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Hmmm... so, AOL paid $850 M for 3.5 million visits a month. That means that they're paying about $250 a user. At the same valuation per user, that values Facebook at a paltry $ 7 billion. Another thought... if users are worth $250 a piece, maybe my blog that has 100 readers a month might actually be worth $25,000! Anyone wanna buy it? :)
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so they're roughly on par with World of Warcraft, except they have a much weaker brand?
kinda sad when you put it that way.
Hmmm... so, AOL paid $850 M for 3.5 million visits a month. That means that they're paying about $250 a user. At the same valuation per user, that values Facebook at a paltry $ 7 billion. Another thought... if users are worth $250 a piece, maybe my blog that has 100 readers a month might actually be worth $25,000! Anyone wanna buy it? :)
On a more serious note, the average facebook user spends more time on facebook (and views more pages, ads, etc) than the average reader spends on your blog.
i've tried reading up on "engagement advertising", but i continue not to understand it. it seems like a fairly empty buzzword for saying that the ads will be micro-targeted (maybe via social networking information you've revealed, like facebook's attempts?), which, to my knowledge, is a concept that hasn't seen much success yet.
Hmmm... so, AOL paid $850 M for 3.5 million visits a month. That means that they're paying about $250 a user. At the same valuation per user, that values Facebook at a paltry $ 7 billion. Another thought... if users are worth $250 a piece, maybe my blog that has 100 readers a month might actually be worth $25,000! Anyone wanna buy it? :)
Yahoo purchased GeoCities for US$1100 per user. Microsoft purchased a stake of Facebook for US$300 per user. So, AOL buying Bebo for US$250 per user is a relative bargain.
Regarding your blog, its only worth US$25000 if you can sell it. Otherwise it is worth nothing.
I thought AOL didn't really have any extra cash laying around? Where did they get the money?
Hmmm... so, AOL paid $850 M for 3.5 million visits a month. That means that they're paying about $250 a user. At the same valuation per user, that values Facebook at a paltry $ 7 billion. Another thought... if users are worth $250 a piece, maybe my blog that has 100 readers a month might actually be worth $25,000! Anyone wanna buy it? :)
This type of valuation has been mentioned before ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=121206 ). Yahoo purchased GeoCities for US$1100 per user. Microsoft purchased a stake of Facebook for US$300 per user. So, AOL buying Bebo for US$250 per user is a relative bargain. Regarding your blog, its only worth US$25000 if you can sell it. Otherwise it is worth nothing.
fix'd.