I must admit that I am more than impressed to find that you have eyes all over the social media landscape! I salute you for that!

Now, moving on, let me be clear about one thing: IBM, in my opinion, has always been one of the top giant companies in its R&D initiatives and thus, naturally, people like me and others do expect continuous creativity followed up with unmatched product/service development. This is why I was motivated to write this post in the first place: I was making sure that IBM still is what we all expect it to be: A company which is able to meet and further exceed our expectations.

On another subject, I don't know if you have read any other articles on this blog yet if you do, you'll find that I am not a great fan of Facebook yet I believe in its innovation efforts and constant need for introducing new and various tools which make the user experience more valuable. Therefore, I would like to argue against your point: Facebook has been an effective tool for businesses (small and large ones) and it played an important role in making people meet, spreading news and ideas as well as sharing many items of interest easily.

Finally, I would like to ask you a question: What would motivate me, or anyone else to leave Facebook and join DeveloperWorks apart from your promise that it will be able “to prove to increase productivity within business environments” ?

Thank you for your time and attention.

Afterall, you do need to enable the 'facebook' generation when they come into the workplace in the near future. How will they collaborate within the corporate enviornment? It's definitely not going to be through physical memos. ;)

Facebook is just first generation of a social network and has yet to prove to increase productivity within business envrionments (stuff that puts food on the table). IBM Research has been working on numerous projects that go far beyond that. Have a vist, http://www.ibm.com/lotus

In conclusion, its about moving and growing away from dating/teen oriented 'social' networking to more productive, knowledge sharing, information management oriented social networking.

I must admit that I am more than impressed to find that you have eyes all over the social media landscape! I salute you for that!

Now, moving on, let me be clear about one thing: IBM, in my opinion, has always been one of the top giant companies in its R&D initiatives and thus, naturally, people like me and others do expect continuous creativity followed up with unmatched product/service development. This is why I was motivated to write this post in the first place: I was making sure that IBM still is what we all expect it to be: A company which is able to meet and further exceed our expectations.

On another subject, I don't know if you have read any other articles on this blog yet if you do, you'll find that I am not a great fan of Facebook yet I believe in its innovation efforts and constant need for introducing new and various tools which make the user experience more valuable. Therefore, I would like to argue against your point: Facebook has been an effective tool for businesses (small and large ones) and it played an important role in making people meet, spreading news and ideas as well as sharing many items of interest easily.

Finally, I would like to ask you a question: What would motivate me, or anyone else to leave Facebook and join DeveloperWorks apart from your promise that it will be able “to prove to increase productivity within business environments” ?

Thank you for your time and attention.

I must admit that I am more than impressed to find that you have eyes all over the social media landscape! I salute you for that!

Now, moving on, let me be clear about one thing: IBM, in my opinion, has always been one of the top giant companies in its R&D initiatives and thus, naturally, people like me and others do expect continuous creativity followed up with unmatched product/service development. This is why I was motivated to write this post in the first place: I was making sure that IBM still is what we all expect it to be: A company which is able to meet and further exceed our expectations.

On another subject, I don't know if you have read any other articles on this blog yet if you do, you'll find that I am not a great fan of Facebook yet I believe in its innovation efforts and constant need for introducing new and various tools which make the user experience more valuable. Therefore, I would like to argue against your point: Facebook has been an effective tool for businesses (small and large ones) and it played an important role in making people meet, spreading news and ideas as well as sharing many items of interest easily.

Finally, I would like to ask you a question: What would motivate me, or anyone else to leave Facebook and join DeveloperWorks apart from your promise that it will be able “to prove to increase productivity within business environments” ?

Thank you for your time and attention.

Afterall, you do need to enable the 'facebook' generation when they come into the workplace in the near future. How will they collaborate within the corporate enviornment? It's definitely not going to be through physical memos. ;)

Facebook is just first generation of a social network and has yet to prove to increase productivity within business envrionments (stuff that puts food on the table). IBM Research has been working on numerous projects that go far beyond that. Have a vist, http://www.ibm.com/lotus

In conclusion, its about moving and growing away from dating/teen oriented 'social' networking to more productive, knowledge sharing, information management oriented social networking.

Afterall, you do need to enable the 'facebook' generation when they come into the workplace in the near future. How will they collaborate within the corporate enviornment? It's definitely not going to be through physical memos. ;)

Facebook is just first generation of a social network and has yet to prove to increase productivity within business envrionments (stuff that puts food on the table). IBM Research has been working on numerous projects that go far beyond that. Have a vist, http://www.ibm.com/lotus

In conclusion, its about moving and growing away from dating/teen oriented 'social' networking to more productive, knowledge sharing, information management oriented social networking.

But you are right about web saturation. It is becoming harder and harder for a new innovation to stand out in the current state of Web 2.0.

Anyway, this should be all for the best of us. Eventually an evolutionary process will take place and only those unique with real value to users would stand out and survive.

I read another article today speaking of imitation and innovation: TweetDeck Has a Fierce Rival in Seesmic Desktop

It seems that IBM is not the only imitator around!

Check it out at: http://mashable.com/2009/05/02/tweetdeck-seesmic/

Sometimes, by nature of our work, we are forced to use multiple services that more or less do the same job but I am sure that the average user will not fall into that trap!

One more thing, you got me thinking A LOT about incremental innovation… I think I should dedicate a whole post speaking of this topic!

Thank you for your comments guys.

On the other hand, in many cases, cloning is important. It’s a usability issue.

Imagine if a new service comes up, it’s got a ton of new features/ideas/concepts, but avoided all the ones that you already know. So, they avoided ’status updates’ and ‘wall posts’, and ‘discussion threads’. In my opinion, no one will even bother to find out what this service is about!

But you are right about web saturation. It is becoming harder and harder for a new innovation to stand out in the current state of Web 2.0.

Anyway, this should be all for the best of us. Eventually an evolutionary process will take place and only those unique with real value to users would stand out and survive.