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Re: If SnapChat Is The Next Big Thing…

ifindkarma — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 19:03:52 -0000

Rumors of the death of Consumer have been greatly exaggerated.

Re: The Problem With The Etsy Women Hacker Grants

ifindkarma — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 15:39:51 -0000

Natasha, I just re-read this article in the context of Etsy telling the world how they've increased the size of their engineering team by almost 500% thanks to this program:

http://pandawhale.com/post/...

A lot of what you wrote here still resonates with me, and I hope Etsy takes the time to consider your feedback.

Re: Ten million users is the new one million users

ifindkarma — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 12:57:38 -0000

Pinwheel-now-Findery, Path, Chill, Color, Quora, Flipboard, TastyLabs, DuckDuckGo, Wattpad... But perhaps those companies are different because they have proven founders.

Re: A Windy Path into Venture

ifindkarma — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 15:14:36 -0000

Congrats on joining the Venture side, Semil!!

I'm looking forward to a series of posts saying what an EIR does all day, every day.

Re: http://britmorin.com/post/13841966418

ifindkarma — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:21:45 -0000

Congrats to Path!

At the risk of answering a rhetorical question, Very Hungry Cat is an adorable game from the makers of the Glass Tower series of games. Essentially it's a cartoon cat that the player feeds birds to. It's not addictive like Angry Birds but it is quite cute, and probably has spread by word-of-mouth.

Re: How Facebook Can Become Bigger In Five Years Than Google Is Today

ifindkarma — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 20:14:38 -0000

Thank you for the feedback.

Just because they don't have something today, doesn't mean they never will.

Re: How Facebook Can Become Bigger In Five Years Than Google Is Today

ifindkarma — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 20:13:44 -0000

Facebook has 1500 very talented people thinking about how to get revenue per user up to $30 per year.

The company has only just begun to think about valuable things they can offer Facebook users.

The best remains to be invented. It's coming.

Re: How Facebook Can Become Bigger In Five Years Than Google Is Today

ifindkarma — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 20:12:10 -0000

As you point out, collectively we use more services than just Facebook.

However, collectively most of us are using Facebook, whereas only some of us are using Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Posterous, etc.

Facebook still is the biggest by far, and has the ability to be the center of it all.

Re: How Facebook Can Become Bigger In Five Years Than Google Is Today

ifindkarma — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 20:08:51 -0000

Good points. Thank you for the feedback, Paul.

Re: How Facebook Can Become Bigger In Five Years Than Google Is Today

ifindkarma — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 20:07:52 -0000

Facebook could start an ad network. Or it could buy an ad network. Or both.

Facebook has a lot of options right now. Don't rule anything out.

Re: How Facebook Can Become Bigger In Five Years Than Google Is Today

ifindkarma — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 20:06:39 -0000

Comparing most things Facebook does with most things Google does is, as you pointed out, like comparing apples and oranges.

The one place where we can compare that is the same is dollars taken in.

We're going to have to wait until Facebook goes public before we know for sure that they're taking in as much money as I think they are.

But if they are, they're growing faster as a company than Google was at the same point in its history.

Re: How Facebook Can Become Bigger In Five Years Than Google Is Today

ifindkarma — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 20:04:20 -0000

Everyone you don't know is clicking on ads in Facebook.

I'd guess it happens more than 10 million times a day now.

Re: How Facebook Can Become Bigger In Five Years Than Google Is Today

ifindkarma — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 20:03:54 -0000

No one has made a social network even close to the level of success of Facebook's.

Not even close.

Re: How Facebook Can Become Bigger In Five Years Than Google Is Today

ifindkarma — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 20:03:13 -0000

I do not work for AOL, and though I did enjoy the movie The Social Network, I wrote this before I saw that movie.

But it's funny you should mention iPad. I love my iPad and told a friend I thought Apple would sell 20 million of them next year to which he replied that he thought my number was low. But I stick by my number, and then realized...

20 million iPads x at least $500 charged per iPad = $10 billion market created one year after launch

Wow.

Re: How Facebook Can Become Bigger In Five Years Than Google Is Today

ifindkarma — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 20:00:15 -0000

Done right, Facebook Credits will be as respectable as American Express, Visa, or Mastercard.

