If there’s one type of TV that’s a guilty pleasure it’s the Robin Hood “Long Con” - That’s when a posse of criminals’ criminal steal (back) from guilty remorseless bloodsucking scum. Obviously u had the Soderbergh Oceans 11-12-13 franchise - But I’m particularly partial to TNT’s #Leverage + BBC’s #Hustle. But this post aint about “The Long Con” TV - it’s about a parallel analogy that Xooglers can be very good at The Long Con when applied to building product and community then taking the financial benefit.
I’m talking 12 largely Xoogle Friendfeeders taking $50m in stock and cash from a pre-IPO Facebook, after already being minted millionaires for inventing + Doing No Evil at Google. You can check my friendfeed for my acquisition google reader shares and delicious links. Or see what my friends on Friendfeed are saying about the M+A. Or go even broader for the whole of Scoble’s broken heart friendfeed on the deal. This was only ever going to end in tears, but what is annoying is who is going to fill my product gaps as Twitter begat Friendfeed… but Friendfeed has not yet begat anything I can use as a substitute.. Even if Marshall hopes for a Perfect Storm.
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I’m heading off to Melbourne via the gym so I can only leave bulletpoints on the product gaps I need to fill when Facebook gets assimilated beyond Web 2.0 recognition by the Facebook Lite Zuckerborg.
- Real Time Status Updates from Techy Types with low spam.. with no 140-160 character max and not limited to text - including Video, Images, etc - Luckily Friendfeed suck in feeds from all the major players and presented them in realtime.
- Personal Micropublishing tools where I could push webpages via a bookmarklet and include an image and longer than Delicious 1000 character maximum snippet and importantly - publish up to 3 images per page. With publishing to twitter a tickbox. Basically when I dont want to overload Twitter with sneakers and random good looking luxury items + I need to store images for later blog posts, which Delicious doesnt do, I used friendfeed.
- Private Room where u can + your special some1 can share snippets of the web in realtime.. so much easier than Twitter DM - cheaper than Text and with rich media.
That’s just a start.. but like I said this was a Long Con… and Long Cons are never that Long.. maybe 1-2 years max.. now the founders can add to that Google kaching with many millions more of benjamins cashola and some pre-IPO Facebook stock - which along with Linkedin and Twitter - may be only 1 of 3 of the major currencies.. actually worth something.. Not a bad hedge at all. Esp given Google may now get Twitter - so the Xoogling Friendfacebookers have exposure to both sides of the social networking puzzle.
But what is next.. yes open source / distributed social networking / android mobile anarchy apps / chromed apps etc - I just want to know what the new Friendster/Facebook/Twitter/Friendfeed is… maybe a start would be determining what product(s) I can use to fill the Friendfeed being turned off gap..
At Least Polyvore.com the Friendfeed of Fashion is Still Independent !
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