Comments on: This week StudiVZ won a battle against Facebook – will they lose the war? http://eu.techcrunch.com/2009/06/19/this-week-studivz-won-a-battle-against-facebook-will-they-lose-the-war/ Tracking European web and mobile start-ups Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:42:25 +0100 hourly 1 By: Dominik Mayer http://eu.techcrunch.com/2009/06/19/this-week-studivz-won-a-battle-against-facebook-will-they-lose-the-war/comment-page-1/#comment-232411 Dominik Mayer Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:14:03 +0000 http://uk.techcrunch.com/?p=5484#comment-232411 The problem with social networks is: Their value mostly consist of the people you find in there. So if all your friends are using MySpace, who would you share your things with in Facebook. And there are many StudiVZ users that have never heard of facebook and are surprised to find out that their beloved website is nothing but a rip-off. Of course, being innovative is the best thing you can do -- and StudiVZ's "innovations" solely consist of trying to copy the new features Facebook introduces -- but as we clearly see: It is very hard for Facebook to convince the people that it is the original. I've been living in China for over a year now. You can get copied DVDs on every corner for less than one Euro. While I'm not a fan of the things, the movie and music industrie does, this showes that they'll hardly get a return of investment here. But how should a company survive if it has to pay the people to invent things while others just reproduce. The problem with social networks is: Their value mostly consist of the people you find in there. So if all your friends are using MySpace, who would you share your things with in Facebook. And there are many StudiVZ users that have never heard of facebook and are surprised to find out that their beloved website is nothing but a rip-off.

Of course, being innovative is the best thing you can do — and StudiVZ’s “innovations” solely consist of trying to copy the new features Facebook introduces — but as we clearly see: It is very hard for Facebook to convince the people that it is the original.

I’ve been living in China for over a year now. You can get copied DVDs on every corner for less than one Euro. While I’m not a fan of the things, the movie and music industrie does, this showes that they’ll hardly get a return of investment here. But how should a company survive if it has to pay the people to invent things while others just reproduce.

]]> By: Gebadia Smith http://eu.techcrunch.com/2009/06/19/this-week-studivz-won-a-battle-against-facebook-will-they-lose-the-war/comment-page-1/#comment-232390 Gebadia Smith Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:33:56 +0000 http://uk.techcrunch.com/?p=5484#comment-232390 I always thought that was a reality of doing something well. Everyone copies you and there is nothing you can do but simply keep on innovating.. Long term does that not benefit the user? Facebook is better because it has twitter pushing it..twitter is better because it has friendfeed pushing it.. I can see how the code part could be an issue but the truth is competition makes us better.. I just don't see why Facebook doesn't simply say.. we could care less cause we are going to do it bigger and better and users will be motivated to switch. I always thought that is what google should of done when MS was going to buy Yahoo.. Instead of fighting it they should of said hey we welcome the competition.. it doesn't matter what MS does because we will do it better.. I always thought that was a reality of doing something well. Everyone copies you and there is nothing you can do but simply keep on innovating.. Long term does that not benefit the user? Facebook is better because it has twitter pushing it..twitter is better because it has friendfeed pushing it.. I can see how the code part could be an issue but the truth is competition makes us better..

I just don’t see why Facebook doesn’t simply say.. we could care less cause we are going to do it bigger and better and users will be motivated to switch. I always thought that is what google should of done when MS was going to buy Yahoo.. Instead of fighting it they should of said hey we welcome the competition.. it doesn’t matter what MS does because we will do it better..

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