Confident as ever that a next huge wave of the boom is FinTech. Great energy as young people leave banks and hedge funds and build product — howardlindzon (@howardlindzon) July 23, 2014 I had yet another mobile moment last week that made me realize how UNDER appreciated this ‘mobile’ boom has been. I walked into …
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Facebook and Wall Street …SHARE IT is the new HOARD IT!
Facebook $FB the most exciting IPO I have watched unfold. It is another nail in the coffin for the future of Wall Street research. All the experts on the topic of social graphs, the social web, the mobile mobile and the internet are outside the walls of Wall Street and the metrics that matter will …
Sorry Zuckerberg/Facebook…The Age of Privacy Ended Long Ago
I believe strongly in ‘User Controlled Privacy’. We have been abused by the old guard. Our names and financial info have been sold in disgusting ways. BUT, we have been lazy with our data. I don’t expect much to change or Facebook to behave any better than the last generation of data whores. I can …
Hey Internet (Google, Twitter, Facebook)…There is NO Such Thing as 'Open'…Just 'Open Enough'
The whole ‘Open’ internet meme has always been something I try to avoid because I believe it’s a circle jerk. If you have an open mind you know that open is a fantasy, a myth. No business or person can survive totally open, save Bill Clinton. You are open until you need to make a …
Addicted To Connection?
I am. Last Thursday morning, I was trapped in a small elevator for about 3 hours. It was my building in Soho so I was somewhat comfortable. I buzzed the emergency button a few times, but that only irritated the comers and goers to the building. Their daily lives went on without their elevator. They …
FaceBook and YouTube Dilemma's…Not Revenue, but Valuation
The people at Craigslist got it right. They answer to pretty much no one. They have an awesome business and they hook guys up with naughty chicks. Facebook and Youtube…not so much. Another day, another drama unfolding about the revenue problems for both. Mark KookyZoookerberg is holed up like Yassir Arafat eating plums and sipping …
Facebook Cleanup Possible and a Smart 'Open Web' Move
It has been a few weeks since I checked MY Facebook. My friend Nick at AllFacebook is breaking some news that Facebook is opening it’s platform to the real web . If that’s true, that would be meaningful and very useful to us boring bloggers. Otherwise, there is just nothing going on there for me. …
Facebook…Fucked? Or Just us Old People?
What an amazing Meme developing over Robert Scoble’s ‘theft’ of data from Facebook. Nobody is getting this right. Valleywag hates him/jealous of him the most so let’s link there . Facebook has a terms of Service. Scoble broke it. It’s not like Facebook is complicated. You sign up, you are fucked. You get lots of …
Lindsay Gets Poked on Facebook…So Will your Data
I have had my say in the past on Facebook going from bullish to apathetic. Today, Lindsay pokes around . In the future it will be the hackers turns. Too much data for the hackers to ignore. Expect many more stories like this . To stay up on Facebook, I check in on All Facebook …
BuddyMedia.com on Naked Putz….Not Love, But Affinity
Mike’s BuddyMedia is growing fasssst. It is ambitious for sure, but it makes sense. A worldwide web affinity program. Mike is starting out the program on Facebook to great success. Today we talk about the program on Wallstrip’s weekend Naked Putz . Skyworks Games has a great case study on why they see it working …