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Love the new video
Facebook Now Worth More Than Yahoo And eBay (via mikehudack)
I don’t think they do. The $500M Goldman just gave them was their IPO, just without any of the public regulation hassle.
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gbattle sez (from my comments here):
Actually, Goldman can’t lose in this scenario because the special purpose vehicle used for their high networth clients to invest in Facebook actually harkens back to the late 90’s internet IPO market, where investment banks rewarded their best clients with a taste of the IPO selectively. Effectively, this is a synthetic IPO. These perks are precisely what Google fought against with the auction model - fair distribution of IPO shares at the opening price. These non-dollar (but very profitable) perks are an endemic in an industry built upon quid pro quo meets reciprocity … Facebook is small potatoes to Goldman. Any Facebook position they take will be immediately sold at profit to their best clients. What better, more trusted way is there to satisfy the insatiable institutional demand for a pre-IPO name?
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Charles Dickens had his dead cat’s paw turned into a letter opener.
A Closer Look at the New York Public Library - Gothamist
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eat.ly got nommed
2105:
Video will be the online advertising engine | Monday Note
…let’s look at the money side. What does advertising have to do with bandwidth issues? The answer is: behavioral vs. contextualization. Ads will shift from a delivery based on context (I’m watching a home improvement video, I’m getting Ikea ads), to targeted ads (regardless of what I’m watching, I’ve been spotted as a potential motorcycle buyer and I’m getting Harley Davidson ads). Such ads could be in the usual pre-roll format (15 sec before the start of the video) or inserted into the video or the stream, like in this example provided by Akamai.
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These are the results you get when you search for “Facebook” on Youtube.
Srsly?
