Disqus - Latest Comments for jamesgross

Re: Facebook Will Be Open

jamesgross — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 07:12:51 -0000

"Their models are only as similar as their dependence on their dev community for revenue."

Agreed. Andreessen interview is good. http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/10093

Re: Facebook Will Be Open

rafer — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 01:18:05 -0000

Swear all you like. You'll merely resemble the FB Platform developers who know how FB's openness works.

FB is an all-encompassing social network that is vertically integrating in order to shore up their revenue streams, which so far to have little or nothing to do with their developer community. Their dev community helped them build mass, was shown the door, and is now helping them build distribution (FB Connect). Once they have that distribution, we'll see how FB treats the dev community. I'm not hopeful.

Twitter is a rich messaging system with good APIs. They also vertically integrate a bit (e.g. Summize acq.), and cause their developers issues (XMPP policy changes). However, my guess is that Twitter's revenue will be based on their developer community, not merely using their developer community as a stepping stone.

Their models are only as similar as their dependence on their dev community for revenue.

Re: Facebook Will Be Open

jamesgross — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:35:18 -0000

I could have sworn you were just arguing that Facebook wasn't opening
up. And you didn't see the intersection of Twitter and FB's model.

#Phone

Re: What is Good for the Web

jamesgross — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:54:16 -0000

Delete.

#Phone

Re: YouTube Is A Global Media Property

jamesgross — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 21:29:02 -0000

Fred, Like this post and your post from yesterday. Extremely relevant for companies looking to create value online especially those primarily funded by the Ad/CPM world.

Kevin Kelly's Laws of Value apply here. From his Ted Presentation:
Copies Have no Value.
Value is in the Uncopyable.
Media wants to be liquid.
Network Effects Rule.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/kevin_kelly_...

Re: Developers

jamesgross — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 23:25:09 -0000

I like it. http://blog.mashery.com/2008/11/03/the-business...

Re: What is Good for the Web

jamesgross — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 09:54:37 -0000

I agree with you Pete. More and more, Google is portalizing their search results. In time, search will have to be open sourced and released under some sort of GPL. But that is not anytime soon, and it will be projects like the above that will allow Google to diversify their revenue streams in order to give up search as their main money maker.

Re: Value is in the uncopyable; Media wants to be liquid

miconian — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 19:11:59 -0000

The freezing temperature of media is only 65 degrees. My opinions on this subject are all in my ice tray, in cubes. I'm not saying they won't ever be served with drinks, but that's at my own discretion.

Which reminds me of those liquid textbooks in THX-1138.

Re: Value is in the uncopyable; Media wants to be liquid

jamesgross — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:43:01 -0000

But media wants to be liquid.

Re: CrowdFire, Social Ad Summit, MIXX, Laws of Social Distribution

jamesgross — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:48:24 -0000

@David, awesome and thanks for the quote. The column just came by my inbox. :)

@Katie I definitely want to see this tool and talk with you. In re to the commenting on the other post(argh!), Disqus might be more of a pain than it is worth. To your point on NY; I don't want to think about that right now.

Re: Open Data

jamesgross — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:48:07 -0000

the idea would be that you would have a certain amount of control over your data that you could do what you want with. I could even see the day when an ad comes with a little statement, "why you are seeing this ad" that when clicked could give you your activity stream for why that ad is being served to you.

Re: Media

jamesgross — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:04:11 -0000

Thanks Tanya. Always appreciate that type of feedback. :)

Re: Use the Cloud

jamesgross — Sun, 18 May 2008 20:14:43 -0000

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