roberthd | Shared With: Everyone - 8 days ago | web, facebook, social
One thing about Facebook that most people still seem to have wrong: that it’s a walled garden. Quite the contrary, the Platform allows for full data portability and has since its inception. The problem is that this knowledge is buried deep within the FB documentation, a place few developers have wandered.
- roberthd | Shared With: Everyone - May 14 2008 | facebook, google, startups, social networking
Facebook is the one to bash these days. I'm skeptical that they'll loose their audience to GOOG's Friend Connect due to high switching costs. But they need to figure out how to monetize all this traffic soon though or else start looking for a YouTube style exit before buyers become convinced that social networks can't be monetized.
Quoted: Facebook generated only $145 million in revenue last year, according to eMarketer, much of it from an ad deal with Microsoft. MySpace, by contrast, had ...
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