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Is the problem with GM's ads or FB's platform? Ie - What's Ford, Toyota or Hyundai doing with their ad spend on FB? We might be jumping to conclusions a little too quickly here.
Forbes just reported that Ford and Chrysler are keeping their ad spend on facebook and are very happy with the ads.
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Interest is far from enough anymore and I think your example is an exception to prove the rule. Go watching a movie are such an ingrained part of life for many people and thus we are always "on the look" for a good movie to go watch. But try and do that with a car brand or any other non-commodity and intent suddently becomes the most important factor.
"Prove the rule" is a colloquialism that means "test the rule". The exception ends up disproving or clarifying the rule, not verifying it. It doesn't mean prove like passing that test.
I've said this repeatedly: Facebook is a high-risk proposition, particularly as an investment (disclaimer: I work for Google). "Intent" as other commenters have noted is a big part of the story but it's not the only story. Search can broadly be broken up into at least two categories: 1. Navigational eg typing "b and h" into the browser; and 2. Informational eg "cheap flights to jamaica". I don't know what the make up…
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Interest is far from enough anymore and I think your example is an exception to prove the rule. Go watching a movie are such an ingrained part of life for many people and thus we are always "on the look" for a good movie to go watch. But try and do that with a car brand or any other non-commodity and intent suddently becomes the most important factor.
"Prove the rule" is a colloquialism that means "test the rule". The exception ends up disproving or clarifying the rule, not verifying it. It doesn't mean prove like passing that test.
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then the app scrap (download) all data you ever had, all messages, photos, etc, everything within a couple of minutes If you think you could download people's entire photo collections in a "couple of minutes" then you underestimate the insane number of photos uploaded to Facebook every day.
no, you misunderstood or I haven't explained properly (mostly the latter). What I said is that the App would download all _your_ photos that you owe on your account. Given that it takes couple seconds max until I see a full photo from the moment I clicked it, it would take tens of minutes to download hundreds of photos: 5 sec per photo x 200 photos == 16 minutes of robot's work while you enjoy your drink. edit: so th…
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Forbes just reported that Ford and Chrysler are keeping their ad spend on facebook and are very happy with the ads.
what it means: "very happy"?. maybe they like losing money, are careless, or losing $10MM to them is still "being happy". Without conversion rates, or % of awareness arisen, its hard to say whether FB is valuable place to pay for ads.
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then the app scrap (download) all data you ever had, all messages, photos, etc, everything within a couple of minutes If you think you could download people's entire photo collections in a "couple of minutes" then you underestimate the insane number of photos uploaded to Facebook every day.
no, you misunderstood or I haven't explained properly (mostly the latter). What I said is that the App would download all _your_ photos that you owe on your account. Given that it takes couple seconds max until I see a full photo from the moment I clicked it, it would take tens of minutes to download hundreds of photos: 5 sec per photo x 200 photos == 16 minutes of robot's work while you enjoy your drink. edit: so th…
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"There is nothing preventing Facebook from being the next Myspace when something newer, cooler and hipper comes along and the users move on." I would argue that things like the massive photo collections people have made provide a large level of lock-in. I also suspect that Timeline is the first play in a "all your history, here" move that would make moving to another service very difficult.
I don't see a problem here. Most of folks here, including myself, over the span of one weekend could write a downloadable version of a Visual Basic application with a built-in Internet Explorer Window where you login to your facebook and then the app scrap (download) all data you ever had, all messages, photos, etc, everything within a couple of minutes, elegantly packet into zip, xml or whatever format you wish to h…
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Well if Facebook ads DO work (at least for GM) I don't believe they would have pulled their campaign no matter what ulterior motives they may have. Sales are sales.
Unless they obtained a better deal with a competitor; a competitor that might have an interest in sabotaging the IPO.
It would certainly be better for Facebook if this were a conspiracy, but I don't believe that's what's happening here.