Archive for July, 2007

Facebook vs. MySpace

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

There’s a lot of buzz about Facebook these days, and the stats point to a still dominant MySpace. http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/11/myspace-still-the-king/
One factor in their differences that I think is critical to their product direction is that Facebook avoided getting swallowed up by Yahoo! whereas MySpace became part of the Fox-NewsCorp empire.  And I think in small but strategic ways, you see […]

Price = Marginal Cost

Thursday, July 12th, 2007

As I was buying a digital “gift” (aka icons) on Facebook for Caterina who just had her baby, I saw that the one I wanted to buy was a limited edition (100,000 only! Buy now!) and it cost $1.  I don’t know how many of these Facebook sells each month, but it is easily a side business […]