On Jul 9, 2009, at 3:42 PM, Doyle Saylor wrote:
Doug,
You've got to be kidding. Facebook status updates consist mostly of
inane reports of daily life ("I need coffee!" "I just steamed some
sugar snap peas." - actual quotes from my FB friends), or reposts of
material produced by professional journalists. The amount of amateur
or "community" information production approaches zero.
Doyle;
So you down grade that as trivial. So trivial is not worth anything
to you. Community content is actually very important to people,
That's very nice, but I'd really like to know what's going on in Iraq
and the securities markets. Can Facebook help me out? Or are you just
interested in some therapeutic model of media, where making people
feel good is important?
but the ability to use it on a more complex scale with pictures and
sound is new enough that we don't know yet how that will move
things. Still providing the service is profitable for Facebook.
Facebook? Profitable? In what universe?
I see that Murdock has failed with Myspace because of corporate
miss calculations.
Murdoch said 10 years ago that the Internet will destroy more
businesses than it creates, so I'm not sure what his miscalculation
was. Buying MySpace was a plunge for him, and it hasn't worked out. I
doubt he's terribly surprised. As one of his associates said of
YouTube - on which Google is losing piles - the problem is that much
of the content stinks and has no scarcity value.
Doyle;
The problem with Pen-L is the medium does not promote depth and
substance. Why single me out for lack of substance?
Because it's so easy?
Doug
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