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SiliconANGLE: Friendfeed-Facebook Acquisition: The Positive Side

  • famebook · 4 months ago
    Thrilled for Paul, but amused that FB's first big land grab is another biz that isn't properly monetized either! Arrogance, Ignorance or Clairvoyance?
  • Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins · 4 months ago
    come now! we don't need no steenking business models!
    Seriously though, Friendfeed is lightweight enough to be properly monetized
    into the black much better than Facebook.

    I think it makes more sense as an investment for Facebook to think of it as
    R&D costs, not a monetizable property.
  • famebook · 4 months ago
    Jury is still out on whether anyone can attract proper ad money to realtime user-generated environments of any sort. At the end of the day it's still just our daily graffiti and only just attracts cheap disposable ads which noone has realised yet only really deliver returns if they are tied to search! 80/20 rule...and all this stuff is within the 80%... imho
  • Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins · 4 months ago
    Jury may be out on mainstream services, but a couple of small realtime web
    apps I have (they function off of Twitter clicks) make about a $15 CPM off
    *engagement* based ads.
  • alpinefolk · 4 months ago
    Nice to read a positive article. I prefer Friendfeed over Facebook, but I think this may even bring better opportunities for Friendfeed to develop and test features. And if some of the features I have come to love in Friendfeed make it into Facebook... all the better experience for all (as Robert Scoble pointed out, another 300 million eople)