Comments on: Why Facebook Needs Big Money http://gigaom.com/2007/09/27/why-facebook-needs-big-money/ Wed, 22 May 2013 02:49:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Robin http://gigaom.com/2007/09/27/why-facebook-needs-big-money/#comment-181302 Sat, 04 Apr 2009 01:15:33 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/27/why-facebook-needs-big-money/#comment-181302 I really wish I could use something like Facebook to connect with colleagues. However, I live in tremendous fear that an employer can and will use anything I say against me. That whole Cisco Fatty incident is unnerving.

Unless I am a total free agent who gives up any thoughts of ever working for a corporation again, I’m not convinced of putting my name out there. Having my name erroneously tied to an online sexual harassment incident makes me even more worried. Maybe I’m missing out on a lot by not personal branding myself on Facebook and beyond, but I’m still not convinced it’s for me. This is really sad because I grew up and love technology which I always hope would make us more face-to-face with a name like Facebook.

]]> By: Sinela Gherman http://gigaom.com/2007/09/27/why-facebook-needs-big-money/#comment-181301 Sat, 10 May 2008 14:10:18 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/27/why-facebook-needs-big-money/#comment-181301 I think that the great Facebook social network, like any other business, needs more money to consolidate existing platforms and to create new ones to face the global fast industry growth.

]]> By: Facebook Settles With NY AG: Smart Move « GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2007/09/27/why-facebook-needs-big-money/#comment-181300 Tue, 16 Oct 2007 19:40:45 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/27/why-facebook-needs-big-money/#comment-181300 [...] by Om Malik Tuesday, October 16, 2007 at 12:35 PM PT | No comments Instead of facing the wrath of the New York Attorney General and testing the legal system, Facebook has decided to settle a [...]

]]> By: Cal é o futuro das aplicacións web? :: bandua net :: dominios, hosting, web CMS e xestión de contidos http://gigaom.com/2007/09/27/why-facebook-needs-big-money/#comment-181299 Mon, 08 Oct 2007 08:05:06 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/27/why-facebook-needs-big-money/#comment-181299 [...] E ao falar do futuro Arington é optimista falando de que o reto será con respecto ao IPO da empresa. Malik é o pesimista falando que os retos terán que ver con temas legais. [...]

]]> By: ¿Cuál es el futuro de las aplicaciones web? | Ricotero's Blog http://gigaom.com/2007/09/27/why-facebook-needs-big-money/#comment-181298 Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:26:04 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/27/why-facebook-needs-big-money/#comment-181298 [...] Y al hablar del futuro Arington es optimista hablando de que los retos será con respecto al IPO de la empresa. Malik es el pesimista hablando que los retos tendrán que ver con temas legales. [...]

]]> By: ¿Cuál es el futuro de las aplicaciones web? http://gigaom.com/2007/09/27/why-facebook-needs-big-money/#comment-181297 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 11:24:57 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/27/why-facebook-needs-big-money/#comment-181297 [...] Y al hablar del futuro Arington es optimista hablando de que los retos será con respecto al IPO de la empresa. Malik es el pesimista hablando que los retos tendrán que ver con temas legales. [...]

]]> By: Shakir razak http://gigaom.com/2007/09/27/why-facebook-needs-big-money/#comment-181296 Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:30:31 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/27/why-facebook-needs-big-money/#comment-181296 Hi Om,

Not a Facebook user, but what the hell are minors doing on it anyway.

Don’t they have neopets and club penguin, et al to go to.

And couldn’t a simple disclaimer on random visit or registration, etc. confirming the user is an adult or blocked/breaking the ToS be enough to absolve Facebook’s responsibility?

Yours kindly,

Shakir Razak

]]> By: Martina http://gigaom.com/2007/09/27/why-facebook-needs-big-money/#comment-181295 Mon, 01 Oct 2007 09:52:06 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/27/why-facebook-needs-big-money/#comment-181295 great story about facebooks!

best regards

]]> By: snowqueen http://gigaom.com/2007/09/27/why-facebook-needs-big-money/#comment-181294 Sun, 30 Sep 2007 21:31:17 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/27/why-facebook-needs-big-money/#comment-181294 I think those of you who think Facebook is safe overestimate the level of understanding of many users. A whole bunch of my young female students use Facebook and were amazed to discover that I could see their profiles just because I am in the same network. They certainly hadn’t worked out that they could set their own privacy settings. And as someone else said, there are phone numbers, addresses etc. on people’s profiles. I wonder why the ‘friends only’ setting isn’t the default on Facebook. That way the complacent or the net-unaware might be a little safer.

]]> By: jonathan frate http://gigaom.com/2007/09/27/why-facebook-needs-big-money/#comment-181293 Sun, 30 Sep 2007 04:40:19 +0000 http://gigaom.com/2007/09/27/why-facebook-needs-big-money/#comment-181293 I’m doing the math in my head, and I think fb needs the money for operations.

The deal with microsoft guarantees them 150 mil in revenue but has anybody actually tried to advertise on fb lately?

Its pretty bad conversions! An order of magnitude lower than through google. So who knows what ratchets msft has on fb for their deal, but I doubt the 150 mil rev number just when I look at the advertisers on fb! They’re almost all junky grad finder ads, how can that pay the bills? For what its worth people I’ve talked to have said fb is doing 5-7 mil/month in revenue.

On the operations side: 250 people, that’s 25mil in the valley. Hardware, software, pr, add in another 10-15mil, or 40′ish mil a year to run it.

Newsflash: maybe they need the cash to grow their business… Just like everyone else.

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