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by crowcroft 3y ago
Ultimately the board shouldn’t have signed off on the big Microsoft deals etc in the first place, or taken action sooner…
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by crowcroft 3y ago
Assuming this is true the impact of this very defensive brand position is that being defensive and risk averse IS the brand. In the long run your actions speak louder than words. I do think it's a bit ridiculous (although quite possibl
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by crowcroft 3y ago
I think about this quite a bit. If the WFH evangelists are right in saying that it is absolutely better to enable WFH then surely we will see those companies pull away from their peer group at some point. My sense is that companies are high
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by crowcroft 3y ago
Appreciate this perspective, Google certainly doesn't seem to get enough credit for it's wins. Ultimately I think this is because of the inability to take those successes and convert them into a number in their financials that inv
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by crowcroft 3y ago
Yea this is the point, all roads lead back to the lack of innovation at Google. They have capital, they have free cash flow, they can attract talent, but often they completely fail to compete effectively in new categories they enter.
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by crowcroft 3y ago
This is the point right? I do think it's fair to say that resources/$$$s aren't the thing holding back something like the Pixel Phone from being the number one smart phone, but at the end of the day it just isn't still.
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by crowcroft 3y ago
Between this and the payments to Apple, I wonder where Google would be if they invested another $30b into competing more aggressively... I guess these payments make sense if you believe you can't effectively deliver something good with
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by crowcroft 3y ago
Hard to think of any other ad sales company that has been able to double their prices every year for five years while offering the same thing. TV networks didn’t, even in their prime. I wonder if that’s because there was more than one of th
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by crowcroft 3y ago
I see, so the 'correct' path would likely be something like: Incorporate in the US -> apply for an E-2 (appreciate this is a gross simplification).
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by crowcroft 3y ago
This is super interesting Feels like a lot of people just travel the US and work remote a bit with the expectation that they will just slip the cracks. Thanks!
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by crowcroft 3y ago
For people running a small business that is remote/can be done anywhere (a small SaaS company for example). What are their options for operating in the US? To give a specific example. An indiehacker runs their own business, and wants t
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by crowcroft 3y ago
Yes, agreed. I'm kinda conflating the two things. This issue isn't so much 'adoption' of something like core web vitals, but just the fact that doing well on these standards impact ranking (and therefore older content ra
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by crowcroft 3y ago
What about the flow on impact this has for SEO though. Older content is MUCH harder to find because the web service supporting it doesn't support some new standard from Google and we lose access to a lot of niche sites. Then we also ha
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by crowcroft 3y ago
On one hand Google really wrapped up the whole market quite effectively (especially on the publisher side). On the other hand, I don't know anyone that considers the DoubleClick stack 'nice to use' (best of a bad bunch maybe)
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by crowcroft 3y ago
A good example is looking for 'unique devices' that are doing the action. It is fairly trivial to have 20 unique devices generating 20 clicks, quite a bit more challenging to have 20,000 unique devices generate 20,000 impressions.
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by crowcroft 3y ago
The unintended consequence of paying per click is that it heavily incentives bot fraud, despite what Google might say about 'amazing performance' (Taboola is also a CPC model for context). This is also another step towards unifyin
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by crowcroft 3y ago
Possibly, but it wouldn't really make sense to offer it at a lower price considering their current monthly ARPU in Europe is ~$6-$7. If they offered a lower price subscription and a lot of people jumped onto it it would be disastrous f
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by crowcroft 3y ago
Those two things are incredibly related. The reason algorithmic feeds are they way they are etc. is so that they can optimise ad load and make more money. They want you be sucked into anything they possibly can to get you to scroll more, an
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by crowcroft 3y ago
Pivoting to a subscription model is going to be incredibly difficult, but long term is critical if Meta wants to offer a platform that makes massive profit, and doesn't make a bunch kids want to kill themselves etc. The core issues are
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by crowcroft 3y ago
To me what's interesting is that Google feel the need to make a commitment, and Apple don't. Apple isn't perfect, but they have a good track record of providing updates/security patches and in general supporting the hard
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by crowcroft 3y ago
Not a bad assumption to be fair. Even if they don't actively share specific financial data, there isn't a good way to be able to verify and audit what exactly a Meta 'page counter' pixel is doing (and what Meta is doing
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by crowcroft 3y ago
I would be curious to know what data they're sharing exactly. Are they actually sharing any financial information, or are they just passing a counter back to Meta saying that person X filled out a form/visited a page. Not to say a