Pony Ma：Not Optimistic About Facebook's Open Platform Model

When interviewed by a reporter last week, Pony Ma made it clear that he was not optimistic about Facebook's open platform model. "Abroad these things are easily outdated and will soon touch the ceiling, just like Internet chat room."

Last year in May, Facebook launched a developer platform, attracting a large number of developers, thus the introduction of a wealth of application software and services, thus promoting the rapid growth in the number of subscribers. Facebook platform in view of the strong development momentum, other sites have follow-up, Google launched an open platform for social networking sites OpenSocial, the campus network and other domestic social networking sites also mimic this model.

However, Pony Ma said that he had not seen such an open platform can really bring any high-value things. He insisted that should be a good platform to provide their own applications and services, leading at least part of their development should be. "We may be unhappy that the opening will always be better. In fact, if the application is good, his platform developers will do, sooner or later be replaced if it is not, and that certainly is not good."

Pony Ma of Tencent is the idea of "one-stop Internet service providers" and Tencent goal is to create "life-line community." On the one hand, provide free instant messaging QQ, e-mail, online store and community services, and other basic applications, gathered popularity, bringing traffic on the other hand, QQ through this platform, enter the information portal, online games, e-commerce, online payment , Search and other fields, bringing cash and income, thereby creating a mature business model.

In fact, apart from Tencent, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Alibaba, Baidu, etc., are all done in a similar layout. Ma Huateng, Tencent's advantage lies in the fact that it has the largest user of instant messaging, China's first flow of the portal, the coverage of China's Internet users reached 90 percent.