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I think this graph by technology review says it all: http://www.technologyreview.com/graphiti/427964/is-facebook-worth-it/ http://www.technologyreview.com/grap

by adastra 14y ago

I think this graph by technology review says it all: http://www.technologyreview.com/graphiti/427964/is-facebook-worth-it/ http://www.technologyreview.com/graphiti/427964/is-facebook-... Looking at the value per user (shown as circle size), it's easy to see the huge difference between late 90's companies and the companies of today. Google and Facebook stand out, of course. Notice any outliers? There's at least one company that seems to be over-hyped... (Hint: it begins with Q, and ends in "uora".)

suweekly 14y ago
qwiki, turntable.fm, color, quora
forensic 14y ago
why does that show that Quora is overhyped? your contention is just that the value per user could not possibly be as high as facebook/google etc? Quora has pretty rich content and while they'll never have a userbase like facebook i don't see why the value per user number is wrong
- adastra 14y ago
  My contention is that the average value per user of Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, Pinterest, Instagram, Yelp, and Youtube is $56. You take the average of those and you're probably looking at a pretty decent ballpark for the value per user of a website that depends on user-generated content and that people use every single day. At $145 per user, Quora is almost THREE TIMES that average. If that's not an over-hyped valuation then I don't know what is.