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Re: MyYearBook Gunning For Facebook Market

Brian Breslin — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:33:17 -0000

I think they needa use some of that $4mil to hire some designers. The hotpink on blue navigation hurt my eyes. I agree with Michelle's thoughts of it being a marketing ploy. most likely right. The brother also said he threw in 250k of his own money. Thats a good amount to start something like this. using the kids as the hosts is an all around smart move. Problem this site faces, just like all the other HS oriented ones is, kids leave the site after they graduate, so there is a 4 year window there, and thats it. Facebook has overcome this challenge, but i don't see myyearbook having this strength.

Re: Webpl.us redesign

Brian Breslin — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 01:28:27 -0000

Thanks for the writeup alex!

Re: SocialMedia Raises $1M for Facebook App Network

Brian Breslin — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 10:38:08 -0000

i really think this is a good thing. means the economy around fb apps is bound to be huge. lots of money to be made there folks.

Re: INSANITY: Facebook App Sells to TripAdvisor for $3 Million

Brian Breslin — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 12:03:08 -0000

i too was taken aback at first by the size of the deal, but i've seen way more money dumped into much less popular sites outside of facebook in the form of venture money.

this is a great play for tripadvisor, they have great ties to the travel booking market, and this provides them with data on 2million+ users who are potentially future long term customers of expedia, etc. they now know where all these people want to go, and where their friends want to go...

Re: Google Earth Shows Real-Time Traffic

Brian Breslin — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 15:03:41 -0000

where is realtime traffic available on goog earth? the photo of my office is so old, it shows 2 buildings which were torn down and already replaced a year ago as still being next door.

Re: TorrentSpy Blocks U.S. Users In Response to Court Order to Log IP Adresses

Brian Breslin — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 17:22:42 -0000

noooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Re: Second Facebook Application for Sale on eBay

Brian Breslin — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 14:49:39 -0000

I think $5k is a bit much for 600 daily active users.
The application needs to be completely overhauled. But the 250k installed base is very attractive.

Re: LinkedIn Takes a Page Out of the Facebook

Brian Breslin — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 11:48:04 -0000

i think you mean linkedin is launching user photos.

Re: At, On and In Seesmic

Brian Breslin — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:26:21 -0000

hey Jeff, I would also love a seesmic invite, my twitter user is brbreslin.
thanks!
Brian

Re: Scrapblog Raises Capital from Steamboat Ventures

Brian Breslin — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:13:27 -0000

adam. the logo you used in the post is old.
they have a file you can download here
http://scrapblog.com/press/...

Re: 20 Free Blogfuse Accounts For TechCrunch Readers

Brian Breslin — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 22:50:06 -0000

I think being one of the first 20 commenters and the fact I write a lot about facebook and other social networking technologies would make me a good fit.

I do think this is a clever way to sell a service.

Re: Profile of Success – Neil Patel

Brian Breslin — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 09:59:53 -0000

btw don't forget that neil isn't running ACS by himself, there are a bunch of other really talented folks there too (Hiten, Cam olthuis used to be there, and others). regardless though, he has done a masterful job of self-branding, and building his business.

blogging about making money won't make you money, its implementing the methods you are blogging about, thats the key.

Re: My 2007 in cities and celebrities

Brian Breslin — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:11:06 -0000

dude. you are awesome. totally honored to be on your list of web celebs. are you gonna make it to sxsw? you definitely should. let me know when it gets too cold for you in colorado and you decide to come down to Miami.

It was awesome meeting you too this year. I think we'd known each other online for a couple years before right?

Re: What Facebook’s Developer Announcement means: How Community can be Portable

Brian Breslin — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 16:55:59 -0000

Jeremiah,
This announcement is getting confused I think. People seem to think they can now create canvases filled with api data on their own sites using this. Not really the case, this may make it more dynamic to build apps, but their api allowed much of this already, so its a matter of them trying to disseminate the info they have on users in a bit more flexible manner.

Re: How Much Is a Facebook Ad Worth? Lookery "Guarantees" (Drum Roll) 12.5-Cent CPMs.

Brian Breslin — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:43:35 -0000

Videoegg is paying $5/CPM. or so their report stated. Their ads are quite a bit more complex though.

Erick, there is a lot more to this story than 12cent cpms, it just hasn't bubbled up to the surface yet.

Re: Is OpenSocial Social at All?

Brian Breslin — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 20:46:12 -0000

Finally! I've been saying this for months. OpenSocial is closer to OpenGadgets or GoogleGadgets Platform for the web. We have to start distinguishing between a widget, and an actual App on these networks. One is far more robust than the other.
Relatively complex applications can be built on the facebook social graph, the same case cannot be said for opensocial yet.

Glad everyone isn't drinking all the google kool-aid/anti facebook kool-aid

Re: Silicon Valley Arrogance

Brian Breslin — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:24:48 -0000

Do you think being outside the echochamber helps? I think you probably would come up with more distinctive ideas outside the valley. thinking outside the box.
although being in the valley has a myriad of advantages (recruitment, access to capital, networking, and getting info faster)

Re: fb:21-plus – Pornography coming to Facebook?

Brian Breslin — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:41:14 -0000

there is also a if-legaldrinkingage tag. not sure if they've loaded every country age in there.

Re: Jake And Amir Dot Com

Brian Breslin — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 21:47:51 -0000

are you guys going to FOWA? we should film a video down here (in miami)

Re: Twitter Goes Head to Head With Digg.

Brian Breslin — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 21:04:50 -0000

TwitThis is not new, its been around about a year. Its by the same guys as crazyegg.com

Re: Are Facebook Photo Websites Legal?

Brian Breslin — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:07:02 -0000

how do they get access to these people's albums? does this person have a master account? or did these girls want the attention so they set their albums to public?

Re: MyBlogLog Getting Into Identity Management

Brian Breslin — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:56:28 -0000

Well mybloglog seems to have disappeared from LOTS of sites, so I wonder what their reach is like.

Also how hard would it be for someone to create an fb app, set people's cookies, then tie it into mybloglog or a clone?

I'd find real profiles (not the spam i've seen in MBL) of people I know more appealing.

This is more of a play for Attention profile data, and thats the key for yahoo having bought them.

Re: Is News Feed Optimization Making a Comeback?

Brian Breslin — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 09:40:53 -0000

Realistically in your app, you need to be measuring where your users come from. So as to optimize as much as possible. Depending on the nature of your app you can probably determine a good ratio of news feed leads to profile leads and finally to invite/notification leads.

the platform is maturing, so we're definitely at a stage 1.5 i would say in terms of what apps will gain traction, and maintain use.

Re: The UADA: Biggest Facebook App Co. or Marketing Scam?

Brian Breslin — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:45:36 -0000

So does UADA stand for united app developers association? this is just a guess.
There should be an announcement next week w/regards to this. maybe the rockyou folks or slide folks know more about this.

90M installs would be a formidable base.

Re: Rackspace+Offers+Cloud+Computing+with%26nbsp%3BMosso

Brian Breslin — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:38:43 -0000

Erick,
Their price is $0.03/1000 requests.