Facebook as the intranet
Andrew McAfee wrote an interesting article asking people about the viability on using social networking software as the foundation of Intranets. He has asked “what are the good reasons for continuing to invest in and forge ahead with 1.0 Intranets?
I found his post extremely interesting and I must say it is obviously possible due to the fact that Facebook allows customised applications to running on its site and is very scalable. However, the first thought that came to my mind is Facebook is a SOCIAL NETWORKING software whereas an intranet is a “mini” internet for the organisation. So my argument is can facebook be the launch pad and foundation to the internet? Maybe… Some Facebook fanatics would do it, but I surely won’t.
Intranet is a place where people log on, search for information and conduct some form of transaction. My idea of a good intranet is a series of Mashups just like Google personalised homepage where you can access the applications that you want , a good search engine, provide news and feeds on on issues that matters to your job scope. So if Facebook is to be the intranet it would have to be setup similarly to Google personalised homepage and some attributes of social networking. Social networking will be good for an organisation but as the intranet, I think this idea is being brought too far out.
However, in large companies, Intranet is pretty much a host of different sites, applications and design. To consolidate all these information together would be mammoth task and the value in doing that might not be very high.
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