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Post by leereeves »

Ayesh wrote: post #81
mbesto wrote: post #40

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> said on here the other day about adopting a "Berkshire model" This is not the Berkshire model at all. Berkshire buys businesses that have high cash flow models where money can compound over and over, usually in well established businesses that have operational issues that can be optimized for cash flow. > Just monetizing the web traffic 2.5 billions monthly hits at a $1 CPM alone would generate $2.5 million a month…

I run a web service that gets around 10m hits a month, and I serve one popup ad (yuk, I know) per day (or until cookies are cleared). Compared to revenue, hosting cost is next to nothing for sites like Tumblr that serve text/image content. A similar video site would need to spend a ton of money on bandwidth, streaming CDNs, encoding servers, etc. If you get 2.5 million hits a month, it is certainly possible to cover…

> If you get 2.5 million hits a month, it is certainly possible to cover the said selling price of $3m in ads alone in a month.

How do you figure? That would be over $1 per hit.

Re: Tumblr

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Post by [deleted] »

wyqydsyq wrote: post #91
nostrademons wrote: post #26

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IMHO Wordpress itself is grossly undervalued. I've done some whole-web analysis and they (including both the open-source project and the hosted service) account for roughly 18% of the web. The volume of content produced on them (in terms of # of words, not # of messages) is greater than on Twitter. If you look at comparables - with Twitter valued at $30B, Reddit at $3B, and Wordpress valued at $1.16B - it's pretty ha…

> IMHO Wordpress itself is grossly undervalued. It's kind of hard to put a monetary value on a product that is free

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Re: Tumblr

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Post by uncletaco »

umeshunni wrote: post #60
uncletaco wrote: post #27

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Twitter, IMO, is wonderful when you stop following journalists, politicians, and A list celebrities. What that leaves is mostly meme makers and minor influencers who generally wrap all the bad stuff inside of funny jokes and hot takes.

> Twitter, IMO, is wonderful when you stop following journalists, politicians, and A list celebrities. I've tried to, but Twitter seems to keep showing me all of this whenever someone I follow likes or retweets their posts.

See I'm not saying I get rid of them completely. I'm saying by the time it reaches me it's usually filtered through a joking retweet or a meme. So it's not as bad. Another thing I look for is if the person I'm looking at defines their whole twitter presence in terms of their politics. So people with bios that read something like "Republican. Gun Owner. Dad." or "Slut. Dirtbag leftist. Bernie would have won." generally are shied away from by me.

Re: Tumblr

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Post by NoahTheDuke »

avip wrote: post #67

Mr. Wilson's understanding of Tumblr is flawed [0]. There's a simple objective test (now irrelevant) to tell if a platform is largely about porn or not: [required ingredients: 1 searchable user-content platform, 1 keyboard, 1 daughter (optional)] 0. Go to thing 1. Open search bar 2. Open your hand 3. Hit keyboard with an open flat hand 4. Enter 5. Browse results - count how many you feel comfortable with your daughte…

> 5. Browse results - count how many you feel comfortable with your daughter being portrayed in

My daughter can do whatever she wants. Why are you shaming sex workers?

Re: Tumblr

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Post by Ayesh »

leereeves wrote: post #101
Ayesh wrote: post #81

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I run a web service that gets around 10m hits a month, and I serve one popup ad (yuk, I know) per day (or until cookies are cleared). Compared to revenue, hosting cost is next to nothing for sites like Tumblr that serve text/image content. A similar video site would need to spend a ton of money on bandwidth, streaming CDNs, encoding servers, etc. If you get 2.5 million hits a month, it is certainly possible to cover…

> If you get 2.5 million hits a month, it is certainly possible to cover the said selling price of $3m in ads alone in a month. How do you figure? That would be over $1 per hit.

I'm sorry a typo in my reply. GP mentioned 2.5 Billion hits/mo, not 2.5 mil.

Re: Tumblr

#107

Post by henrikschroder »

Macha wrote: post #97
henrikschroder wrote: post #66

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> Verizon bought Yahoo/Oath Verizon had ATH - AOL, TechCrunch, Huffington Post, then bought and added yahoO to the group, hence the name. Yes, that is exactly how uninspired these corporate names are.

You're widely overstating the importance of TechCrunch within Oath if you believe that that is the root of the name. While it's obviously well known within these circles, engadget is approximately equivalently sized (see Alexa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engadget vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TechCrunch ), and even when the company was described internally by its components they were AOL, Yahoo and sometimes als…

Ok.

I just remember seeing a bunch of press releases of how Yahoo would be folded into the group led by the former AOL CEO, and that that group also contained TechCrunch and HuffPo. It felt weird that just those two were often mentioned together with AOL, and the initials lining up...?

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