http://www.dangerouslyawesome.com/2007/05/27/facebook-f8-find-your-niche-make-it-worthwhile/ development (tech and personal) thoughts of Alex Hillman Sun, 06 Jul 2008 07:32:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6-beta1 http://www.dangerouslyawesome.com/2007/05/27/facebook-f8-find-your-niche-make-it-worthwhile/#comment-11666 Alex Hillman Thu, 05 Jul 2007 20:57:01 +0000 http://www.dangerouslyawesome.com/2007/05/27/facebook-f8-look-at-the-market-for-better-opportunities/#comment-11666 <p>Eric, By Netflix for textbooks I meant distribute the per-book cost amongst a longer list of users. Almost like netflix is an online library for movies, where you can check them in and out as you need, it would be great to have a place where i could look up a textbook, make sure it was the right edition, and take it out for only as long as i needed it. Textbooks for higher education are EXORBITANTLY expensive. Why not distribute that cost among a number of users and make quality textbooks more accessible to students?</p> Eric,
By Netflix for textbooks I meant distribute the per-book cost amongst a longer list of users. Almost like netflix is an online library for movies, where you can check them in and out as you need, it would be great to have a place where i could look up a textbook, make sure it was the right edition, and take it out for only as long as i needed it. Textbooks for higher education are EXORBITANTLY expensive. Why not distribute that cost among a number of users and make quality textbooks more accessible to students?

]]> http://www.dangerouslyawesome.com/2007/05/27/facebook-f8-find-your-niche-make-it-worthwhile/#comment-11656 Eric Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:26:29 +0000 http://www.dangerouslyawesome.com/2007/05/27/facebook-f8-look-at-the-market-for-better-opportunities/#comment-11656 <p>Alex, I enjoyed your post. What do you mean by a Netflix for textbooks?</p> Alex, I enjoyed your post. What do you mean by a Netflix for textbooks?

]]> http://www.dangerouslyawesome.com/2007/05/27/facebook-f8-find-your-niche-make-it-worthwhile/#comment-7608 Chris Nagele Tue, 29 May 2007 15:22:07 +0000 http://www.dangerouslyawesome.com/2007/05/27/facebook-f8-look-at-the-market-for-better-opportunities/#comment-7608 <p>Alex, Thanks for the mention and the ideas. I agree with your points about F8. They offer some great flexibility, but I am not sure about the long-term implications. Although, that is actually the fun part about social networks. You never know where your users will take the tools that you have provided. I was never a big Facebook fan, but within the last six months their strategy and refinements have really grown on me.</p> Alex, Thanks for the mention and the ideas. I agree with your points about F8. They offer some great flexibility, but I am not sure about the long-term implications. Although, that is actually the fun part about social networks. You never know where your users will take the tools that you have provided. I was never a big Facebook fan, but within the last six months their strategy and refinements have really grown on me.

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