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no he is not well networked. I mean, who ever heard about Pinterest or Turntable?

I voted you up because you bringing a great point. didnt think this way. but now going this hm path :) if there will be any FCC or other inquiry, wonder if longterm this will help Path or not.

I will join you from the other angle. Hat off to Mr. Mason for a genius idea, but in the wildest dream I wouldnt come up with a business where you ask a store to cut their price 50% and share 50% of the remaining 50% with me just for announcing your deal. when this just came in public light, to me it felt like an insult: I thought no way a store will lose money on each merchandise sold because there are not in charity business and to me it was simply an insult that before that deal they tried to rip me off with jacking up the price 150% (since they would still make money after the discount and 50% to Groupon).

my eyes got killed when I click on the link. bleeding orange. but got used to after a minute. how do i check other users? some minor glitch in html/css - on chrome top banner glues text together (I gave adblock turned on fyi) last q: how do you scrap data??

11% comes from credit and (as we know) 12% comes from Zynga.

they do just not in a monetary form, but by letting you use their services for free. it cost more to run, for example Facebook site, than $1.

> I don't understand why Facebook's IPO is different from every other IPO that has happened in the past.

its important because FB is the biggest social network on the internet. Believe it or not, many people still dont understand or get what "social web" means. Having FB stock publicly traded (company more transparent) and strong earnings would prove to the masses that web and social net is sustainable AND profitable AND here to stay. And it already works! look what happened with Zynga stock after FB IPO papers hit the daylight.

if it really become a problem I dont think Fb/Zuck can stop hackers/programmers from building tools to export user profile, all photos, data, etc.

its quite simple VB stand-alone (so they dont block one IP) application with IE window in it. you log in, and VB is scrapping all the data creating excel file with contacts, saving images organized in folders for other web import, etc). not that big of a deal, right?

> For example, myself and several of my friends are spending time working and studying abroad. Facebook is the best way to keep in touch.

in your example, can you explain how FB is better than AIM/ICQ or any other instant messanger in what you trying to do?:

FB and any other IM:

- accept people you want on your list, delete etc - see whos up right now - text to one or multiple users the same time (can FB do that), send photos, music, any files - more?

I heard it so many times users saying they need facebook for this or that but in reality, they dont. Its like my sister says she needs to go to google to search for facebook to click on facebook link to go to FB.

no worries: every empire fall before (you can downvote me now)

maybe its not to you, but if users/observers stop judging what they use or see, one day everyone will be ripping off (not "getting inspired", but copying or stealing) each other, because, well noone says a bad word so its a good thing to do.

re: Linkedin: I found it hard to believe. I receive the same emails from them for years and most do not open /straight delete. and they never stop.

With the speed we humans progress in technology and science (think today versus 30 years ago), I think its reasonable to say in next 30 years we will master scanning/printing on the atom level.

By scanning I mean taking any object (or living form) and shoot it with some wave to obtain a matrix image (like MRI) but on an atom level.

By printing I mean you will have an .ato file just like a CAD drawing and printer will print a 3d object but instead of using plastic or some material it will print using single atoms.

This technology will ultimately solve all human problems, lets only pray that it will be developed by some consortium of civilized and reasonable countries.

Transportation will be fixed by ability to "teleport" people. your atom map will be saved and transferred over Internet to a destination, where a printer will print you out. Within the time once mastered this, we will be able to solve all health problems. You will be scanned and all your health issues fixed by an algorithm working on your image file, then from your image reprinted healthy, perhaps even without that pot belly.

Our cities will be rebuild (reprinted) from a scratch by this technology.

I know this sounds like a heavy delusional science fiction, but todays scientists are already able to change metal into gold by shifting atoms, its just process alone is extremely expensive, making it useless from a financial point of view.

and also -- any idea how much they can bring id ad revenues?

I agree with you. Its just getting to be too tempting. Plus government would be the last one to worry if they destroy something.

They could look very deep into the "made in china" "issue". Lookup "Kluska" - owner of company Optimus in Poland. One of the richest man in 90s. Basically, CBS imprisoned him for months after he allegedly broke the law by exporting parts to foreign countries where PCs were assembled and brought back to Poland. The issue was that he did not pay tax out of the assembly. After years of litigation (bail denied), he was free man, while his company went bankrupt and he was left in debt after fighting with Government. Polish IRS (Urzad Skarbowy) did not even apologize.