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Why hasn't Facebook tried to do something different by venturing into different markets or building new products?

  • The industry has always compared Facebook and Google on different levels. While its probably not the best comparison to make because of the difference in scale, but Google in the past was a company like Facebook. However, they decided to try and explore new vistas by doing something different than their core product, search. They tried several products and had their share of success and failures, but the failures never tied them down. Even though a few people say that stopped innovating or they lack originality, and most of their new investments including Android OS was to protect their reign over search, its still nothing short of amazing. From what we have seen coming out of Google X, it is clear that the founders are passionate about technology. I don't think any company explores or invests this much time and resources in something that doesn't tie directly with their business model. Facebook on the other hand seems to have just one agenda, Social. They want everything to be tied into it and want the whole world to use it. It is not to say that they haven't come up with some thing new or made any progress, its just that everything they do ties back into their core product. Facebook Platform / Open Graph are pretty incredible and I think there is a lot in this space that had not been explored yet. However, all this built around Facebook. There have been rumors about Facebook mobile, but nothing concrete. Is this because of Zuckerberg's vision strictly revolves around Facebook/Social and the idea of being open and connected ?

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    Everything Facebook does ties back into the social graph and frankly everything Google does ties back into search either by increasing the forms of indexable data (keyhole, maps etc.) or metadata (G+ is really about the +1) or distribution of search (Chrome to own browser access to search and Android to own mobile access to search). Frankly, Google does little beyond search and makes almost no money outside search (Adwords) or indexing/content (Adsense, Youtube). So the premise above that Google has tried a lot of different things and Facebook hasn't isn't entirely accurate.

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Mark Zuckerberg notoriously spend time trying to make a file/music sharing service, . Ever since, ‘hackers’ have had a very broad freedom to innovate. I’m assuming the reason most stuck to the Social graph is because they chose Facebook, and value the impact it allows them to have through that graph. What you call a single product comprise many very different technical layers, from scaling, to building computing factories, to monitoring libel laws and context collapse, up to a platform to integrate in mobile OSes. In spite of spectacular talent in making products like Photos or the NewsFeed, Facebook doesn’t really see itself as a product company as much as a platform company: they want to empower developers, builders who use their service. That has led to offer platforms outside of social at most of those layers: a new way to understand advocacy and social relations with a shared understanding of the mechanism behind the many alumni projects Causes, Quora, Asana, Jumo — those don't exactly the rhizome structure of barcamp or hashtags, but share self-organising principles and central message; open-source scaling solutions, platforms and philosophies, including what FriendFeed brought; open source hardware models for computing facilities; they didn’t turn those into a product most likely because they wouldn’t spare men-hours to compete against Amazon and Google (and IBM, for hardware) on that very competitive front yet, but its out there.

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