AND Share

YouTube is supposed to be a video-sharing site.

It has become a place for sharing music taste, including pseudo-video with only audio and pictures/lyrics on the front.

Facebook is defined to be a social utility for real connections.

Look, Facebook is going to lift the 5000 cap for maximum number of friends. Who has more than 5000 real friends?

And it has become world’s largest photo-sharing site.

And kindly take a look at how I have been using Facebook.

Twitter is built to let users update their statuses.

Then micro-blogging is born.

Tumblr is meant to be a tumblelog.

But reverse-chronicle visual bookmarking fosters it growth.

Why?

Because they are user-driven.

So?

Don’t stuff your vision into tight boxes.

5 Responses to “User-driven characteristic of web services makes product categorization less important”

1. ePi.Longo says:

   February 5, 2009 at 6:36 am

   But in my opinion, expandable doesn’t mean web services don’t exist to fulfill user needs. Product categorization can change but if we talk about brand image, need to consider
2. Anh Hung says:

   February 5, 2009 at 10:32 pm

   Thanks.

   Anyway, My latest post is heavily categorized, unless you have a better suggestion.
3. Tai says:

   February 6, 2009 at 3:53 pm

   @Anh Hung: This post is not a critics for your entry. It’s simply my observations
4. Tai says:

   February 6, 2009 at 3:56 pm

   @ePi.Longo: Agree. This entry is for the back-office side of product management

   It’s true that product positioning is vital in branding, and it helps in fund raising as well
5. Technology As Innovator » Blog Archive » The symbolic value of Tumblr: emotions says:

   May 30, 2009 at 8:53 am

   [...] So eventually, the difference in form leads to the difference in essence. Tumblelog is the heaven for emotions, popular art, creativity; it is the symbolic freedom of logging. What’s more, Tumblr has become more of a stream-based social image bookmark site. [...]