Comments on: Revenue search continues, as Facebook (and LinkedIn?) employee stock sale begins

By: edhardy622

edhardy622 — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 12:28:10 +0000

British law student sues Abercrombie-Fitch for disability discrimination.
http://www.abercrombieshop.us

By: mornagranger

mornagranger — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 23:03:04 +0000

I have my Facebook account because of laziness I never had a time to update this account. I dont have my own computer in our home and in the office I concentrate doing my task for the day.I dont want to have a small output

By: dDabby

dDabby — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:54:19 +0000

facebook hasnt gone public yet, so u and me cannot buy any stocks, except u have a couple of hundreds of millions left and u would like to buy a share of facebook.

By: John

John — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:52:20 +0000

Word up. People should realise that TOS's generally contain some things we might not like. Even now after all of the problems that have been going on with it I bet theres loads of chaps/chapettes that haven't read it but still bitch and moan.

I personally don't care whether or not it stays on or not. So what, people know your name. You wouldn't give something of value to someone you don't really know, so why do it on websites?

By: guest

guest — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 21:03:48 +0000

steals? i'm pretty sure all 120-160 million users volunteer their data in exchange for the free service…

as for refusal to delete it, it's in their TOS. if you don't agree with it, don't create an account, it's that simple

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By: Ian Hendry

Ian Hendry — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:06:43 +0000

But it's market share of a market spending no money on such services. How is that worth $14bn? Or even $1bn? I compare it to free sheet newspapers: you can't count their circulation as everyone who gets one put through their letterbox, as most get binned before being read. That's quite different to the circulation of a newspaper people have opened their wallet to buy.

There is no New Economy. There is just old economy rules with people who are dumb enough to think they don't apply. They were flushed out in the Dot Com collapse and with 18 months of recession ahead of us I am quite sure we will see history repeating itself if they don't beef up their business plans soon.

Ian Hendry
CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ
http://www.wecando.biz

By: Market Share

Market Share — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:00:48 +0000

Profits are not important to Facebook at the moment. Neither is revenue, really. This is about market share. That is why they are valued so high. To reap huge ad revenue would mean backlash from users, and that is the exact opposite goal of FB. As long as this company keeps growing and becoming the “online identity” of people all over the world, they will keep gaining value. Once they have established a monopoly on social networks, then they will unroll the real revenue models. Until then, they are only tip-toeing around in the advertising department because they want their free service to be as appealing as possible to new users.

By: michaeldowns

michaeldowns — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:53:48 +0000

You're right Ian. While FB page views are scaling, CPMs are falling. The net effect: disappointing ad revenues. Having said that, they're smart. I suspect they're looking for more revenue streams like gift referral that 1. Create value for users AND 2. Leverage FB's social nature.

What might that include:
1. Charging application developers for premium placement - Pay for traffic.
2. Providing volume discount programs for FB groups - I'd join a MacBook Pro buying group today.
3. Charging for value-added services that have few, if any, free substitutes - Their coming music program might be the best example. Match.com-like partnerships also come to mind.

More here: http://snurl.com/57gfq

By: Thinking

Thinking — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:02:38 +0000

Don't get your knickers in a bunch just yet. For a company that is supposedly valued at $14 billion U.S., bringing in $265 million of revenue is not exciting. That is revenue folks, not PROFIT. Big difference. There isn't even a mention of what kind of a profit, if any, that Facebook is turning. Remember that little old dotcom, boom and bust? Hugely overblown valuations and no real profits.

Myspace is listed as have around $1 billion in revenue this year, again, REVENUE. Not profit. But considering they are doing more with less, that's still better than Facebook. Facebook's profits would have to grow astronomically for the company to be worth the $14 billion valuation to be accurate.

Employ a bit of basic accounting and some common sense please.

By: erichansa

erichansa — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:02:49 +0000

Why couldn't this say Facebook is coming to an end. . . . along with Myspace. . . . I could practically hear the choirs of seraphim singing to my ears. . . . How about all these crappy medians of product placement go away.. . . along with their pseudo-intellectual trendy users. . . Sorry, that was kind of harsh, I know.

By: kenny

kenny — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:47:12 +0000

Must be nice. Glad to see someone not affected by the sour economy.

By: Ian Hendry

Ian Hendry — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:20:16 +0000

120 million users and only $180 million of ad revenue is the strongest evidence I have yet seen that advertising is NOT a valid way of support social networks. By contrast, business focused network XING in germany reported record profits this week on only 6 million users, although that was 53% up over the year and half a million pay. Perhaps Facebook needs to start thinking what it could charge its users for.

Ian Hendry
CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ
http://www.wecando.biz

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Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:18:20 +0000

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By: Facebookdie

Facebookdie — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:13:34 +0000

Facebook steals personal data. And refuse to delete it.