With RFID updating facebook status and auto tagging of all the party photographs. This is really a brand’s dream! Now you know why you could have used more of Twitter..but the winner seems to be Facebook with the facebook pages becoming a cult. Our brand page here at http://tr.im/advantage
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Facebook finally made use of the choice of social competition in the internet economy today when they ‘closed’ the Friendfeed acquisition deal. After the recent spree of feature launches that made it more and more twitter, facebook cemented its early lead with the talented Friendfeed, which allows it to make conversations a staple and also be more social. Among its obvious synergies otherwise, Friendfeed is aesthetically traditional and fun at the same time while remaining business friendly in terms of logistical support for feeding these conversations ( as also noted earlier in F vs T series 14/800 )
Twitter in the meantime has spruced up its looks and while the old SEO types haggle a little about its value and dump hacker tricks on Facebook and Twitter, Twitter has managed to keep a high growth in user additions till July climbing to 14th in search engine rankings with almost 15% of Facebook’s page views. The jury might let Facebook a grand ovation at this stage for managing to snag Friendfeed but the flexibility of Twitter may still help it overcome its flood of revolutionaries and internet junk to get up and ahead in the race with some good business brands adopting and staying alive in Twitter.
On the other hand, Facebook today can definitely vouch that it has the social infrastructure and the fun and games which keep people busy on Facebook may still turn out to be of some lasting value with a $200 million+ revenue year about to close in the next 3 months. Facebook’s task of morphing is even tougher as it has to merge the good of friendfeed into it without getting into the internecine arguments it is getting used to with its users.
Facebook at 77 million visitors, Amazon 64 m, Craigslist at 47 m, WordPress at 26m and Twitter at 20m compared to Goog at 157m in June09
So $AMZN makes $1.75 bn per month from 64 million visitors
That is more than $27 from every single visitor! $AMZN
If Twitter made 10% of that they would have sales of $54million to start with ( based on June comscore)
China’s new loans may surge to a record 11 trillion renminbi ($1.6 trillion) this year as the government refrains from tightening lending rules to protect economic growth
Goldman /Blankfein paid a 23% return on the govt’s TARP investment, paying $1.1 billion for the warrants
Also Buffet sold a third of his stake in Moody’s
China’s state construction giant raised a $7.3 billion in IPO
(Green Shoots?) Both American Express (AXP) and Capitol One (COF) reported earnings that were quite weak (seekingalpha dot com)
$CIT looks in line to become smaller, selling its comml business and most likely losing its aviation lending and rail finance biz profitably
BTW, we continue to be short on both $AXP and $COF and bullish on the market ( same as before act. results came out @zyakaira
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I know what you all are thinking. Why suddenly a Kindle in Facebook vs Twitter wars? What about the Friendfeed and the dozen social networks to be branded me too! Where do they come in? Well, to me Kindle comes first because Amazon is a phenomenon on my personal list of Enterprise greats and the other start ups have still got something to prove in terms of viability. Not that the risk is any lesser for a Myspace or a Kindle but My space going down would be a turning point people would remember like AOL, eBay and the others who have had a not so easy time since they set up on the web and who have never graduated to the real Web 2.0 or near real time social collaboration. Amazon and Kindle however have that potential ( may be they will also drop out later like Starbucks) and they can handle innovation and complex consumer minds with a relative ease that would be critical.
Long back, during the days of Patricia Seybold’s customers.com and Guy Hagel’s ‘Net Worth’ we saw an expostulation of the success determining parameters of the new invisible continent by Kenichi Ohmae ( let’s face it, the guy was an other world icon but still made it as a strategist on the new web). What the Invisible Continent described in great detail was an Infomediary – An organization or ‘Trust agent’ that would broker all business transactions on the web because they would be entrusted with the Customers foibles and deep seated choices that would make the best buying decision and robust sales. Amazon and Kindle are the perfect intermediaries for such digital transactions like iPhone and iPod have been for music albeit non collaboratively till now.
I think the new web needs Kindle and amazon to ramp up the offering in tune with customers, learning the nuances along with the customer as they go along this adventure. For amazon to continue with its 50% market share of the World’s Book Sales has been relatively easy when compared with the others and a vital part of that has been the enriched customer experience which is really beautifully collaborative and store front’ish at the same time. It also highlights the other essential for social collaboration which Facebook and Twitter seem to make light of, ad that is the reading habit. For any transaction on the new web, one has to be a voracious reader to navigate the choices, discuss with friends, colleagues and competitors online and make instant decisions that are almost always right.
Kindle could easily include Video, Audio and twitter / friendfeed messaging on the device along with maps and the books to replace other devices you need to carry arund today for a complete mobile experience. I think that’s the way it’s going to go too.
Sitting inside a conference room at Twitter, BlackBerry in hand, Kevin Thau is all business.In his first interview since taking charge of the San Francisco technology companys mobile business development a month ago, Thau is confident that cellphones will play a crucial role in helping the messaging service make money.
The four-year-old company, which has raised more than $35 million from Benchmark Capital, Spark Capital and others, offers its service free of charge, and hasn’t yet figured out how to generate revenues.
Thau, 36, says thats about to change. He says the number of text messages passing through Twitters platform has grown 1,000% in the last year. Add to that the fact that users are texting more substantive observations and opinions in real time, and the company has a valuable information database it can sell to businesses.
Thau says Twitter is developing a range of analytics and metrics products and services built around the information contained in “tweets,” the e-mail and text messages that pass through its platform. “We can measure the tweets,” he says. “Were trying to figure out what are the appropriate metrics around engagement and how to convey those.”
Thau, however, didnt say when Twitter plans to sell these services or how much it will charge for them.
Its an interesting business model, but can Twitter survive selling analytics and other services? “When it comes to enterprises, absolutely,” says Jeremiah Owyang, a social computing analyst with Forrester Research ($FORR ) . “I just got off a call with a client thats asking about how to engage on Twitter. There’s definitely interest.”
via ‘Forbes’
Those who do attend will be debating the troubled state of traditional media companies and how they will fare in an increasingly digital environment.
“People in the traditional media world are terrified,” Ken Auletta, a New Yorker magazine media writer who will lead a panel on new media at this week’s conference, told Reuters.
“They’re in the analog world, and the world is becoming digital,” he said. “They’re insecure about what’s going to happen to their businesses.”
Young Web entrepreneurs have been adding new excitement to the Sun Valley conference, which has been the birthplace of some high-profile media deals. The founders of social networking sites like Facebook and Myspace and Internet video portals like YouTube and Joost drew large crowds in recent years.
This year, Evan Williams (above), the chief executive Twitter, will likely be in high demand as media moguls try to determine if the hugely popular microblogging service is a money-making opportunity or simply another Web 2.0 fad.
via Sun Valley Buzz: Tough Times and Twitter – DealBook Blog – NYTimes.com.
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