Friday, March 20, 2009
If I Worked for Facebook... I'd Target Outlook
If I worked for Facebook, I would wake up every day saying "How close are we to replacing Outlook as people's communications and contact management center?"
I'd buy Eventbrite, so that event management and registration would be done right inside Facebook.
I'd buy 30 Boxes, so that events and birthdays would go right on a calendar that could compete with Google Calendar. And I'd integrate meeting scheduler capability like Timebridge.
I'd build a better inbox! And maybe let people pick up copies of their POP email from FB.
And I'd figure out a way to let people tag their contacts, color-coding and filtering views - friends & family & business: clients, active prospects, acquaintances, frenemies, etc. And I'd integrate those views or color codes into the calendar and email functions.
And I'd let people build useful applications to help make Facebook be the place that organizes all people's personal and professional contact information. Of course, if my mission in life was to "organize all the world's information", I'd buy Facebook and implement/integrate the above ideas using my existing catalog of applications.
I'd buy Eventbrite, so that event management and registration would be done right inside Facebook.
I'd buy 30 Boxes, so that events and birthdays would go right on a calendar that could compete with Google Calendar. And I'd integrate meeting scheduler capability like Timebridge.
I'd build a better inbox! And maybe let people pick up copies of their POP email from FB.
And I'd figure out a way to let people tag their contacts, color-coding and filtering views - friends & family & business: clients, active prospects, acquaintances, frenemies, etc. And I'd integrate those views or color codes into the calendar and email functions.
And I'd let people build useful applications to help make Facebook be the place that organizes all people's personal and professional contact information. Of course, if my mission in life was to "organize all the world's information", I'd buy Facebook and implement/integrate the above ideas using my existing catalog of applications.
Labels: facebook, Google, innovation
