Comments on: Sorry Twitter, Facebook Is The Data Gold Mine

By: Tweets that mention Sorry Twitter, Facebook Is The Data Gold Mine | Regular Geek -- Topsy.com

Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:53:29 +0000

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By: The New Facebook, Twitter, and Streaming Status Updates: The Internet’s Newest Marketing Fool’s Gold « FRANK THE TANK’S SLANT

Sat, 09 May 2009 05:18:07 +0000

[...] loyal that they could blatantly turn them into ad farms. The greatest asset that Facebook has is the treasure trove of personal information of its users, but it must strike a delicate balance in using that information for marketing purposes. [...]

By: Facebook Teasing Us With Open | Regular Geek

Facebook Teasing Us With Open | Regular Geek — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 11:24:13 +0000

[...] Facebook is a marketing gold mine. They do not even have to charge for the data directly. They could charge for the ability to search extensively within anonymized data. They could charge for the amount of data returned from queries as well. The idea is that Facebook, and many of the existing social applications, are really just first generation applications. These will be the platforms that future applications may stand on. Twitter understands this and is trying to become the platform that people cannot live without. [...]

By: Spokker

Spokker — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 05:22:25 +0000

“By having your real name attached you will not throw some random hostile comment out, you will think about what you are doing first.”

And in one fell swoop all the honesty that anonymous people on the Internet provide is gone. And that’s fine for people who are into that sort of thing. But I’d rather converse on the Internet with people who aren’t afraid to tell the truth. If I want safe, boring generic talk I’ll just go to the office.

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By: Social Media Mining, The Data Is Out There | Regular Geek

Social Media Mining, The Data Is Out There | Regular Geek — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 13:27:28 +0000

[...] and application openness allow a wealth of data to be gathered and queried. I recently wrote how Facebook could use this idea to monetize their site: Facebook will be able to sell their data to companies wanting to understand market [...]

By: More of what other people are saying on the Web | Broadcasting Brain

More of what other people are saying on the Web | Broadcasting Brain — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:14:13 +0000

[...] finally, Rob Diana hits the nail on the head with: Sorry Twitter, Facebook Is the Data Gold Mine. Robert Scoble [...]

By: Adam Singer

Adam Singer — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:05:22 +0000

Yes, lots of data in Facebook. It’s a shame they have all this data and their ad targeting is broken.

By: Facebook Lexicon: Lo que Facebook prepara y lo que Twitter debería hacer — El blog de javier godoy

Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:05:06 +0000

[...] esto hay quien le llama mina de oro, y es cierto que muchas empresas estarían dispuestas a pagar por esta información, así que [...]