#DEVNULL BLACKHOLE FACEBOOK TRIAL#

#DEVNULL BLACKHOLE FACEBOOK TRIAL#

The newspaper trial in the US has expanded from 50 newspapers to 225 with a combined a circulation of 30m. Google has been running its trial of aggregating adverts for newspaper adverts for a while now, as well as cooking up similar schemes for radio and, no doubt, TV. 'Given a seemingly increasing disconnect between management commentary and operating results, a sale of Yahoo seems more likely.' ( Bloomberg and MarketWatch) Yahoo has 'dramatically underperformed,' said Moran. Microsoft was rumoured to be interested in merging with Yahoo, a move that analyst Clayton Moran said would increase competitiveness with Google for both companies. Yahoo's shares dropped to the lowest point since January with the results. Yahoo reduced revenue forecast, as revealed in its financial results earlier this week, mean a higher probability that the company will be sold, according to analysts at the Stanford Group. It's all very different from using the web as a platform to distribute Sony's own content, which it says is not the goal here. Quarterly competitions will be held with cash prizes. Crackle offers a player widget for social net sites and the obligatory Facebook application, as well as a development and acquisitions team that will try to spot talent that could be nurtured into a series. Sony is focusing the site as a new talent portal - quite a different proposition to the video and photo sharing tool it was pitched at before but apparently in line with what the Grouper founders had in mind even before the buyout. Sony Pictures has introduced to the world - the incarnation for video-sharing site Grouper that it bought last year. Variety points out that from a big business perspective, user-generated content is still a bit of a no-no. If this is the state of things now, how much madness will there be in November? And shall I queue? That'll be something else on London's buses that Big Ken can worry about. Expect more hacks, or at least hack attempts.Įlsewhere there are rumours that the next iPhone (and iPod) might (and that's always a big 'might') have a ' dynamic lyrics display', or karaoke to you and me. Some wise-arse reckons they have made an iPhone work on Vodafone in the UK by getting the company to liven a US-registered SIM and then putting it in his iPhone. It's really much smaller than I'd imagined. I saw one this morning, very prominently displayed on someone else's breakfast table in my favourite breakfasting hole on Clerkenwell Road. Rummage around, and you find a valuation in April last year for $550m, and the rumoured Viacom offer of $750m.Ī few months back, most of the audience at Internet People scoffed at Robert Loch's bet that Facebook would sell for $4bn within four years. Does that add a billion dollars to the price tag?

In the latter case, Facebook now has two of the Firefox geeks on board. So on valuation, does it seem that Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg was right to turn down Yahoo's $1bn? Valuations can be based on predicted revenue, as Yahoo did, user numbers (which at the YouTube acquisition rate would put Facebook at $2.6bn) or, Valleywag's Owen Thomas suggested today, in terms of developers. Its impact on email services is also interesting because Facebook email is replacing conventional email, but at the same time driving traffic because it sends a notification. I wrote about Facebook today: London is now the biggest network and is seeing double the growth of the rest of the site at 6%. At least until we all get a bit claustrophobic inside that walled garden, or something better comes long. Like my Moo party guy said, it could be where the internet ends. If you can bring in a widget to do everything you need online within one site, why would you ever need to go anywhere else? It's quite a vision. The acquisition of Parakey will feed Facebook's ambitions of being the internet inside itself. Now my blog, and your comments, are showing up on my Facebook Profile Page. 'I added the Wordpress Facebook Application a few days ago. Robert Scoble blogged about this yesterday, noting how we're all being sucked into the Facebook black hole. You can add a widget to pull in news feeds from elsewhere, your Flickr feed and all manner of other information on the web from dogs that need adopting (guilty, occifer) to film reviews.

What he means is that one you've put information into Facebook, it's very hard to get it out again.

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