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Re: Fred Wilson: Apple is evil and Facebook is just a photo-sharing site

Kim-Mai Cutler — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 17:03:01 -0000

Made a note up near the top of story about what you said in the comments.

Re: Fred Wilson: Apple is evil and Facebook is just a photo-sharing site

Kim-Mai Cutler — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:44:01 -0000

Oh thanks for your comments. I hope it seems self-evident that it's kind of playful. If it doesn't, I'll put your comments here up higher.

Re: Russian president makes his inaugural tweet from Twitter headquarters

Kim-Mai Cutler — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 10:10:54 -0000

I was pulling the Moldova context from this NYTimes piece last year: http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
Really? How do you know it was secret police?

And yes, I'm aware that a lot of Twitter + Iran last year was effectively social media rubbernecking.

Re: Could adding a LinkedIn connection land you in legal hot water?

Kim-Mai Cutler — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:55:24 -0000

How is it misleading? It's talking about violating non-compete agreements via social networking usage in the first sentence.

Re: Facebook lets users “like” comments now

Kim-Mai Cutler — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:51:16 -0000

Even more meta.

Re: iPad security breach puts data of 114,000 users in Gawker’s hands

Kim-Mai Cutler — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 20:46:21 -0000

Hi there, the title has been tweaked a bit. If you have an idea for a business model that better balances short, re-aggregated content like this and long-form, original stories, please share it.

Re: Advertisers flocking to Facebook quadruple from last year

Kim-Mai Cutler — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:44:22 -0000

490 million unique users is actually from Google's estimates of Facebook's traffic.

Re: How Facebook says the privacy changes came about internally

Kim-Mai Cutler — Thu, 27 May 2010 12:42:05 -0000

Clarifying: They said advertising is their core business model, but that advertising revenue never figured into the privacy changes launched yesterday.

They definitely want people to share more. There's nothing necessarily malicious about it; it just makes their service more valuable to users and for ad targeting. The question I think you need to ask is what "over-sharing" is and when it is detrimental personally and at a societal level. And are there ways of designing around those pitfalls so that people share what will create the most value for them in their lives and avoid sharing stuff that could harm them?

Re: Twitter cuts third-party ads out of user timelines

Kim-Mai Cutler — Mon, 24 May 2010 21:04:16 -0000

That is definitely a concern.

Re: Twitter cuts third-party ads out of user timelines

Kim-Mai Cutler — Mon, 24 May 2010 21:03:47 -0000

Yes you can. That's your personal choice to send that tweet. Twitter is concerned about third-party apps that automatically send ads into the timeline.

Re: The spring marks deep turnover for Google Android, mobile teams

Kim-Mai Cutler — Mon, 17 May 2010 11:10:21 -0000

There's a paragraph at the bottom saying that this doesn't mean doom for Android if you didn't read the whole thing. Turnover is normal, but we were just hearing from multiple employees that this is the year that many people will leave.

Re: Mark, be honest. Just explain your views on the future of privacy.

Kim-Mai Cutler — Thu, 13 May 2010 18:56:37 -0000

I'd love to see a privacy symposium like that!

Re: Can a “Head of Social” help Google fend off Facebook?

Kim-Mai Cutler — Wed, 12 May 2010 17:29:52 -0000

It's called Picasa.

Re: Facebook’s Paul Buchheit justifies increasing openness, less privacy

Kim-Mai Cutler — Wed, 05 May 2010 00:54:00 -0000

Hi, it was a quick summary of his main points from an interview on-stage at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.

Re: Mint founder Aaron Patzer makes a slight jab at Blippy

Kim-Mai Cutler — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:50:49 -0000

It's a joke. Maybe that didn't come across. :(

Re: I didn’t spend my money on Apple stock, and all I got was this lousy PowerBook.

Kim-Mai Cutler — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:38:51 -0000

There are lots of assumptions you make when you compare only two different ways putting your capital to work, and intentionally exclude the opportunity cost of other choices.

The chart just exists to point out how immensely valuable the company has become over the past 14 years with Jobs at the helm. Good essay on this idea: http://cdixon.org/2009/10/1...

Re: Here come the mash-ups: Likebutton.me shows what Facebook friends are ‘liking’ across the web

Kim-Mai Cutler — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:57:31 -0000

Why do you think that? Liking is a very low-cost action and may seem superficial on the outside. But in aggregate -- through the behavior of millions and millions of people -- Facebook can understand people's relationships to content and can start to index the socially meaningful parts of the web.

Re: And Groupon makes three. What’s Russian firm DST’s secret sauce?

Kim-Mai Cutler — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:57:58 -0000

Can't say on a specific deal. But the preferences are weaker compared to similar deals for investors coming in at the C or D round.

Re: More open than thou: Blogger battle rages over new Facebook tools

Kim-Mai Cutler — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:51:58 -0000

What do you mean by the 'everyone else is doing it' part?

The bigger point has to do with how tech companies claim they value openness when there are glaring exceptions because they're for-profit entities. Always entertaining to watch them justify those exceptions.

Most people understand the very real business rationale for keeping the search and advertising algorithms private. It's just that the company says that it's very open (through Android and Chrome) when that's not entirely true. See Jonathan Rosenberg's essay from earlier this year: http://googleblog.blogspot....
And criticism of it: http://techcrunch.com/2009/...

It's similar in Facebook's case. Metadata IS very different, and other developers can do what they will with it. But Facebook has an airtight grip on people's identities and their histories and it isn't being open with that for very real business reasons too. That data in concert with what they will be able to do through the Open Graph metadata will be incredibly powerful. All other developers will just have one piece of the puzzle; Facebook will have both. I guess you could say that a lot of people are both in awe and somewhat anxious about Facebook's audacity in telling the web how to semantically organize itself while touting openness.

Re: More open than thou: Blogger battle rages over new Facebook tools

Kim-Mai Cutler — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 11:22:37 -0000

We have alerts about the spam, but I have to go through and manually delete them. It's kind of a pain.

Re: And Groupon makes three. What’s Russian firm DST’s secret sauce?

Kim-Mai Cutler — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 18:21:27 -0000

Yes, that's completely true. I put the most obvious point at the end. But there are other terms on their deals that are interesting.

Re: And Groupon makes three. What’s Russian firm DST’s secret sauce?

Kim-Mai Cutler — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:54:45 -0000

That said, in the whole world of alternative investments, a few hundred million dollars or even a billion dollars isn't all that much.

Re: And Groupon makes three. What’s Russian firm DST’s secret sauce?

Kim-Mai Cutler — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:43:04 -0000

That's hopefully for the next post. Thanks for bringing up the questions.

Re: Facebook’s new automatic data-sharing program attracts a grand total of 131 comments

Kim-Mai Cutler — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 17:30:32 -0000

Too late, by then the privacy policy will already be passed. Facebook will probably choose partners very, very wisely though. The company has a visceral memory of being dead wrong with their Beacon launch partners back in 2006.

Re: Facebook says new program to automatically share data ‘has nothing to do’ with ads

Kim-Mai Cutler — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:51:41 -0000

Hi to both of you. :)

If you're unhappy with the changes, Facebook is inviting people to make comments here: http://www.facebook.com/not...

A grand total of 120 people have commented.