I voted you up because you bringing a great point. didnt think this way. but now going this hm path :) if there will be any FCC or other inquiry, wonder if longterm this will help Path or not.
I will join you from the other angle. Hat off to Mr. Mason for a genius idea, but in the wildest dream I wouldnt come up with a business where you ask a store to cut their price 50% and share 50% of the remaining 50% with me just for announcing your deal. when this just came in public light, to me it felt like an insult: I thought no way a store will lose money on each merchandise sold because there are not in charity business and to me it was simply an insult that before that deal they tried to rip me off with jacking up the price 150% (since they would still make money after the discount and 50% to Groupon).
Whether the 50% lines work for people is on a case by case basis, and you're certainly not alone in thinking there are some serious problems with it.
However, if you think of it another way, Groupon is marketing. Sure, using Groupon costs them money, but so does typical marketing, whether it's a clever PR campaign, or a TV advert, or a spot in the local newspaper... The real question is always going to be whether the results Groupon delivers you are worth the cost of the campaign, and how that compares to alternative forms of marketing.
my eyes got killed when I click on the link. bleeding orange. but got used to after a minute.
how do i check other users?
some minor glitch in html/css - on chrome top banner glues text together (I gave adblock turned on fyi)
last q: how do you scrap data??
Yeah design should have been better done. To check the other users, hover over the username for them. Should have been clearer and tested better overall.
How much would their service be worth to you without other user's generated content? If it's more important to you to see other people's content than you putting out your content, then you should be the one paying them to access other's content.
> I don't understand why Facebook's IPO is different from every other IPO that has happened in the past.
its important because FB is the biggest social network on the internet. Believe it or not, many people still dont understand or get what "social web" means. Having FB stock publicly traded (company more transparent) and strong earnings would prove to the masses that web and social net is sustainable AND profitable AND here to stay. And it already works! look what happened with Zynga stock after FB IPO papers hit the daylight.
if it really become a problem I dont think Fb/Zuck can stop hackers/programmers from building tools to export user profile, all photos, data, etc.
its quite simple VB stand-alone (so they dont block one IP) application with IE window in it. you log in, and VB is scrapping all the data creating excel file with contacts, saving images organized in folders for other web import, etc). not that big of a deal, right?
> For example, myself and several of my friends are spending time working and studying abroad. Facebook is the best way to keep in touch.
in your example, can you explain how FB is better than AIM/ICQ or any other instant messanger in what you trying to do?:
FB and any other IM:
- accept people you want on your list, delete etc
- see whos up right now
- text to one or multiple users the same time (can FB do that), send photos, music, any files
- more?
I heard it so many times users saying they need facebook for this or that but in reality, they dont. Its like my sister says she needs to go to google to search for facebook to click on facebook link to go to FB.
