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What are credits used for on Facebook?

What makes Facebook so incredibly good at adapting its product?

  • Twitter and former competitors like MySpace by comparison haven't come out with anywhere close to as many high impact products.  Facebook examples include news feed, open registration, platform, stream, pages, improvements in technology behind things like photos, translations, growth tactics, credits, privacy transition, per post privacy and other privacy tools, like feature, etc.  Also, the products described by Techcrunch recently sound like they have a lot of potential.  The result has been significant increases in growth and engagement.  Increasingly Facebook is being used all over the web, including Connect and pages.  This is a follow-up question to .

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    There are two primary reasons: Mark Zuckerberg's general sense of "you can always be better, you can always do more." An engineering team that is relatively unencumbered by process, bureaucracy, and the influence of business-oriented departments.

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Mark Zuckerberg said in an interview that a lot of technology companies become complacent once they become prominent, and become replaced by smaller disruptive companies. He said that he's always looking for new things to do to keep that from happening. Facebook does not make acquisitions to gain more market share or limit the competition. They acquire companies for their talent, for example, Friendfeed and Sofa (mac software). Friendfeed gave Facebook many patents, as the one for the Top News. Sofa make stunning mac software. Here's some Facebook slogans Move fast and break things. (a Mark Zuckerberg slogan) What would you do if you weren't afraid? Is this a technology company? Done is better than perfect. Source: http://www.designforfun.com/display.php?id=115

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