On Sep 22, 2008, at 5:34 AM, David Malouf wrote:
But Jared, those are businesses that have ADDED social networking (especially the Amazon case) as a means of adding value to their core commerce business.
I don't know what "added" means. eBay, from day 1, had their community and reputation management system. Amazon, from day 1, had their reviews and ratings. Both of these are core social networking features, albeit different than the Can-I-Facebook-You? pickup-line approach.
So, your complaint about my bringing up eBay and Amazon is that they started with a viable business model instead of praying one appears to them in a burning bush before the investor money runs out? I guess I'm just lacking the faith that FB's mgmt has.
But to be honest, as an end user, if FB can last 10 years w/o a viable business model. I could care less. In 10 years something else will get my attention and so long as I can keep using FB the way I have for free, it serves my needs quite well.
So, is that it? FB is just a decade-long experiment to disprove the Dunbar number theory? Once it's outlived its usefulness, we just let it plummet back into the atmosphere and burn?
I wonder if anyone has let the investors in on the nature of this experiment.
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