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He took a job without having any idea what he will be doing?

Facebook will likely give him the latitude to write his own job description and recruit his own team. The end result hopefully will be something that he enjoys, and that benefits Facebook and its users.

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I think that's what google did when they let him work on google wave, didn't work quite well. Let's hope it does work better this time.

Wave was a horrible implementation of a decent idea. For the longest time it felt like they did absolutely no work on the wave project (at least not from the users perspective).

I think the main problem with wave was that it wasn't solving any problems it was just mashing up a lot of features in to one application and never recovered from performance issues.

> I think the main problem with wave was that it wasn't > solving any problems it was just mashing up a lot > of features in to one application.

Kinda sounds like Facebook to me. They seem to be handling growth / performance well though.

Google Wave was a great idea but making it standalone application was the mistake, IMO. I am pretty sure the ideas Google Wave generated will be implemented on the right application someday. Facebook might be the platform for Lars to implement his pet project (Wave).

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