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This is just silly. Even Facebook discourages buying likes at this point and says they have no value. Of course, you aren't seeing performance.

Thank you. The private messaging stuff is inside the app/ on Facebook, but feel free to use rafer at [companyname] dotcom. The developer site will go up when the iphone5 rush is ov…

Thank you! It's been a long road even to here, and we'll keep pushing.

Hi Nate, we need to work up to real personalization. Per greg's comment below (hi greg!), people's feelings on this stuff varies widely and doesn't correlate well with transit agen…

We currently work with Nokia on street imagery. We also have a bunch of (we hope) interesting facebook integration including photos that will start to build our own library over ti…

We are US only at the moment. http://blog.lumatic.com/post/31800648260/preparing-for-wedne... We're legally HQ'd in Singapore and funded by Joi Ito, so SG and TYO are near-term as …

Doing our best. Please push us.

Hi Mike, yup. Our Android app is behind for now. We busted our butts to make the iOS 6 launch and that's what dropped. We are hiring a dedicated android dev, hopefully for our Sing…

Treat the 'explicit assurances' like politicians' campaign promises. If they lose, the promises are irrelevant. If they win, those promises had better align with the new incumbent'…

Facebook has muscled in on literally everything but games, other than their ex poste facto 30% revenue share, and during their earnings report they intimated that they may get into…

I fully understand breaking the rice pots and burning the boats, and I hope that you are right. However, his implementation doesn't create the developer education that you suggest.…

IMO $1B for that kind of risk-free traction isn't significantly expensive to FB. Especially as FB desperately needed a volume of photos available outside the social graph in order …

I don't see it as crystal ball reading. The question that needs to be asked is, "If my new new thing takes off, what prevents the platform from cloning me, turning me off, and/or b…

It was lazy of me to inherit Dalton's term 'bully.' It should have been his expectation to only be compensated for EVA ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_value_added ) and not…

+1 That's why Case A doesn't work for me.

Like any other resource or dependency that you build into your business, using a platform requires an ROI calculation of some sort. The distribution advantage needs to be worth the…

I don't claim to understand @pmarca at all. I've never even shaken the man's hand. I've got some great supporters and advisors who help me tremendously. It just pains me to watch s…

I suspect that the Facebook App Center is different than the iTunes App Store in an analogous way and will do nicely competing against it once Facebook chooses to do so.

I'm applying it differently, and to the business before his pivot. I'm talking about his conversation with Facebook and his accusation that Facebook was underhanded. He didn't do a…

Exactly. Normal cannibalization. New businesses are built all the time by giving away what the incumbent charges for. Skype's an easy one. They don't charge all for normal calls, o…

Let me know if i can useful.

I've looked at how OPEN's vulnerable a couple of times. What's not covered yet in these comments are the host's notes on each diner. When I make a reso, if the restaurant has made …

Ad Hoc is a real destination. Most places aren't owned by Keller. OPEN controls the segment a level or two down from that. It's a reasonably popular discovery mechanism for the $25…

Yes, it's legal.