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As we continue to roll out the Future of Facebook video series, I thought it might be nice to supplement it with a report. So, I’m excited to say I’ve teamed up with John Smart, president of the Acceleration Studies Foundation, who is fleshing out a great overview of key trends, issues, and recommendations for Facebook’s future.
Part of the ‘open foresight‘ aspect of this project has been pulling in thoughts and opinions from the public as well as the experts. Though we have a series of questions available to be answered on Quora, we decided to put together a separate short 4 question survey with some of the juiciest questions for you to gnaw on, which will be integrated into the final report.
So, if you have a few minutes to share your thoughts on biggest threats, the “next big thing,” and what you’d do if YOU were at the helm of the Facebook ship – please help us out!
Click here to take the Future of Facebook Survey.
Thank you!
emergent by design 
1. The need for an open collaboration platform. History repeats itself* the personal computer only took off after IBM / Microsoft released the specs for a standardized platform on which suppliers could grow a market.
2. Loss of user trust, getting burned…
3. Come up with a few dozen business models to throw against the walls and see what sticks.
4. Making it easy for any business to build a customer service interface without any lock-in to a specific host or vendor. The business model of my choice would be to charge for successful transactions in an open competitive arena.
Cocreatr, I like your answer to #3. I wonder though if it’d make most sense for FB to deploy these business models outside of its core – by investing aggressively in startups, creating an incubator, etc. I think some business models / social media formations might not make sense inside the FB ecosystem.
#4 is a great idea. I too believe the “next FB” is likely to allow people to create more value in exchange for better consistent rewards. My hunch is that pulling in businesses and Groups With a Purpose is a likely next developmental step.
http://memebox.com/futureblogger/show/1426-the-mandate-of-kevin
Thank you, Alvis. Agree, making business models is easy, with this tool and book anyway. (I am 1/470 co-author). Where to deploy and mature the startup puts art there, indeed. (anagram intended)
Today i wanted to locate colleagues with a qualification profile via Linkedin, where 4000 of us maintain a profile, more up-to date than on the edited intranet. If we were to upgrade every one of them to enable search for our profiles with a business account (premium filters, 300 results), it would cost us $1million a year – for our own data! And we cannot yet filter for talent, that would quadruple the price if we let them. LI sells us back our own data with a hefty markup. How does that fit with your Mandate of Kevin?
I appreciate your hunch. For now I look for tools that work in-house and enable every employee to synchronize their employee database entry with their public or private profile from LinkedIn or wherever.