Are you a business or are you a widget?
By Tom Foremski - July 14, 2007
Do you have a business or are you a widget?: It is a variation on Larry Ellison's question about enterprise software companies: do they provide features or solutions?
It works in this era too. I come across too many startups that are great widgets but poor businesses.
Take a look at Facebook this company has managed to roll up much of Web 2.0, Twitter, flickr, LinkedIn, etc. All into one page.
Saturday afternoon I spent 3 hours looking at YouTube through the my FaceBook portal. YouTube is a widget on FaceBook. A $1.6bn widget.
By Tom Foremski - July 14, 2007 | Permalink | Comment
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Comments (1)
What dork-speak "widget or business." These kinds of words reflect insular thinking.
What deep insight changing the words "portal" to "business" and "content" to "widget".
Sites like Facebook and MySpace attract persons too inept to set up an IRC client and use it for chat and file swaps.
What does Facebook give that iGoogle does not?
Posted: July 16, 2007 6:59 PM