Comments on: Guardian column: Facebook’s choice http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/06/02/guardian-column-facebooks-choice/ by Jeff Jarvis Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:54:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Jeff Jarvis http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/06/02/guardian-column-facebooks-choice/#comment-376815 Jeff Jarvis Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:21:28 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=3643#comment-376815 Interesting question: I wonder whether anyone has ever calculated the opportunity cost for Google of not putting an ad on its home page. Interesting question: I wonder whether anyone has ever calculated the opportunity cost for Google of not putting an ad on its home page.

]]> By: Dorian Benkoil http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/06/02/guardian-column-facebooks-choice/#comment-376813 Dorian Benkoil Fri, 06 Jun 2008 20:17:20 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=3643#comment-376813 Openness vs. control: being a publisher vs. a "pass-through" network. The difference between being traditional media vs. Google. Even Goog at some point has to capture someone through their matter -- on something. But they are fine as long as someone passes through them. No destination needed. (In fact, their biggest destination, google.com homepage, has no "monetization" today. Imagine how much ads on that page could fetch. But they're not going for it) Openness vs. control: being a publisher vs. a “pass-through” network. The difference between being traditional media vs. Google. Even Goog at some point has to capture someone through their matter — on something. But they are fine as long as someone passes through them. No destination needed. (In fact, their biggest destination, google.com homepage, has no “monetization” today. Imagine how much ads on that page could fetch. But they’re not going for it)

]]> By: Bob Wyman http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/06/02/guardian-column-facebooks-choice/#comment-376393 Bob Wyman Mon, 02 Jun 2008 14:27:11 +0000 http://www.buzzmachine.com/?p=3643#comment-376393 In re: "openness v control": Chris Messina makes an interesting comparison between Facebook, the USSR and railroad gauges... See: http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2008/05/31/facebook-the-ussr-communism-and-train-tracks/ bob wyman In re: “openness v control”: Chris Messina makes an interesting comparison between Facebook, the USSR and railroad gauges… See:
http://factoryjoe.com/blog/2008/05/31/facebook-the-ussr-communism-and-train-tracks/

bob wyman

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