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Re: The problem with Facebook

drBaher — Sat, 03 May 2008 01:21:42 -0000

my answer to your concern is this:
entertainment and fun beats informative and useful every time

Re: Facebook wants to be the Web OS

drBaher — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:03:01 -0000

Developing on facebook gives you access to its users and means of viral marketing, but if you're building for the web, you might as well do it on your own.

And even the type of apps that are developed for facebook may not hold its worth on the web.

Re: How much is a SuperPoke worth?

drBaher — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:22:59 -0000

Whether this valuation makes sense or not is up to facebook's future, You can check my post about it http://technozzle.com/?p=51

I guess that similar deals/valuations will take place this year because of the "Facebook effect".

Re: Hey, Steve — you broke the Internet

drBaher — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 16:11:24 -0000

Despite the high profile event, twitter guys were not ready... Maybe twitter is technically limited (rails anyone?), I think they own their community an explanation.

My post about it http://technozzle.com/?p=40

Re: The Long Tail Of Business Models

drBaher — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:48:35 -0000

I've create a wiki for Media Business Models
http://www.mediabusinessmodels.com

I've already added your Chris' original list and your additions as well, and I hope more people will contribute to it in the future.
Here's my blog post about it http://technozzle.com/?p=38

Re: Huge: Facebook, Plaxo and Google open up

drBaher — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 14:29:13 -0000

Although Data is very important to any social network, what you do with the data is the real essence of any service, and depending on users’ data for value is not a good business decision, as sooner or later users will move on to better social networks.

Plus, I don’t think social networks will open all of their data, just share some of it and allow its users to export them using certain yet-to-be-know standards.

Re: Why You Can Sometimes Wait For Scale To Execute Your Business Model

markslater — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:56:57 -0000

really? hmmm. Think alladvantage. Call me crazy but as a CMGi alum i can tell you first hand that the 'get big quick' model has many flaws. if businesses today are to avoid these fault lines on their plans they better be pursuing scale and users in parallel with pragmatic sustainable revenue horizons. I just dont believe that the first holds sustainable value without the second anymore.

Re: Why You Can Sometimes Wait For Scale To Execute Your Business Model

drBaher — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 11:26:19 -0000

I completely agree with your rationale.
Once you have scale and good user base, generating money is a matter of time and experimenting with known and new business models.

But also starting early with business model will prove beneficial on the long term, as you will have the change to modify and improve your model based on the feedback concurrently with getting more users and improving the service.

Re: Video interlude: Techmeme time-lapse

drBaher — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 12:55:20 -0000

Somewhat relevant to the post I was tipped that another meme tracker “Megite” is overtaking Techmeme in the last few weeks according to compete.com:

http://technozzle.com/?p=20

Maybe Techmeme is not that prevalent as we like to think, or maybe it’s only popular in the tech blogger circle (the echo chamber).

Re: Should Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail block Facebook?

drBaher — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:08:36 -0000

What you raised is a perfectly legitimate question, based on what facebook has done to scoble (not that it's wrong), Gmail, Microsoft and Yahoo are entitled to do the same.

Facebook better come up with acceptable means for people to take control of their data (not all of it).

Re: drBaher

drBaher — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:50:28 -0000

Hey... that's an idea for a new business!!!!
Taking the virtual goods of facebook to the real world.