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Re: NASDAQ:FB

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Post by marshray »

mkr-hn wrote: post #101
marshray wrote: post #89

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've been chatting on HN and posting links for a year or two now, but I still haven't figured out what I gain by a higher karma. Sure, it's a tiny treat to see your link get popular or your number get a bit higher. But am I missing something?

It's not about karma. It's about making sure things I think are worth seeing are seen.

That makes sense.

That I didn't think about that way immediately probably says that you have a much closer relationship with the HN readership than I do. :-)

Re: NASDAQ:FB

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Post by fear91 »

marshray wrote: post #104
fear91 wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So are we rooting for the fall of Google, too?

Google seems to have a pretty good track record of being a well run, profitable company. In my opinion anyway, FB still seems to be in the "do something big, figure out how to profit from it later" stage. That's all well and good, but I don't know that it's $130+ per active user good. How many ad banners are these people going to click? To put this in perspective, the initial valuation of $104B is over 2/3 the entire…

I believe that Facebook could make something like AdSense. They have vast quantities of info about people and their interests. Additionally, thanks to the huge presence of facebook tracking codes (Likes) on websites, they can track which websites you visit - additionally increasing targeting efficiency. It would be fun seeing google decreasing their margins on AdSense (38% of webmasters profit?) vs AdvFace(or something like that).

They could also use some of the IPO money to acquire Bing and somehow mold if with the Facebook.

I think that Facebook valuation is so high because of many possibilities similiar to those I've just outlined.

Re: NASDAQ:FB

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Post by alecco »

alexchamberlain wrote: post #109
mootothemax wrote: post #107

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seems like a few trading sites are having issues with high traffic levels - not sure if that'd cause an increase OR a decrease :)

It sounds like NASDAQ were having traffic issues. Be interesting to hear the excuse .

The market's full of morons today.

http://blogs.wsj.com/marketbeat/2012/05/18/crazy-but-true-a-...

Re: NASDAQ:FB

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Post by larrys »

alecco wrote: post #29

This is like a NASCAR race, many (most?) of us watching secretly hope for a spectacular crash. It's wrong, but the potential of schadenfreude is very tempting.

What's really strange is that I actually profit from all of this hype (if they do well people end up wanting to buy domains which I help with and make money from) and for some reason I want to see the carnage also.

The worse years I had were after the first bubble and the best years are during this bubble but I still feel the way you are describing.

Re: NASDAQ:FB

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Post by _delirium »

alexchamberlain wrote: post #105
blantonl wrote: post #100

First trade at 11:30:09 CST 2000 Shares at $42.05 (SELL)

It's falling fast... $40 atm. Edit: $40 seems to be a barrier (not a surprise). It will take a little while for all the limit orders to be satisfied there.

Then back down to $38 for a bit, then back up to $40 for a bit. Oddly step-like price graph, with steps on the even numbers. I guess I have no idea how trading in this kind of opening works to hazard a guess.

Re: NASDAQ:FB

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Post by kamaal »

The share price is dropping. So far very exciting 20 minutes. The stock price is fluctuating up and down.

It went to $40 its now back to where it started. Things volatile at this moment.

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