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For instance, at present Facebook makes just shy of $5 per user per year.

I think $1 per month could be reasonable, Spotify charges 5 - 10 times that. The idea is that you're changing the priority from building an amazing ad network to building an amazing social network.

The things that are good for users are nearly always bad for advertisers. Such as total privacy.


I don't believe I'm diving too deeply into these words at all. In fact, I'm not really talking about the words; my point is that they are a symptomatic of a larger problem, that is, Facebook does not seem to adequately understand emotion, love and friendship.


If someone new did come in, this is precisely what they should be keeping an eye on. I hope they fix it.


My logic was that, if Zuck is testing it, then perhaps it's a serious competitor to go live.


Yeah, but I wouldn't be surprised if Facebook were planning to expand their partnership with Microsoft Bing either.


yeah, the Quora idea is quite possible. Where search drives the interactions. As I wrote, search is something that’s totally under-realized on the Facebook platform. There is no way to search and filter content.


Maybe they'll roll out a HUD like the next version of Ubuntu?


No, this could change how you use Facebook. A doodle doesn't do that.


That is assuming we use facebook. I don't use facebook.

That said, this is somewhat interesting to me for 2 closely related reasons:

1) I like to know how the "big boys" think and it's entertaining to see the moves they make competitively.

2) Since the "big boys" are so influential, the moves they make could in turn affect my business decisions in the near future.


Wow, you don't use facebook. Good for you, But 500 million other people in the world do. That makes it a fairly big deal, love it or loath it. And as you so rightly just pointed out, this may in turn affect the way everyone else does business.


Did the way you use Facebook change significantly last time they changed the layout of the news feed?


Yep. I'm commenting on and liking all sorts of things I'd never have seen before the mini-feed in the top-right corner was introduced.


It did for a lot of people, indeed... Differences in click-through are quite measurable for us (a Facebook app provider).

The Ticker, specifically, proved to be a huge surprise, with click-rates higher than the regular click-rate of a Facebook Ad!


For me it didn't change my behavior, but that's not the point. I think the fact that Facebook may emphasize the search functionality more does mean something. As you know there's this thing called affordance.


Yep. Here's a quote by George Clooney about a conversation he had with President Obama.

"I talked with the president at one of those fundraisers some months back, and I asked him, "What keeps you up at night?"

And he said, "Everything. Everything that gets to my desk is a critical mass. If it gets to my desk, then no one else could have handled it."


I don't know what you mean, but are you really comparing Zuckerberg to a President?


If you're not trolling, he means those at the top have their problems filtered for them. The stuff that get to them are mostly top priorities.

Comparing the head of an organization to the head of a state is fair in this kind of context.


Yes.

He is president to the 850 million strong citzizens of Facebook abd that comes with great responsibility.

In anycase, I agree that the parent thread's analogy might be off a little


Would you really? Not sure about that, I imagine he believes in the public product. However, if something is being tested on his account, then it's possibly quite a strong contender for release(?)


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