I live in NYC. I work for Vimeo. I like to cook. My wife likes sprinkles. I have a new(ish) daughter. Her name is Chloe. We don't know if she likes sprinkles yet.
Facebook introduces Giraffe Search.
I would start using Facebook again if they had Giraffe Search.
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Facebook stock is under $20 as of August 2nd, 2012 and still no one hears that bubble popping.
Gosh all those folks who recently joined must be way under water. Not going to do much for retention.
Independence Day in the Digital Age
Just Visiting Zuckerberg… in a galaxy far, far away
I am going to enjoy this.
More!
Besides the hype, besides the technical fuckups of NASDAQ, besides the overvaluation and offering too many shares during their IPO, I think the reason Facebook’s stock is failing as much as it is right now is that people have come to realize that Everybody’s Favorite Social Network is just too obnoxious, intrusive, and data-scrapingly assholish in the way it treats everyone from its most ardent users to, sadly, people on third-party platforms like, I dunno, TUMBLR, that perhaps want nothing at all to do with the privacy black hole that is Mark Zuckerberg’s dickishness incarnate but wake up and log on to find THIS UTTER BULLSHIT.
I go on Tumblr to be on Tumblr, Tumblr. Please leave the shitty Facebook tactics to Facebook.
Cosigned.
Yes.
The Great Tech War Of 2012
Apple, Facebook, Google, and Amazon battle for the future of the innovation economy.
(via fastcompany)
It’s not just that Microsoft is losing money online, it’s that they’re bleeding it. And it’s getting worse, not better. The company has lost $9 billion online since they started breaking out the numbers in 2007 — $2.5 billion of that was in the past year.
And Bing has accounted for $5.5 billion of the total loses.
And what is Microsoft spending all that money on? Stealing market share from Yahoo, not Google. Yahoo is their search partner. Google is their enemy.
So what is Microsoft’s plan to make money on Bing? Essentially: get more people to use it.
Why didn’t anyone else think of that?
Microsoft’s real problem here is that in order to beat Google in search, they can’t just be better — they have to be exponentially better to get people to switch. And I’m just not sure that’s possible.
Microsoft is fighting a battle they’ve already lost simply by not taking it seriously earlier.
Billions in loses later, Microsoft may be starting to understand this. They have to compete with Google by not competing with them. They have to do something totally different and something Google can’t possibly copy.
Only one possibility comes to mind: Facebook.
They’ve been doing stuff with Facebook already thanks to their small investment in the social network. But they need to completely blow it out. Facebook search sucks. But it won’t suck forever. Eventually, they’ll do it themselves. And they’ll do it in a way that will compete with Google by being completely different. It will not be Bing.
Microsoft needs to hurry.
