Has anyone else read Amy Shuen's Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide and her discussion about Facebook and the the monetization of user generated value streams on social networks? For those interested - it does provide a good understanding about exactly why MS payed what they did for Facebook.
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 6:34 AM, Jared Spool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sep 23, 2008, at 10:09 PM, Kontra wrote: > > With what they know today, do you really think eBay would make the same >>> investment again? >>> >>> >> So now all M&A has to be done under 20/20 vision? Some business decisions >> go >> south. Imagine that! >> > > Ok. So where is Facebook going? Is it purely a flip deal where Zuckerberg, > et. al. are hoping that the inevitable M&A acquirer doesn't do decent > diligence? Or is there some semblance of a value statement they can talk to? > > Jared > > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > -- ~ will "Where you innovate, how you innovate, and what you innovate are design problems" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Will Evans | User Experience Architect tel: +1.617.281.128 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] aim: semanticwill | gtalk: wkevans4 twitter: semanticwill | skype: semanticwill --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
