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Category: Facebook

Archimedes Labs chat.center Facebook Mobile

Dear Zuck, Fuck!

I hope you don’t mind me calling you Zuck. We barely know each other, although I did once bump into you whilst walking in College Terrace in Palo Alto. The thing is, Mark feels too familiar, and Mr Zuckerburg way too formal. Besides I am a veteran entrepreneur and you are way younger than me so Mr feels, you know, a bit much. Zuck feels just about right, and the good thing is it rhymes with fuck! — which is really pertinent given what I am about to say. Well, Zuck, it seems as if your Messenger team has been closely watching what

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Facebook Features Google Mobile

The impact of mobile growth on web advertising. Is Android bad for Google?

Google and Facebook can’t turn off the mobile deluge I just posted on TechCrunch. The article focuses on the Facebook S1 filing and in particular on the risks section that covers the growth of the mobile internet and its potential impact on the web business model. Facebook itself has been very clear that its advertising revenues are exclusively derived from its web site, and also that an increasing amount of its usage comes from mobile in general and smart phones in particular. Buried in the article is this point: Google’s present – and Facebook’s future – involves the painful fact that

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