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hari — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 17:30:01 -0000

"But suddenly, over four months, the company has tapped a robust number of users, and it now expects to earn more than $10 million in revenue this year. " --- Ur traffic "suddenly" goes up with very little change in the website design..it sounds suspicious, maybe Riya hired click monkeys in some part of the world (india?) to click their shopping website so that they are a good acquisition target?

BTW where is the feature where you upload your pics and get a similar looking product? that would help getting traffic i guess.

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PixLover — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 06:05:11 -0000

Clearly like.com is a late entry to this space. A European company called PIXSTA way before implemented and invented visual search for products. (the days Riya was still searching for faces). Check it out www.pixsta.com - very cool technology, very cool concept, not cluttered at all, a very fast index search on images, just images search for images of similar kind... - much more google like.

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Ramon — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 08:57:05 -0000

I found the site to be confusing as well, not as good as it sounds. Great webdesign dough.

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Munjal Shah — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 05:17:14 -0000

The new version of Like.com is live now...

Try it out here http://www.like.com

You can also read about the backstory here

http://munjal.typepad.com/r...

Patricia yo words about designed wll for appealing to women is like music to my ears... see my backstory for details on why... ;-)

Munjal Shah - CEO Like.com

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patricia — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:04:13 -0000

Analytics are a watery thing. No one specific analytics solution on the market is really 100% accurate, traffic can and is bought and engineered, and there's a broad misconception of what constitutes good/valuable traffic. Not all sites are going to have Myspace level traffic but the market isn't really at a place where people realize it. And, you rarely hear people talk about session times and repeat visitors - there's a long way to go before the masses of the market understand all of it. I can say for fact the right people know about Like.com and for it being owned by a guy, it's surprisingly designed well for appealing to women. A lot of male-owned/women-targeted sites fail with that.

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Munjal Shah — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:42:50 -0000

Michael, Om, Matt - it is time for the Alexa for Revenue. It is time Web 2.0 grows up to be real businesses. I don't see why you guys can't ask a startup to show you their revenue numbers like I showed Matt and Michael (when he wrote about our Likesense product) before you guys write a positive article. Frankly just by asking for this you all will help drive a healthy shift toward profitability for all startups in this area. My full thoughts here

http://munjal.typepad.com/r...

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sk — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 00:59:03 -0000

Well Guys i have a different story to say. Munjal is a great story teller and this is how he earns sucks money from VC. Look at the history -
--> Raised $68 mil when he the CEO at andale. The company got sold at around $12M to Vendio.com. Think about the valuation here?
--> Raised $20 M + $3.3 M for like.com. Do any one think $ 23.3 M is needed to visual search company? This site is essentially an image makeover from which Munjal is trying to show it to ppl. He has enough bad name in India(Bangalore) for the dev center which he had here.

I want to sum up by saying Munjal is just making hype up the market. He is a big looser and he knows how to make his personal money from VC's.

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Tad Askew — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:47:05 -0000

This weekend on VentureBeatVentureMeat! Another storm in a teaspoon!

Marshall jumps the gun on Shah's hyperbole about one marginally relevant site in comparison with another.

Uberjournobloggers Ingram and Wilson respond with sanctimonious hand-wringing.

Is it traffic? Is it revenue? Eyeballs? Nutmeat?

Powerpoint at Eleven!

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Matt Marshall — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:31:03 -0000

Arthur, not sure what you're saying. The clickthroughs are based on what Munjal told me. I attributed it all to him. I'm not going to retract the story.

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Arthur Howe — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:57:06 -0000

So the clickthrough rates you quote are based on Munjal's "internal revenue numbers and traffic discussion"? I suggest you retract this story and pretend it never happened. At the very least, you should amend the top of the story to note that these numbers are based on Munjal's conjecture.

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Web ref — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:51:29 -0000

Munjal is a well-known huckster. I would take anything he tells you with a grain of salt. Most likely, this is part of his "please buy us" metrics-bending hype, since Google passed on Riya. Same shit, different package.

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Matt Marshall — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:25:59 -0000

Munjal is right. He showed me both his traffic and his internal revenue numbers, and the traffic discussion, which Fred focuses on, is less important overall than the revenue side. But even there, it is true I don't know what ThisNext's situation is, but I have called them, and am awaiting their response. Finally, Ted, regarding the $10 million, it comes from click-throughs it sends to merchants, at which point Like gets paid if a purchase actually goes through. Apologies for not making that clear.

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Munjal Shah — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:51:26 -0000

Matt,

With your update you are missing the point and going down the same path as Fred and Mathew. This is not about traffic - who cares if you are bigger in traffic. Web 2.0 companies need to be focused on revenue and ultimately profits. My comments are about that are here

http://munjal.typepad.com/r...

Also you wrote iLike.com in your update - should be Like.com

Munjal Shah CEO - Like.com

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Munjal Shah — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:10:39 -0000

All,

This article got posted a little ahead of our launch of the new site. What you are seeing right now is the old site. The new site should be up soon (next day or so).

Thanks
Munjal Shah
CEO - Like.com

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Devin Anderson — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:18:36 -0000

Does Amazon have anything like these features? If the site continues to grow I wonder if Amazon will start to do some of the same things or just buy one of these companies?

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Fishy — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 14:51:28 -0000

I don't know if I should believe those numbers. I smell something is fishy going on here. 90% clickthru rates?.. hmmmm...

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Sunil B — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:49:03 -0000

I re-tried this out and the both the items I wanted to look at were dead links on the actual sites. So they still have work to do. I quite like endless.com from amazon for a ui.

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Ted — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:25:17 -0000

On what basis do they plan to bring in $10m? Couldn't you have asked?

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Chris R — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 10:14:03 -0000

The site seems to cluttered and complicated. I don't know what is going on when I click.