> Facebook invented the one-column social news feed.
Did it? Seems a lot like a twitter feed one could build for oneself.
And I disagree that facebook won for being faster or more innovative. Most people I know switched because it was less obnoxious with glittery animations and autoplay audio. Also, the crowd, at least initially, was more attractive to young adults since it was exclusive to people with a university email address.
Arguably it took the lead, at least initially, by doing less.
To read your messages in MySpace required you load a full page of Ads so you could then press "Next" and then see your Messages.
Facebook in its first years did everything in its power to lower the number of page loads necessary to navigate the entire interface. So you're right, it was less obnoxious by being faster.
And I don't know if you realize how big a deal tagged photos and a nice UI for uploading and managing them was. MySpace had nothing like that.
Did it? Seems a lot like a twitter feed one could build for oneself.
And I disagree that facebook won for being faster or more innovative. Most people I know switched because it was less obnoxious with glittery animations and autoplay audio. Also, the crowd, at least initially, was more attractive to young adults since it was exclusive to people with a university email address.
Arguably it took the lead, at least initially, by doing less.