Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
I guess Facebook really is just for college kids to poke themselves on. Oh well. [From Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger » Blog Archive Facebook continues to suck «] Yeah, pretty much. I don’t know anyone doing “serious stuff” on Facebook, and vampires and food fights are so last year. This is a real problem [...]
Ads work on Google because people are looking for information. They do a search, and if the advertisement shows information that helps with the query, that makes everyone happy. However, when it comes to a social network, usage is quite different. People aren’t looking for information about products — they’re looking to communicate with friends. [...]
VideoEgg has announced that its ad network for Facebook applications – eggnetwork – has pulled in around $1.5 million in ad revenue over the past five months. [From How Much Money Are Facebook Apps Making? Not Much Apparently] This doesn’t surprise me at all. My almost year long affair with Facebook has enlightened me to [...]
Only if you take Facebooks recent fundraising that valued that company at $15 billion at face value (no pun intended). The FB transaction valued each of the company’s 59 million users at $254, which when applied to Plaxo’s reported 15 million users nets the $3.8 billion valuation. So what is interesting about Plaxo reportedly hoping [...]