How To Monetize a Social Network: MySpace and Facebook Should Follow TenCent - Above the Crowd
March 9, 2009: “Little Joe never once gave it away Everybody had to pay and pay” — Lou Reed, Walk on the Wild Side The consensus seems to be that social networks have a monetization problem. On this topic, both the leading technology industry blogs and the world’s top news organizations agree. The problem is not that these sites have no revenue. I “guesstimate” that MySpace and Facebook have a
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Primates on Facebook
THAT Facebook, Twitter and other online social networks will increase the size of human social groups is an obvious hypothesis, given that they reduce a lot of the friction and cost involved in keeping in touch with other people. Once you join and gather your “friends” online, you can share in their lives as recorded by photographs, “status updates” and other titbits, and, with your permission, th
How Facebook is taking over our lives - Feb. 17, 2009
(Fortune Magazine) -- Facebook held no appeal for Peter Lichtenstein. The New Paltz, N.Y., resident had checked out so-called social networking sites before, and he wasn't impressed. ("MySpace," he recalls, "was ridiculous.") A chiropractor and acupuncturist, Lichtenstein was already a member of a few professional web-based user groups. The last thing he needed was another message box to check. Th
Report: Appraisal Set Facebook Value At $3.7 Billion
Stay on Top of Enterprise Technology Trends. Get updates impacting your industry from our GigaOm Research Community A Facebook appraisal discussed in court last summer put the value of the social network at $3.7 billion, a far cry from the $15 billion valuation based on Microsoft’s 2007 investment. The info comes from the Associated Press in a report that explains how it cracked the electronic ver
What could Facebook do to increase its digital goods revenue – increase Opportunity. 1/3
What could Facebook do to increase its digital goods revenue – increase Opportunity. 1/3 February 3, 2009 Posted by jeremyliew in digital goods, facebook, gifts, virtual goods. trackback Last September I estimated that Facebook is doing around $35m in digital goods sales. In November anonymous insiders suggested that it was closer to $50-60m in digital goods sales. That’s a healthy run rate, but I
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John Battelle's Search Blog Predictions 2009
John Battelle's Search Blog Thoughts on the intersection of tech, business, and society. Related: 2008 Predictions 2008 How I Did 2007 Predictions 2007 How I Did 2006 Predictions 2006 How I Did 2005 Predictions 2005 How I Did 2004 Predictions 2004 How I Did In each of the past five years I've written a predictions post – usually at year's end or… Related: 2008 Predictions 2008 How I Did 2007 Predi
Top Social Media Sites of 2008 (Facebook Still Rising) | TechCrunch
What were the top social media sites of 2008? ComScore came out with its worldwide traffic stats for November a few days ago (so these don’t include December). They are a mix of social networks and blogging platforms. Blogger, the orange line in the chart above, still rules the roost with an estimated 222 million unique worldwide visitors in November (up 44 percent from November, 2007). Facebook,
Interview With Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: Products, Funding, Competition | TechCrunch
I recently had a chance to sit down and have a one-on-one chat with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. There was lots to talk about, and he answered questions about, among other things, Facebook products, privacy issues, rumors about recent fundraising by the company, and competition with platform developers. Quotations below are based on my notes and roughly accurate. Platform v. Applications I asked
Web 2.0 Summit: a conversation with Mark Zuckerberg
John Battelle of Federated Media is interviewing Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive of Facebook, at the Web 2.0 Summit now. Zuckerberg spoke last year at the summit, wearing sandals. This year, Battelle noticed, Zuckerberg is wearing tennis shoes. The conversation started with a dance around questions that Zuckerberg couldn’t answer. Asking the same opening question as he did last year, Battelle sai
フェースブック: 収益計画は2011年までに、いまは成長が鍵 - 考えたヒント - 駒田明彦
Facebook: Revenue plan by 2011; Growth is key for now. | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com (October 9th, 2008 Posted by Sam Diaz @ 5:36 pm) Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he’s more focused on growing the social networking site than he is in finding a way to monetize it - at least for now. In a Q&A interview with German blog Netzökonom, Zuckerberg has basically given himself and the company three ye
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