SIZEUP VS DIVVY SOFTWARE

Or else the Metaverse is a revisit of Second Life with improved resolution.

Whereas Facebook’s Metaverse, without having watched the video, seems to either be a quest to dominate the online identity business, which, while suitably and juicily ambitious and evil, does not seem to be as giant a business as the others. Nonetheless in comparison to these other giants M$ seems a company just trying to keep up - though wasn’t it ever thus yet things continue to work out just fine for them. And being wrapped up in the Apple ecosphere one can forget that Microsoft remains the dominant player in device operating systems. To me the Michael Scott social network seems more feasible to monetize than Facebook, but beyond that, the workplace feels at home with Microsoft a Microsoft product need only be almost as good as a competitor’s to be selected. Its other big purchase, LinkedIn, strengthens M$‘s lock on the domain they’ve dominated for decades: the workplace.

SIZEUP VS DIVVY SOFTWARE

Microsoft seems to have saved its bacon by going into gaming - which it totally deserves having developed the XBox - and by buying GitHub - and then in turn NPM! - and moving closer than any other corporation to open source, which was a scarily brilliant move that kind of upgrades its own DNA as a software maker (even as it likely somehow eventually stymies human progress). Yes, Facebook seems to have a lock on our relationships with friends and family, but it’s likely that nobody wants that intermediated by anything more than a tool it’s the part we most want to keep keeping real. Me, I never understood why Facebook and Microsoft are valued alongside Apple, Google and Amazon, which seem to have locks on more fundamental aspects of our lives: Apple for our increasingly central digital devices, Google for information garnered via those devices, and Amazon for fulfilling much of our material consumption. Still, I suspect that the more people use Facebook, the less the computers really will know about them … What makes Facebook so popular? The answer, I think is that Facebook exalts the insignificant. Where are the ads targeted to my tastes – harpsichords, assault rifles, kosher cookbooks, and cat toys? Perhaps I haven’t posted enough for the Matrix to process my profile. During this -26.4% period of reckoning for Facebook, David Goldman has linked to his 2012 essay What if Facebook is really worth $100 billion?

Sizeup vs divvy