The Innovation of Sharing

Social Network, a disruptive new innovation, is starting to shift people’s online behavior, even to the point that the meaning of "online" has even shifted from web based to mobile based.

The new world wide web will be not only based in mobile, but it will be built with applications and tools that put both people and peoples associations at the center of all activities.

Instead of content, you will have posts, and those posts will be "points of sharing", and that interplay between points of contact, "nodes" will create social network "ties."

Facebook is without doubt not only the market leader as the most used Social networking site, but also is the leader in crafting a platform and set of tools to take advantage of the new opportunities on offer in this new ecosystem.

This has rather large implications for builders of internet tools (previously web sites) and for anyone engaging in commerce on the web. The way people desire to interact with commercial offerings is changing.

Computer History Museum - The Facebook Effect with Mark Zuckerberg

An area of the web that has, for me, consistently a very high level of quality of discourse about computer engineering is the Computer History Museum. Its YouTube channel may be found here, http://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerHistory/videos.

I enjoyed this interview with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, found here http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=_TuFkupUn7k&vq=small. I found it refreshing to hear Mark (I can call him Mark, because he is one of my facebook friends), talking about the Innovation of Sharing. He tried to discuss the potentials of "sharing" over a long time frame. How this would impact the software ecosystem, and how it would create new business opportunities. Of course everyone wanted to talk to him about privacy, which was much less interesting.