Comments on: YASNS privacy http://terrychay.com/blog/article/yasns-privacy.shtml You tell that other boy, not to touch the woodwork... Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:03:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-hemorrhage hourly 1 By: The Woodwork » Blog Archive » What people want http://terrychay.com/blog/article/yasns-privacy.shtml#comment-63983 The Woodwork » Blog Archive » What people want Sun, 22 Apr 2007 05:02:33 +0000 http://terrychay.com/blog/article/yasns-privacy.shtml#comment-63983 [...] problem for most people isn’t privacy. The social networking problem for most people is obscurity. And the problem with that problem is that you can’t really have network privacy—the term is an [...] [...] problem for most people isn’t privacy. The social networking problem for most people is obscurity. And the problem with that problem is that you can’t really have network privacy—the term is an [...]

]]> By: tychay http://terrychay.com/blog/article/yasns-privacy.shtml#comment-45612 tychay Tue, 20 Mar 2007 02:17:35 +0000 http://terrychay.com/blog/article/yasns-privacy.shtml#comment-45612 Well Xanga has morphed from an epinions knock off, to a portal, to a blog, to a social network, so I guess it's okay to put it in this bin. There is something very wrong with the numbers on the right. Facebook is listed as having 16.7 million uniques/day according to the list, but has just shy of 15 million members. I believe their 30 day retention is amazing—around 50%—which means that their upper bound is actually 7.5 million uniques/day (assuming everyone who is retained visits the site daily). I bet their real number is around 4 million uniques/day. This is very good but is going to make around a $120 million/year less in expected revenue! Facebook pulls in 70k new members/day which is not enough to affect those numbers. The network is not useable unless you join. On the other hand, MySpace's numbers sound realistic, given that <a href="http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/060807-174705" rel="nofollow">Google paid $900 million for 3 years</a> on MySpace. Well Xanga has morphed from an epinions knock off, to a portal, to a blog, to a social network, so I guess it’s okay to put it in this bin.

There is something very wrong with the numbers on the right. Facebook is listed as having 16.7 million uniques/day according to the list, but has just shy of 15 million members. I believe their 30 day retention is amazing—around 50%—which means that their upper bound is actually 7.5 million uniques/day (assuming everyone who is retained visits the site daily). I bet their real number is around 4 million uniques/day. This is very good but is going to make around a $120 million/year less in expected revenue!

Facebook pulls in 70k new members/day which is not enough to affect those numbers. The network is not useable unless you join.

On the other hand, MySpace’s numbers sound realistic, given that Google paid $900 million for 3 years on MySpace.

]]> By: carpeicthus http://terrychay.com/blog/article/yasns-privacy.shtml#comment-45609 carpeicthus Tue, 20 Mar 2007 02:07:36 +0000 http://terrychay.com/blog/article/yasns-privacy.shtml#comment-45609 Xanga's an "up-and-comer?" The Xanga that started in '98? Xanga’s an “up-and-comer?” The Xanga that started in ‘98?

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