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Re: Friendfeed-Facebook Acquisition: The Positive Side

Alistair Bull — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:52:17 -0000

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)

Re: Friendfeed-Facebook Acquisition: The Positive Side

Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:29:26 -0000

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.

Re: Friendfeed-Facebook Acquisition: The Positive Side

Jan — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:25:07 -0000

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

Re: Friendfeed-Facebook Acquisition: The Positive Side

Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:13:08 -0000

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.

Re: Friendfeed-Facebook Acquisition: The Positive Side

Jan — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 18:05:53 -0000

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?