What is the secret of success for facebook?
The success lies in the activity panel of facebook.
What is the activity panel?
It helps a user to keep updated on the what their friends or network does. for eg. when a user adds an application or an event is initiated in a network, these activities can be found right at the dashboard for an user as soon as he login’s to the system
Who all understood this secret?
- NING, ZIKI both fall in to the same category of facebook.
- Orkut a people finder
- WordPress has a similar system, but their original concept
here are the examples
FaceBook screen
Ning
Orkut
Orkut gives you an option to suppress these activities, but not selective activity
WordPress
WordPress, blogsurfer gives you an option to read latest post from the list of choice of friends
What is the lesson?
If you are on web2.0, sharing “less private” information by defaults matter.
Defaults matter a lot in web 2.0
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