DISQUS

Jeff,

Hope you heel (anf feel better) soon...

Interesting post - thought provoking - but I'd have two areas I'd like some clarification...
You stated: "He saw that Twitter was going to make a crapload of money"

I ask: Exactly how?

You stated: "Facebook, at this point, is growing 200,000 to 700,000 users per day."

I ask: That's a wide window that doesn't 'feel right', can you state your source (or can someone from Facebook tell us users, active users and new users per day?)

This quote from the article above strikes me as a very outdated way of looking at someone skills...

If you’re ideally suited for, say, a CFO position at a $750 million public company, then say exactly that, and why it’s the case. "If you can at least capture those highlights, one of our people can act on it."

Where the new breed of CFO's that understand how their marketing spending is changing and they are leading that change? I haven't seen one yet...

Well that is kinda annoying I opened up an account there several weeks before seeing this post - you should really post faster ;)

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You are right, it should be about metrics...

I think this is because we haven't yet had a gentrification of management teams so that we can have leaders who understand these what does and what does not matter in terms of web sites.

Very wise words...everyone needs to read them and internalize them!

"I am an optimist, I guess you have to be one to be in my line of work. Even in the midst of the worst downturn in my lifetime, I am thinking about what's next, how we are going to make money in the next run. Because as Andy points out, there will be one and we should be using this downturn to position ourselves well for when it comes."

Yeah, I'd agree, the technology is the easy part. I advise companies on the hard change management issues facing enterprises today...most are nowhere close to using social media for what it is best used for, creating customer innovation via feedback loops.

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While this is a bit too simplistic, it's certainly factual. I don't think frequency is the right metric though.

Did you analyze long tail accounts? That would be far more interesting.

@dalka

Yeah what he said. It's the first plugin in a long time that made me say "whoa, this has potential."

It's not perfect, but it has alot of potential.

One thing is that I've not yet seen it use my content elsewhere or redistribute it....

"I am NOT paid in any way by TC50. I have absolutely no business dealings with TC50. I have signed no contracts."

Two clarifiying questions to save time later:
1) Are you aligned with any of the 50 startups as an advisor or evangelist?

2) While we are at it, same question for Friendfeed...

When I got a cell phone in the USA in 1998 - the incoming text meessages were free.

It's time to go back to that policy. Today mobile operators have created a "strategic" hell with seperate plans and internal P&L's for minutes used talking, lbs, text and data plans.

This hell is not what consumers want or need for the rapid adoption of these tools to occur.

http://twitter.com/dalka

Does anyone other than me think the Facebook valuation in comparison to this Linkedin valuation $500 million on an alleged $100 million of revnue doesn't compute /match up? Who would these people be selling to? How do these buyers know these revenue numbers are accurate? I'm still baffled by the recent Linkedin round in that if I ran a business with $100 million in revnue, I think I'd be managing it in a way where I wouldn't be dilution of equity in a significant way.

*disclaimer - I don't have all of the details one would need to do this analysis, but something doesn't "feel quite right here".

sent an email...we'll see what kind of response I get

News is *not* always first in a Google ranking when there is news.

Fred,

I'll play devil's advocate on this so you can clarify your definition....

Many ordinary folks think RSS numbers from Feedburner = actual daily blog readership Does this mean you should add a disclaimer that about your 135K RSS figure to be fully transparent so that some people aren't misled?

Or does it mean that an uneducated market gets inferior information due to a lack of thorough research and certain knowledge and that's always the way it's been?

It's about relevancy, not quantity of traffic. You're right about quantity, wrong about relevancy to people who live "outside social media". Links, like it or not, still determine that for "normal people" - you know those 99.9% of the world that actually lives outside the echo chamber. For many people those random search visitors are far more valuable.

Amen.

Nice list...

how about a follow up on team dynamics and revenue models?

I have a right to have that blog have a hotlink my comment name back to my blog so that people can discover who I am if they like the comment. Alot of new comment widgets and bigger sites ignore this and that is why many bloggers don't leave comments on those sites.

Thanks for sharing this moving story. It opens the complex dialougue of peace, which is more complex than many of us fully understand.

@Kevin Gamble

LMAO - but accurate

Who needs another echo chanmber of the same over-exposed people? Is this progress? I'm looking for relevancy. I didn't see it in my 5 minutes logging into Friendfeed today...maybe I'm missing something?

Great post...Listening is a hard skill, I've been doing alot of it lately.

I'm not a heavy Twitter follower nor followee - I'm half and half. Does this make me balanced?

http://twitter.com/dalka

sounds like SXSW is overexposed and tired...