Facebook predicted to be the basis of Web 3.0

Calvin Ayre
Calvin Ayre
August 11, 2010
7 Comments

Facebook-Basis-Web-3I love Facebook… and I hate Twitter. I can’t say if my experience mirrors the typical user’s, but my guess is that all Twitterers use Facebook, whereas only a miniscule fraction of Facebookers have any interest what so fucking ever in Twitter. Seriously, what busy (i.e. gainfully employed) adult has time to tweet, and even if they do, honestly, beyond a few noteworthy comedians and those Iranian opposition figures, who fucking cares what anyone else is tweeting? So, you’re standing in line at the supermarket, waiting to pay for your bag of Doritos, and you think the guy in front of you forgot to put on deodorant before he left the house? You don’t say… WHO GIVES A SHIT?

If there truly is an 800 pound gorilla in the room that could kill the existing online gambling companies if/when the US legalizes the activity, it’s Facebook, what with its 500M (and growing) users, most of whom are already involved in some form of online game play, be it Texas Hold ‘Em or Farmville. And if this FaceBookie does arise, the freakazoid Frankenstein’s monster created by the Bwin/PartyGaming merger – for which the main motivation was to take a run at the US market — will appear all the more ill-advised. Trust me, I was raised on a farm, and I never once saw a cow take a shower, trim its tail and put on a tuxedo right before it strolled into the abattoir. Read more.

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  • Jonathan Ryan

    #hashtags can be used to find local breaking news stories of interest and value for many companies/industries. When integrating with the Twitter API you can get indexed faster in Google as they have access to the firehose. You are free to openly message any company or person in the world on twitter. Many interesting and newsworthy comments get sent via DM. It's also a great way to openly engage in customer service. My guess is you don't understand the technology so you have negative things to say about it.

  • Jonathan Ryan

    #hashtags can be used to find local breaking news stories of interest and value for many companies/industries. When integrating with the Twitter API you can get indexed faster in Google as they have access to the firehose. You are free to openly message any company or person in the world on twitter. Many interesting and newsworthy comments get sent via DM. It's also a great way to openly engage in customer service. My guess is you don't understand the technology so you have negative things to say about it.

  • Jonathan Ryan

    #hashtags can be used to find local breaking news stories of interest and value for many companies/industries. When integrating with the Twitter API you can get indexed faster in Google as they have access to the firehose. You are free to openly message any company or person in the world on twitter. Many interesting and newsworthy comments get sent via DM. It's also a great way to openly engage in customer service. My guess is you don't understand the technology so you have negative things to say about it.

  • Sam Hammerstein

    You do realize that you just insulted 1800 people who follow you on Twitter and read the RSS Feed that populates your profile?

  • Sam Hammerstein

    You do realize that you just insulted 1800 people who follow you on Twitter and read the RSS Feed that populates your profile?

  • Sam Hammerstein

    You do realize that you just insulted 1800 people who follow you on Twitter and read the RSS Feed that populates your profile?

  • http://CalvinAyre.com Calvin Ayre

    I should add that facebook will adopt any items of twitter that are proven to be popular….I just can not see a role for twitter in the coming facebook universe….and unfortunately, the same is likely to apply to stand alone gaming companies that can not innovate…innovation, the enemy of size for all you guys out there thinking of merging.