Comments on: Amateur hour at Facebook. What gives?

Does Facebook have any idea how badly it's getting creamed here? When billion-dollar enterprises like Google or Microsoft have no trouble painting themselves being on the side of the angels, you know you're in trouble.

[moofer]

Facebook doesn't really have their finger on the pulse. Users can't even upload videos longer than 2 minutes. Who in the heck makes a video shorter than 2 min?

[ichi13]

i do where's my account!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQbFBxjn1kI

[cuwickliffe]

Um, yeah that's false. I send videos in excess of 2 minutes all the time. They do have a filesize limitation, but I upload MP4 files that are great quality and relatively small.

[giyad]

"Facebook is coming off badly since it began blocking Google's Friend Connect last week"? Im sure over 90% of its users don't even know what Friend Connect is...

[davemc500hats]

sorry, all the "action" in the blogosphere & ********* is just so much hot air.
we can talk all we want, but the mainstream consumer doesn't give a rat's ass.

why is Facebook "silent"? because talk doesn't friggin matter one bit.

when they ship a feature, then let's see if people start using it... that's really all that matters.

fortunately they understand that, which is why Dave Morin is in Hawaii relaxing this weekend.

[miikomentz]

@davemc500hats Excellent point! The average consumer doesn't even know that all this banter and hot air is running amok. Dave's right, when new features are released and consumers adopt or reject them that's what matters at the end of the day.

[charlie cooper]

maybe you're right about that and i'm not going to claim to be clairvoyant. but these things have a way of building on themselves. remember "beacon?"

[BlueLaser]

Perhaps that is the point. Beacon was a Facebook feature that failed, largely because FB users -were- aware of it and didn't like it. Friend Connect, on the other hand, is a big business partnership largely out of sight, out of mind for most users. "Is it changing the way I can use Facebook?" they ask. "No? Then who cares."

[spm82]

The closed nature of Facebook's platform and their unwillingness to work with other major players like Google is indicative of a bigger problem: Facebook's underlying business strategy and their uncanny resemblance to Microsoft of 10 years ago. I can't put it as well as Umair Haque:
http://discussionleader.hbsp.com/haque/2008/05/http20bitscom20080506thestateo.html