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Re: Revenue search continues, as Facebook (and LinkedIn) employee stock sale begins

Guest — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:28:10 -0000

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Re: Revenue search continues, as Facebook (and LinkedIn) employee stock sale begins

mornagranger — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:03:04 -0000

I have my Facebook account because of laziness I never had a time to update this account. I dont have my own computer in our home and in the office I concentrate doing my task for the day.I dont want to have a small output

Re: Revenue search continues, as Facebook (and LinkedIn) employee stock sale begins

dDabby — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:54:19 -0000

facebook hasnt gone public yet, so u and me cannot buy any stocks, except u have a couple of hundreds of millions left and u would like to buy a share of facebook.

Re: Revenue search continues, as Facebook (and LinkedIn) employee stock sale begins

John — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:52:20 -0000

Word up. People should realise that TOS's generally contain some things we might not like. Even now after all of the problems that have been going on with it I bet theres loads of chaps/chapettes that haven't read it but still bitch and moan.

I personally don't care whether or not it stays on or not. So what, people know your name. You wouldn't give something of value to someone you don't really know, so why do it on websites?

Re: Revenue search continues, as Facebook (and LinkedIn) employee stock sale begins

guest — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:03:48 -0000

steals? i'm pretty sure all 120-160 million users volunteer their data in exchange for the free service...

as for refusal to delete it, it's in their TOS. if you don't agree with it, don't create an account, it's that simple

Re: Revenue search continues, as Facebook (and LinkedIn) employee stock sale begins

Ian Hendry — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 03:06:43 -0000

But it's market share of a market spending no money on such services. How is that worth $14bn? Or even $1bn? I compare it to free sheet newspapers: you can't count their circulation as everyone who gets one put through their letterbox, as most get binned before being read. That's quite different to the circulation of a newspaper people have opened their wallet to buy.

There is no New Economy. There is just old economy rules with people who are dumb enough to think they don't apply. They were flushed out in the Dot Com collapse and with 18 months of recession ahead of us I am quite sure we will see history repeating itself if they don't beef up their business plans soon.

Ian Hendry
CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ
http://www.wecando.biz

Re: Revenue search continues, as Facebook (and LinkedIn) employee stock sale begins

Market Share — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:00:48 -0000

Profits are not important to Facebook at the moment. Neither is revenue, really. This is about market share. That is why they are valued so high. To reap huge ad revenue would mean backlash from users, and that is the exact opposite goal of FB. As long as this company keeps growing and becoming the "online identity" of people all over the world, they will keep gaining value. Once they have established a monopoly on social networks, then they will unroll the real revenue models. Until then, they are only tip-toeing around in the advertising department because they want their free service to be as appealing as possible to new users.

Re: Revenue search continues, as Facebook (and LinkedIn) employee stock sale begins

michaeldowns — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:53:48 -0000

You're right Ian. While FB page views are scaling, CPMs are falling. The net effect: disappointing ad revenues. Having said that, they're smart. I suspect they're looking for more revenue streams like gift referral that 1. Create value for users AND 2. Leverage FB's social nature.

What might that include:
1. Charging application developers for premium placement - Pay for traffic.
2. Providing volume discount programs for FB groups - I'd join a MacBook Pro buying group today.
3. Charging for value-added services that have few, if any, free substitutes - Their coming music program might be the best example. Match.com-like partnerships also come to mind.

More here: http://snurl.com/57gfq

Re: Revenue search continues, as Facebook (and LinkedIn) employee stock sale begins

Thinking — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:02:38 -0000

Don't get your knickers in a bunch just yet. For a company that is supposedly valued at $14 billion U.S., bringing in $265 million of revenue is not exciting. That is revenue folks, not PROFIT. Big difference. There isn't even a mention of what kind of a profit, if any, that Facebook is turning. Remember that little old dotcom, boom and bust? Hugely overblown valuations and no real profits.

Myspace is listed as have around $1 billion in revenue this year, again, REVENUE. Not profit. But considering they are doing more with less, that's still better than Facebook. Facebook's profits would have to grow astronomically for the company to be worth the $14 billion valuation to be accurate.

