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socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 23, 2008
I worked at Userplane, building social applications for sites like MySpace. To better understand the audiences using applications, we built out an analytics system a little over a year ago. We just recently started rolling out ad-related products, like Ad Manager, which is like Google's ad manager with baked-in social targeting.
socalTECH
SEPTEMBER 23, 2008
I worked at Userplane, building social applications for sites like MySpace. To better understand the audiences using applications, we built out an analytics system a little over a year ago. We just recently started rolling out ad-related products, like Ad Manager, which is like Google's ad manager with baked-in social targeting.
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Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 29, 2009
Facebook popularized the short-form “status update&# and this initially is called the “feed&# but over time starts to become known as the “ stream.&# Twitter then popularizes the idea of having only a stream (e.g. not all the other applications that were competing for user attention in Facebook). Just ask MySpace.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 13, 2010
If engineering got the shaft because “we need 3 more weekends from you to get this release out the door&# … then there better be a solution to make this up to them and to explain your decision. There’s no place for that in a startup. MySpace dithered. And I don’t say to do it lightly.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 10, 2010
Ultimately to become defensible the client application would want to diversify its “stream&# so would start supporting Facebook, MySpace and perhaps even IM products. I said this many times publicly before it ever started happening with Tweetdeck and Seesmic. Kind of obvious, huh? No, I don’t think so.
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