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For Facebook "active" has always meant "signed on within the last 30 days."


That depends entirely on the cost of a mistake. If the cost of mistake is low, it's better to make a lots of decisions quickly than it is to try to get each decision correct.


The fact that 10% come from that page is a problem, not something to brag about.


They send out emails. They're not relying on people reading the blog.

Also, http://www.businessinsider.com/yelps-first-daily-deal-beats-...


If you're producing the slides for a live audience, this style is superior. People can read faster than you can talk, so if what you're saying is all packed onto the slides it creates a bad audience dynamic.

If, OTOH, the slide you're producing are intended to be read, denser, more informational slides are appropriate.

As with most things in life, what to do depends on who your audience is.


Or, rather, you just enter a URL and it tells you what frameworks the app is using.


You've met one, now!


I think it just becomes story-telling.


OpenID and OpenSocial aren't getting traction anywhere.

OpenID because it's a non-solution to a non-problem, and OpenSocial because Google didn't provide developers with the primary benefit of the Facebook Platform (distribution).

Plus the social networks that implemented it were lame and didn't monetize well. OTOH, Playdom gor their start on MySpace.

http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/27/playdom-acquired-by-disney-...

If Google built a "game center" and let people send invites through gchat, we might be talking.


Yeah, everyone knows that search is only good for driving traffic at other pages where you sell banner ads. Building a portal is the only viable long-term strategy, and Yahoo! has that locked up.


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