Employ a bit of basic accounting and some common sense please.

Re: Revenue search continues, as Facebook (and LinkedIn) employee stock sale begins

erichansa — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:02:49 -0000

Why couldn't this say Facebook is coming to an end. . . . along with Myspace. . . . I could practically hear the choirs of seraphim singing to my ears. . . . How about all these crappy medians of product placement go away.. . . along with their pseudo-intellectual trendy users. . . Sorry, that was kind of harsh, I know.

Re: Revenue search continues, as Facebook (and LinkedIn) employee stock sale begins

kenny — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:47:12 -0000

Must be nice. Glad to see someone not affected by the sour economy.

Re: Revenue search continues, as Facebook (and LinkedIn) employee stock sale begins

Ian Hendry — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:20:16 -0000

120 million users and only $180 million of ad revenue is the strongest evidence I have yet seen that advertising is NOT a valid way of support social networks. By contrast, business focused network XING in germany reported record profits this week on only 6 million users, although that was 53% up over the year and half a million pay. Perhaps Facebook needs to start thinking what it could charge its users for.

Ian Hendry
CEO, WeCanDo.BIZ
http://www.wecando.biz

Re: Revenue search continues, as Facebook (and LinkedIn) employee stock sale begins

Facebookdie — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:13:34 -0000

Facebook steals personal data. And refuse to delete it.

Re: Revenue search continues, as Facebook (and LinkedIn) employee stock sale begins

horse racing — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:11:00 -0000

Re: Revenue search continues, as Facebook (and LinkedIn) employee stock sale begins

Greg — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:03:23 -0000

@william, facebook do you not owe you anything, they don't owe you because you use their free service. They are a company and they are entitled to make money in return for providing their service.

Re: Revenue search continues, as Facebook (and LinkedIn) employee stock sale begins

Dan — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:14:38 -0000

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The current financial crisis may lead to enough disruption to induce an innovation economy. Money will be backed by future productivity based on innovation. Today, money is backed by future productivity based of supporting debt. This will be the domain of social networks.

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Enjoy

Re: Revenue search continues, as Facebook (and LinkedIn) employee stock sale begins

Jess Beaner — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:07:31 -0000

Must be nice. Glad to see someone not affected by the sour economy.

jess
http://web-anonymity.vze.com

Re: Revenue search continues, as Facebook (and LinkedIn) employee stock sale begins

DoubleStaxx — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:53:23 -0000

Im gonna buy some stock on the IPO wait until it burns up the charts then sell it back for a little profit. People who have no idea will think its the next google but in reality its just going to be another Crash and Burn Enron scenario.

Re: Revenue search continues, as Facebook (and LinkedIn) employee stock sale begins

Gordon — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:04:44 -0000

Couple this story with the Playlist one from yesterday and you have some interesting questions. Facebook and Playlist are both facing the same issue. That is, massive growth >> ?? >> massive revenues. So bringing in somebody who's wrestled with it at Facebook makes some sense, but we're still waiting to see what answers emerge.

Re: Revenue search continues, as Facebook (and LinkedIn) employee stock sale begins

william — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:01:44 -0000

Facebook is the grinch that stole christmas

What about stock option for members/content creators that have given Facebook their Value ?

Maybe in these hard financial times Facebook should be thinking about how it can help its members and users; save, time, money, and maybe even generate revenue.

I think that this is only fair since Facebook has generated a 15 Billion dollar valuations on the back of members content and actions.

At adelph.us we think its time to turn the web 2.0 share cropper model on its head.

Demand something in exchange for your content. It has value.

At adelph.us we put the community first and bring the main street web into reality.

Re: Revenue search continues, as Facebook (and LinkedIn) employee stock sale begins

free bet — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:36:47 -0000

its amazing how everyone is trying to make a profit in these times of crisis...

Re: Revenue search continues, as Facebook (and LinkedIn) employee stock sale begins

JohnJohn — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 20:43:05 -0000

Where do you go to buy this stocks?