Comments on: The dirt on Amazon, Steve Jobs, Topix, Fatdoor, MySpace, VC tax and more

By: KRIS

KRIS — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 14:22:50 +0000

I salute and I invite all informations

By: dumbfounder

dumbfounder — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 23:14:02 +0000

I can’t imagine that $900m deal was split up evenly year over year, so I am thinking that $271m is very good. Even at a measly (by MySpace standards) 10% growth per year, that will still put them in the $900m range in 3 years. Sounds to me like they could blow away that number though.

By: Matt Marshall

Matt Marshall — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:51:22 +0000

Jason, thanks. Updated.

By: Jason L. Baptiste

Jason L. Baptiste — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 13:31:12 +0000

Matt- the good artists copy, great artists steal quote was used constantly in the pirates of silicon valley movie. Jobs used it referring to the Xerox parc visit, and Gates later used it referring to their visit to Apple.

-JLB

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:41:13 +0000

Which Wall Street analyst has been doing the numbers? How does he / she know what Google’s revenue share is from Myspace?

Myspace might ‘only’ make $271m a year from ads, but are we to assume that Google splits ad revenue down the middle and also makes $271m from Myspace ads?

My experience (of running both Adwords and Adsense) is that Google earns a lot more than publishers when it comes to Adsense. Not that it ever discloses the percentage split…

I love these Wall Street analysts. Especially when they put out bearish statements about Google on concerns that it is doing things ‘outside of its core business’. By which they mean ‘Search’.

The fact is, Google’s core business is not search, despite perception among consumers. It is in fact ‘advertising’.

By: DSS

DSS — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 07:09:30 +0000

With respect to the Jobs video mention, I don’t see anything wrong in there. Stealing non-patented ideas is one thing, stealing content is quite another, right?