Comments on: Is Facebook Today’s Internet? http://www.hallicious.com/2009/09/is-facebook-todays-internet/ more bounce to the ounce Tue, 27 Jul 2010 01:46:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Losing Face: Is Facebook the next AOL? « SnowWrites http://www.hallicious.com/2009/09/is-facebook-todays-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-982 Losing Face: Is Facebook the next AOL? « SnowWrites Fri, 23 Apr 2010 23:51:33 +0000 http://www.hallicious.com/?p=744#comment-982 [...] Is Facebook todays Internet [...] [...] Is Facebook todays Internet [...]

]]> By: Hallicious http://www.hallicious.com/2009/09/is-facebook-todays-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-783 Hallicious Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:50:22 +0000 http://www.hallicious.com/?p=744#comment-783 Thomas, <br><br>I understand your points. I just think that fan pages are limited because you can't sell on them... And until you can, you're always going to want to bring people back to somewhere else, like your site where you can sell people something.<br><br>Why Facebook hasn't created a payment gateway and social marketplace for the brands that use Fan Pages yet escapes me. I understand they're profitable now but imagine if they threw an online auction and storefront capability on their platform and took a cut of each transaction... Thomas,

I understand your points. I just think that fan pages are limited because you can't sell on them… And until you can, you're always going to want to bring people back to somewhere else, like your site where you can sell people something.

Why Facebook hasn't created a payment gateway and social marketplace for the brands that use Fan Pages yet escapes me. I understand they're profitable now but imagine if they threw an online auction and storefront capability on their platform and took a cut of each transaction…

]]> By: Hallicious http://www.hallicious.com/2009/09/is-facebook-todays-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-461 Hallicious Wed, 23 Sep 2009 03:50:22 +0000 http://www.hallicious.com/?p=744#comment-461 Thomas, <br><br>I understand your points. I just think that fan pages are limited because you can't sell on them... And until you can, you're always going to want to bring people back to somewhere else, like your site where you can sell people something.<br><br>Why Facebook hasn't created a payment gateway and social marketplace for the brands that use Fan Pages yet escapes me. I understand they're profitable now but imagine if they threw an online auction and storefront capability on their platform and took a cut of each transaction... Thomas,

I understand your points. I just think that fan pages are limited because you can't sell on them… And until you can, you're always going to want to bring people back to somewhere else, like your site where you can sell people something.

Why Facebook hasn't created a payment gateway and social marketplace for the brands that use Fan Pages yet escapes me. I understand they're profitable now but imagine if they threw an online auction and storefront capability on their platform and took a cut of each transaction…

]]> By: Thomas Powell http://www.hallicious.com/2009/09/is-facebook-todays-internet/comment-page-1/#comment-460 Thomas Powell Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:39:55 +0000 http://www.hallicious.com/?p=744#comment-460 Why not a FriendFeed or Posterous-like meta-connection to the fan page? I would assume that APIs are robust enough at this point to enable something like this. You would manage your online presence from one location, yet users have several points of presence to interact with.<br><br>You could draw a parallel with business cards. How many people really use business cards? Even if that number were 1% of the total users, are you willing to sacrifice those users by not having a business card yourself? <br><br>The answer may depend on your intended target, but what if the *only* guy you meet that likes to have a business card is the guy with 10 million in his primary checking account, waiting for someone to invest it in? That insignificant portion of the population may be the important part.<br><br>Similar to finding former classmates, I think the beauty of a well-executed fan page is to reconnect someone with a long-lost brand that they liked long ago (which may only have only been a matter of months ago). My usual "fanning" is of a brand that I liked, but had forgotten about. Such customers may provide a high return on a very small investment. Why not a FriendFeed or Posterous-like meta-connection to the fan page? I would assume that APIs are robust enough at this point to enable something like this. You would manage your online presence from one location, yet users have several points of presence to interact with.

You could draw a parallel with business cards. How many people really use business cards? Even if that number were 1% of the total users, are you willing to sacrifice those users by not having a business card yourself?

The answer may depend on your intended target, but what if the *only* guy you meet that likes to have a business card is the guy with 10 million in his primary checking account, waiting for someone to invest it in? That insignificant portion of the population may be the important part.

Similar to finding former classmates, I think the beauty of a well-executed fan page is to reconnect someone with a long-lost brand that they liked long ago (which may only have only been a matter of months ago). My usual “fanning” is of a brand that I liked, but had forgotten about. Such customers may provide a high return on a very small investment.

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