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Apple's a very opaque company
why is it that you keeping records of location when the damn thing was turned off by people themselves it's like how is that a bug that's not a bug
it works during the Microsoft era but I don't think it will work all the time for Facebook if they continue to do it
Microsoft putting Steve bomber essentially another sales guy he came from the sales channel in charge
Tim Armstrong is the CEO of a well who's a fantastic guy he's a very smart guy he knows what he's doing except he is on sales so his background is sales
companies develop a certain way of things it's like you and I as we grow older we get set in our ways ... we all become calcified in our intellectual abilities and I think that's what happens to companies too
why is the board of Yahoo putting Carol Barts in charge Board of AOL putting Tim in charge uh or Microsoft putting Steve bomber essentially another sales guy he came from the sales channel in charge why do they do that and not find a product Visionary they don't trust the product people
if you look at you know Carol bar doesn't really have a his any any um historical you know uh presence in the internet
I think it has a lot to do with how the The Arc structure of of of Facebook Yahoo Microsoft they try and create teams of like 50 to 100 people to work on a little feature or a product whereas Facebook puts like four or five people to one product or new feature
I don't think the Groupon or living social have anything to worry about
if you build a platform that has two sharp of elbows then what you get is a community wanting to form outside of that and you create the own sense of competition
we know now it's Apple it's Google it's Facebook it's becoming Twitter just the enormous power they have and when they make a change like this there's a lot of collateral damage
Google analytics is it shows who's visiting your website it shows the referal refering sites and and who's ending up on your uh page but it doesn't show uh the the background of those people so Facebook is a lot more powerful from a monetization perspective
Facebook has just launched I'm told I haven't played with it yet a competitor for Google analytics
what Google knows is Google knows your intent you can type in baby carriage or stroller or whatever we want to call it and they know that you have intent to potentially buy that but what they know about me on Facebook when I engage is they know I'm 42 they know I have two kids they know I live in Santa Monica they may even know my political affiliation and they know who my friends are and by knowing who my friends are they can draw inferences that that Google itself can't
admob just to be sure everybody knows was acquired for more than $700 Million by Google right
we have admob you know in there and I have to be very honest with you that is a horrendous advertising experience from a user perspective and the kind of money you make is just like pennies right literally we are still making less than $100 for the first month