Time to Facebook the Tweets
This passed Sunday, it seems Facebook ticked off a couple of people by stiffening its TOS. Some seem to be interpreting it as them saying, “We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Content. Forever.“
Maybe a bit of a harsh reality to some, but ya gotta keep the lights on… and when you tout 6.6 billion “friendships” being made, that’s a pretty big light bill.
Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, is trying to wade off the backlash on his blog. Yet, unless him and his crew can come up with some pretty innovative revenue models; he might be turned into a reluctant Ad Madame. Good luck with that, Mark; glad I’m not you.
On the other side of the street, however, Twitter’s founder (Kevin Thau) isn’t pulling any punches regarding where he wants to go with his Tweets.
“We can measure the tweets,” he says. “We’re trying to figure out what
are the appropriate metrics around engagement and how to convey those.”
With cell phone tweets having grown a whopping 1000% over the last year, Thau can’t be oblivous to the businesses salivating over the possibilities of all that data. According to Forrester Research, there’s definitely demand.
All in all, as more and more of the free services mature, we find ourselves in the same place as we did with Xoom and MP3.com; where reality starts to set in and the more popular they get the more bills they incur along with seed capital investors breathing down the necks of young executives about, “Where’s my money, biotch!?!!”
What to do… what to do…?
Petaflops, Petabytes & The Senate?! Oh my!!
The Big Blue is already geared towards helping that money go to good use with their newest line of Super Computers and breaking the petabyte barrier.
In the next few days, the Senate is expected to pass a stimulus bill that will inject around $820 billion in government funding into national infrastructure and other job-creating programs. IBM is counting on a significant chunk of that money going towards IT-focused projects. In the House version of the bill, $20 billion has been allocated for digitizing health care, around $6 billion for increasing broadband Internet access and $4.5 billion for “smart grid” systems that distribute electricity more efficiently than the current system.
Forbes 2009
I know, I for one, welcome these advancements; as (IMHO) its about damned time!
Wha’chu think?
Only 960 of 4800 People Use Google™
One might think that; with all the mentions in the movies; Google™ is the end all be all for search. Yet, according to Forrester, only 20% of surfers use Google™ for search exclusively.
Forrester Researchfinds that just 20% of searchers use Google exclusively. The survey of more than 4,800 searchers also found that people thought Microsoft and Yahoo were better engines for news, finance and media content; Yahoo also trumped Google when it came to the site users identified as their home page. Forbes Magazine
With a new CEO in both camps, both MSN™ and Yahoo!™ are still not to be left out of the picture; and what about Jeeves (Ask™)…
Then again, Google™ themselves have always reported to their shareholders that search is NOT their main revenue stream; advertising is. Yet, the ads will go where the eyes are.
hmmm…