2008. That's 7 years ago. Ok. Seven years ago today, I
incorporated FB into napleslus. AT the time it was a viable
concept. Local business directory - nobody else was doing it,
bringing together all the news of the area. RSS feeds were free
and everywhere and I had some very complicated programming to
yank it all in and provide all the naples internet in one place.
But alas, times changed, feeds closed, the big G decided it
provided nothing unique to the Internet about two years ago and
no amount of work could bring it back to the first page status
and believe me, I tried for a long time. But I can't complain.
It had a VERY long, successful run as a profitable enterprise
and it still exists but with drastic changes to the whole
Internet environment it's in, the benefits aren't worth the
costs involved for radical change. Facebook and Google both
completely replaced all of the functionality of the site with
something better and, well, they won. Such is how it goes but
I'm glad I did what I did. It was fun to be the David against
the Goliaths for a long time.