Re: How Facebook Can Become Bigger In Five Years Than Google Is Today

ifindkarma — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 19:59:11 -0000

Android is an interesting operating system. I own an HTC Evo, which runs Android 2.2.

But Android is not on most smartphones. In the U.S. iPhone and Blackberry combined have the majority of market share; worldwide Symbian and Blackberry combined have the majority of market share.

I point this out to make Scoble's point: Facebook runs on all of them. It is OS-dependent. And that's relevant because whoever Facebook uses for searches, whether Bing or their own search, is going to represent a significant amount of mobile searching five years from now.

Re: How Facebook Can Become Bigger In Five Years Than Google Is Today

ifindkarma — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 19:55:03 -0000

That is an excellent point. Thank you, Scoble!!

Re: How Facebook Can Become Bigger In Five Years Than Google Is Today

ifindkarma — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 19:54:33 -0000

First off, Google is not going away. (And if it did go away, a dozen companies would race to re-create what Google offered, since as you pointed out, Google's products are very helpful in navigating the Web as we know it.)

Apple on the other hand is worth a lot more than Google, because they create the devices (computers, phones, ipods, and tablets) from which we do our Google searches -- and everything else.

Furthermore, Apple has hundreds of thousands of specialty applications that allow a person to search a part of human knowledge without searching the whole web. The apps that run on iPhones, iPods, and iPads circumvent traditional searches in many cases. Why search the Web when I can use the Wikipedia app or the Yelp app or the Pandora app or the Kayak app or the YouTube app... or the Facebook app...

Apple is more than a few entertainment products. Apple influences the design of all computers, phones, mobile devices, and tablets from all manufacturers. Everyone else follows their lead.

Re: How Facebook Can Become Bigger In Five Years Than Google Is Today

ifindkarma — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 19:48:42 -0000

China and India are big places for Internet growth in the coming decade, and Facebook is already thinking through products and services it can offer the people there, too.

Facebook has the expertise, the resources, and the desire to keep improving its user interfaces and the ways people access its services.

Re: How Facebook Can Become Bigger In Five Years Than Google Is Today

ifindkarma — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 19:46:17 -0000

Facebook doesn't need people to defend it in forums such as this, because the real people who defend Facebook are the hundreds of millions of people who are using the service every single day, and they defend it through their usage.

Re: How Facebook Can Become Bigger In Five Years Than Google Is Today

ifindkarma — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 19:41:13 -0000

Of course Google will continue to grow and its products will become more useful. No doubt in my mind about that.

Re: How Facebook Can Become Bigger In Five Years Than Google Is Today

ifindkarma — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 19:40:05 -0000

Thank you for calling this story engaging. I wasn't actively trying to misspell anything, but it happens when my brain is moving faster than my keys type, and I'm happy if TechCrunch's editors want to go back and fix the typos later. I do not have access to TechCrunch's content management system or I'd fix them myself.

But please don't be upset by the interesting spellings. Shakespeare and Twain were creative spellers, as was President Andrew Johnson, according to the Freakonomics blog: http://freakonomics.blogs.n...

Re: How Facebook Can Become Bigger In Five Years Than Google Is Today

ifindkarma — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 19:33:46 -0000

Mark Twain on spelling: http://www.twainquotes.com/...

Ode to a Spell Checker: http://everything2.com/titl...

Re: How Facebook Can Become Bigger In Five Years Than Google Is Today

ifindkarma — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 19:29:38 -0000

MySpace has 57 million users in the U.S. alone: http://venturebeat.com/2010...

In what way is that irrelevant?

Re: How Facebook Can Become Bigger In Five Years Than Google Is Today

ifindkarma — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 19:23:07 -0000

I am neither a fanboy nor have I ever owned a single share of Facebook.

I do have tremendous respect for both the team and the product that Facebook has developed, and I believe we have only seen the beginning of what they are capable of achieving.

Facebook will never "rule the Internet" but it is already the single biggest website in use around the world, by far: More page views than the next 99 websites combined: http://www.businessinsider....

That's not a fad. It's big, and it's real.