Comments on: F8 - it’s big http://www.fbbook.com/fblog/2007/05/25/f8-its-big/ the blog about the book Wed, 08 Sep 2010 22:22:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.3 by: nicholas http://www.fbbook.com/fblog/2007/05/25/f8-its-big/#comment-22342 Tue, 05 Jun 2007 23:23:45 +0000 http://www.fbbook.com/fblog/2007/05/25/f8-its-big/#comment-22342 I just spent a week in Silicon Valley, where the nights are surprisingly cool, even in May, and the highways are wide. And where nobody cares about user-generated content anymore. Even businesses built around the concept -- think Google and Facebook -- have moved on. Now, the goal at Facebook, Google and other former start-ups once built on user-generated content is to take a step even further back. The user-generated content platform isn't hands-off enough. They're building developer platforms instead. read more: http://www.internetnews.com/reporters_notebook/article.phpr/3681651 I just spent a week in Silicon Valley, where the nights are surprisingly cool, even in May, and the highways are wide. And where nobody cares about user-generated content anymore.

Even businesses built around the concept — think Google and Facebook — have moved on.

Now, the goal at Facebook, Google and other former start-ups once built on user-generated content is to take a step even further back. The user-generated content platform isn’t hands-off enough. They’re building developer platforms instead.

read more:
http://www.internetnews.com/reporters_notebook/article.phpr/3681651

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