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With a big enough user-base, they'll find a way. Occasional contextual adverts added to your timeline seems the obvious start.
by babul 18y ago
With a big enough user-base, they'll find a way. Occasional contextual adverts added to your timeline seems the obvious start.
- run4yourlives 18y agothey'll find a way That wouldn't exactly be comforting if it was my money on the table.
- tom_rath 18y agoBah! This is The New Economy. You just don't "Get It".
- bendemott 18y agoI love it!
- run4yourlives 18y agoFunny, I think I've heard that one before.
- acgourley 18y agoI'm very interested to see this play out. Pop wisdom says with enough eyes and with low enough operating costs there will be some way to make it as a company. But there has to be an inflection point somewhere. Look at youtube, they will never be in the black (taken on their own). So either they turn a profit, and this piece of wisdom is strongly reinforced. Or they go under, and entrepreneurs and VCs lose a certain glint in their eye. Or they get bought... and probably no one's mind is changed.
- kirse 18y agobig enough user base Just like Facebook, right!?
- shawndrost 18y agoFacebook makes hundreds of millions annually. They could have been very profitable years ago (but chose instead to try for an even bigger hit). I don't know why people on this site keep talking about Facebook like it's a failed business.
- run4yourlives 18y agoBecause moneycomingin > moneygoingout or you die. It doesn't matter how big either of those numbers are, as long as the equations stand. Most argue that the equation in facebook's case fails.
- mattmaroon 18y agoEveryone says this, and meanwhile we're watching companies with huge user bases flounder around helplessly without finding a way. I think it's time we stop taking that for the gospel and admit that it's actually quite possible for a company to get a huge user base and still fail to make money permanently.
- thwarted 18y agoThis explains why they turned off IM access. No need to view the web pages, and no ad views, via IM. And people will respond better to ads on web pages than ads via IM.