It was educational and informative. It wasn't until you mentioned it as being an ad that I went back to see who actually wrote the article. You increased it's effectiveness by focusing on it...and now even further. ;)
Sometimes, yes, but I've found "too-practiced" talks to be a bit off-putting as an audience member, especially if it's supposed to be more academic subject material. Probably not an issue if you're giving a TED talk, or you're doing a product rollout, but if I'm listening to a computer-science talk, and it's going to err in one direction or another, I'd rather have the not-that-rehearsed talk that fumbles a bit, versus the perfectly-scripted one that feels more like I'm watching a performance than listening to a scientist give me information.
I personally think they should focos on bands, musicians, and teenagers.
Regardless of whether or not its a good move by MySpace, i think its a little low class of FB not to send their CEO. Yes we all know the almighty FB is king and the MySpace is now officially making it known that they are riding 'bitch.' It's almost like they are proving a point.
Great point on this article. FB is starting to remind me of AOL. AOL users didn't care that you could run IE outside of AOL WWW or that you could use Thunderbird instead of AOL mail. Just make it simple and keep it simple. Good job.
Does that mean Facebook will vanish completely over the next 10 years and turn into a punchline? Simplicity comes in different forms; I suspect that FB is actually aiming for the wrong kind in this case.
