Facebook is an ad agency; most of its revenue comes from selling ads. In fact, it’s the second biggest ad agency in the world, right after Google. Facebook needs to grow in order to please investors with the coming and awaiting IPO this year. Facebook, just like Google and other tech businesses, is a data-driven [...]
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Facebook: data-driven, data selling
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Musicians: Get Your Facebook Page Done Right
Musicians can use Facebook Pages to sell music and engage with their fans. They can also promote live shows with a special Concerts tab.
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Between Two TechCrunch Posts: Working On Stuff That Matters
ConcertIn moves forward, step by step gathering your feedback and usage data to help us to build something, perhaps small at the beginning, that really matters.
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Mark Zuckerberg would like to ..
Yesterday at f8 he said that all users will be soon on Facebook, right? So he would really like thi (see the picture).
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Geeks on a Plane made me yet more realistic
Starting a technology company in Czech Republic is Catch-22. Early-stage companies need in many cases investments (angel, seed) in order to take off. But they currently have hard times to secure the financing. Why? There are no investors willing to take a risk at the early-stage. Angels and VCs prefer to invest in already profitable [...]
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What is wrong with the social graph?
The web turns into a social space. Every new web app tries to grab a piece of the social media pie. To be viral is a new disease that spreads all over the web. From my point of view, this is a very unhealthy evolution.
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Drinking beer in 2.0 style (and how to build a devoted community)
Let’s assume you are damn thirsty and heading to your favorite pub to have a nice cold beer, as usually. You enter the pub, have a seat and are waiting for a waiter. Wrong! Not here and not now as it’s the old school. This is the new deal. You enter the pub, have a [...]
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The importance of being offline
The more time I spend online the bigger fan of offline activities I become. Julian Baldwin took a week off the FriendFeed never-ending conversation. Mark Evans is stepping away from the keyboard and looking for an inspiration. My mother has been disconnected for almost 10 years after she used to email me when I was [...]
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Make your users happy both online and offline
I started this blog with a not-too-much serious post about the importance of user engagement in social media. A part of the “heroin” statement still matters. Many web developers care very much for quantitative results of their work. To a certain extent I can agree. For example, I like colorful and wise presentations from Dave [...]
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Live Concerts: the best Elevator Pitch at TechCrunch Meetup in Prague
We had a chance to present our Live Concerts widget at TechCrunch Meetup in Prague last week. It was a great party not just because we won the Elevator Pitch contest (and MacBook too). It was one of the first major Web 2.0 events happening behind the legacy iron curtain. John Biggs from CrunchGear/TechCrunch was [...]
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