Archive for 2012
‘It’s people! Facebook, is made out of people!’
Feb. 3, ‘12: Nice article by Farhad Manjoo at Slate identifying, on a high level, Facebook’s unique challenge: Even though Facebook is named after a real-world object, the site has no analogue in the offline world—before social networks, the idea of a worldwide … Continue reading →
How Does Facebook Make Money?
Feb. 3, ‘12: Facebook’s IPO filing this week confirmed what we already knew: Facebook makes the vast majority of its money by selling ads on its site. But now we know just how much of its revenue comes from advertising: 85% in 2011, … Continue reading →
Facebook IPO chart porn
Feb. 3, ‘12: There’s lots of interesting data in Facebook’s IPO filing, and I’ve highlighted and visualized some of it for ReadWriteWeb. Did you know, for instance, that 57% of Facebook’s monthly users worldwide visit on an average day? (But that it’s more … Continue reading →
Tracking the Facebook IPO coverage
Feb. 1, ‘12: Facebook filed for an IPO today; here’s a link to the SEC filing. The best place to follow what’s in it — both the important and the trivial — actually seems to be a well-curated Twitter timeline. I don’t think … Continue reading →
Amazon Kindle sales almost triple to ???
Jan. 31, ‘12: As expected, Amazon didn’t reveal how many Kindle Fires it sold last quarter in today’s earnings report. But it did say that Kindle unit sales grew 177% year-over-year during the 9 weeks ending Dec. 31, 2011. That’s better than Apple’s … Continue reading →
iAd Will Have A New-Look Sales Team: Two More Quattro Guys Leave Apple
Jan. 31, ‘12: As Apple’s new iAd lead — ex-Adobe exec Todd Teresi — reshapes his organization, two more ex-Quattro Wireless execs are leaving the company, sources say. (Apple bought Quattro two years ago to jump-start its iAd advertising division.) Steven Rosenblatt (pictured left), who … Continue reading →
Apple hires U.K.’s Dixons CEO John Browett as SVP of Retail
Jan. 31, ‘12: “Our retail stores are all about customer service, and John shares that commitment like no one else we’ve met,” said Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO. Dixons is basically the U.K. equivalent of Best Buy. (I’m not 100% sure, but I think … Continue reading →
Ron Johnson talks to the AP
Jan. 30, ‘12: Some interesting stuff, though nothing earth-shattering, from the JC Penney CEO, previously Apple’s retail boss. Though — attention to detail! — he did get the iPad launch year wrong: It was 2010, not 2009. Perhaps he’s not used to be … Continue reading →
How Hollywood is inadvertently helping Netflix kill the DVD
Jan. 30, ‘12: In this case, it’s worth it for Netflix to play along with ridiculous rules like “no new Warner Bros. releases in your queue for 28 days.” As I explain at ReadWriteWeb: …Because Netflix actually has the same goal that the studios do: … Continue reading →
Today’s downtime
Jan. 29, ‘12: SplatF was down for more than 12 hours today, thanks to a massive, undisclosed problem with Dreamhost, my host. This sort of outage is unprecedented in my many years working with Dreamhost. But because of its duration — and Dreamhost’s … Continue reading →
