Zitat des Tages von Max Levchin:
I actually think Facebook made it their business to be close with all of the app developers. They couldn't have done more.
If I see what you're up to on Facebook but I don't see your updates on Flickr, I'll still care about Facebook.
You can't get married to any one particular plan. That is the biggest lesson I learned at PayPal.
If the game designer produces more content than he can consume per month, some fraction of the people will say more quests, more tests, more challenges, more whatever, and they will be compelled by it.
We're becoming slaves to our social networks - and that's not a bad thing. You like your favorite networks, so do you friends, and pretty soon you have market winners.
Think of Slide as a giant media network for people to transmit information. The content that's in there now has been provided by users - it's whatever they want it to be.
Technology has come a long way since PayPal.
Facebook and Myspace are the U.S. audience, which is tried and true when it comes to being susceptible to ads.
If we compare the two, Facebook is currently a superior place to market a product like Slide. Twitter is more like a general distribution agent. It's like broadcast radio.
Right now, nearly all the apps on Facebook take a week to build. No more.
I'm trying to build something where people will go every day.
I never wear suits.
Facebook is so ubiquitous now that it's like another manifestation of the web itself.
Media is very different from financial services. People are very fickle and very vocal. They believe that things should be one way and not the other. It's still very rewarding to build products for huge audiences. It feels like you're making an impact.
If you're building a social product, you're still living in the last century if your product doesn't work on Facebook.
