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ryanmerket
791karma·352submissions·May 31, 2008
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The friction of sharing and reacting to life milestones with all your friends and family is an order of magnitude easier on Facebook. For example, try teaching a grandparent or technology inept uncle …
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Long distant relationships. My family and close friends are mostly in Texas while I'm in the Bay Area. I like keeping track of their lives...
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Google, InMobi, iAds? It's a $2.6B dollar market that is growing 2x yoy. Don't overlook this market.
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By getting more global marketshare and by maximizing the ARPU for North American users (credits & payments). They can get more global marketshare by striking a deal with China (~500M internet user…
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"This will require them going from a niche advertiser to taking over a significant fraction of all worldwide ad revenue, this is no small feat." But it is small for Facebook. They already have the foo…
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Now take the 9 million sites with the Like button and throw in some extra Javascript for a 'Social Adsense' product. Now they have implicit and explicit data to target off of. There's your 10x growth …
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It's not that is hasn't "managed to monetize," they haven't even TRIED. Very big difference.
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50% of which are daily active users.
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How can you say the P/E isn't justified when Facebook isn't monetizing +60% of their impressions (mobile)?
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They already do this. http://allfacebook.com/promote-your-page-button_b89788
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Yeah I was referring to advertising purposes. Even if they did use keywords in statuses for advertising I would imagine the the weight of those keywords verses the weight of a liked object would be si…
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More importantly, they could build off the same Like button JS to drop a Social Adsense-like product on all those publisher sites.
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Facebook advertising isn't keyword driven, it's interest driven. AFAIK Facebook doesn't parse your status updates to find keywords -- they look at what you have Liked.
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Angel List is perfectly positioned to do just this.
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Eh, you said you were the first, period. A Facebook app tab is just an iframe so its not like they are doing anything special. So technically they were the first to use the "want" and "own" buttons.
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Actually, Payvment released "want" and "own" buttons back on 1/19/2012. http://www.payvment.com/blog/?p=1355
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A Facebook mobile ad network would be huge. Mobile publishers are already suffering with low eCPMs, so they are hungry for new solutions. Showing brands/banners is one thing, but showing mobile app ad…
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Check out this old school keygen tutorial I wrote: http://krobar.by.ru/krobar/other/key107.txt
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It's amazing what money can do. Sure they have some VC funding, but the power of A LOT of people investing in a product is immeasurable.