Posts tagged “Social Media”

Over the last month 66,560,159 people have played the Sims Social on Facebook. That is more than double the audience who tuned in for Ashton Kutcher’s recent debut on the hit sitcom “Two and a Half Men.” It is roughly twice the number of copies of “The Catcher in the Rye” sold during the last 60 years. And it is about 20 million more people than have ever purchased Pink Floyd’s 1973 classic “The Dark Side of the Moon.

Tags: Gaming Social Media
Oct 12 2011

And what it comes down to, from the mouth of Fred Wilson no less: 

“We have not been able to quantify it. We haven’t even tried. Although I am sure someone could do it and they might be very successful with it.

To us, the ideal founding team is one supremely talented product oriented founder and one, two, or three strong developers, and nothing else. The supremely talented product oriented founder should have been obsessed about a product area/idea for a long period of time and just has to build something to satisfy their passion/curiosity. That’s about it. Joshua Schachter/Delicious, Jack Dorsey/Twitter, Dennis Crowley/Foursquare are the iconic examples of this kind of person in our portfolio.”

Tags: Social Media Startups Baseball
Sep 26 2011

Out of 100 people, 1% will create the content, 10% will curate the content, and the other 90% will simply consume it. That plays out on this blog, that plays out in Twitter, and that plays out in most of the services we are invested in. Twitter has 400mm active users a month, 100mm of them are engaged enough to log in, but only 60mm tweet. For years people have made it out like this is a bad thing. It’s not a bad thing. It is an amazing thing. Let people use the service the way they want and you’ll get more users. Logged out users are users just like logged in users. We should focus more on them, build services for them, and treat them like users, not second class citizens.

Tags: Social Media
Sep 16 2011

30% of the registered users or number of downloads (if its a mobile app) will use the service each month

10% of the registered users or number of downloads (if its a mobile app) will use the service each day

the max number of concurrent users of a real-time service will be 10% of the number of daily users

Tags: Social Media
Jul 30 2011

The “dopamine squirt” they get from receiving messages…

Schumpeter: Too much information | The Economist

A bit cynical but it’s at least from academia. Of course, this is also the crux of social media.

Tags: Social Media
Jul 24 2011

The customer is always right. Right?
fascinated:

The finest in user feedback.

The customer is always right. Right?

fascinated:

The finest in user feedback.

(via hypem)

Tags: Social Media Feedback
Apr 27 2011

Every media company should be afraid of Flipboard.

Tags: Social Media Startups Media
Apr 19 2011

EPICponyz: Social Media Explained
Amazing. 

Tags: Social Media
Mar 16 2011

To follow the daily or hourly news cycle is the media equivalent of day-trading: it’s frenzied, pointless and usually unprofitable. I’d much rather read an item which just showed me the photos or documents. And if you’re going to write some text, take a position or explain something to me. Give me opinion or reference; just don’t pretend you’re providing news. That’s not news.

Nick Denton: What I Read | The Atlantic Wire

You mean make something? This should be the mantra of everything that get’s published on a blog. I’m tired of reading nothing for the sake of someone writing something. 

Tags: News Social Media
Feb 7 2011

I feel so old. 

I feel so old. 

Tags: Social Media
Dec 16 2010