Facebook

Every since I first logged onto Facebook a few months ago I've been trying to convince my American friends that it's clearly the next big thing, and in my view, the Myspace killer everyone has been predicting. I based this on the fact that all of my Canadian friends appeared to have signed up in a one month timespan, and more importantly, because Facebook was fostering the creation of external apps. This blog/article put it more clearly - Facebook is a disruptive technology (as described in The Innovator's Dilemma, one of the only things I remember from business school) that is going to alter the way we communicate and do business. Myspace, which has failed to innovate at an equal pace or in the right direction, does not have the potential to be taken seriously as a business tool. Between apps like Facebook, Twitter, and Secondlife, the same senses are tingling now that did when I first logged onto a BBS in 1992... something really big is happening.