Comments on: Report: Facebook IPO set for May 18 http://boingboing.net/2012/05/01/report-facebook-ipo-set-for-m.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Tue, 21 May 2013 20:41:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Jim Saul http://boingboing.net/2012/05/01/report-facebook-ipo-set-for-m.html#comment-1411988 Jim Saul Wed, 02 May 2012 18:45:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157923#comment-1411988 I guess another question would be... given Apple's current dominance of the mobile market and their status in the stock market, why wouldn't they leverage that to create a Facebook replacement within their walled-garden of apps? I guess another question would be… given Apple’s current dominance of the mobile market and their status in the stock market, why wouldn’t they leverage that to create a Facebook replacement within their walled-garden of apps?

]]> By: Fnordius http://boingboing.net/2012/05/01/report-facebook-ipo-set-for-m.html#comment-1411377 Fnordius Wed, 02 May 2012 09:14:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157923#comment-1411377 Crap. They just had to ruin my birthday, didn't they? Crap. They just had to ruin my birthday, didn’t they?

]]> By: Jim Saul http://boingboing.net/2012/05/01/report-facebook-ipo-set-for-m.html#comment-1411233 Jim Saul Wed, 02 May 2012 05:01:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157923#comment-1411233 The valuation seems to be largely based on the assumption that nothing will ever displace it, that for some reason the chain from The Well through AOL, Yahoo, Friendster, Myspace, Linked-in, and every other social network just stops at StalkerBook. That seems patently ridiculous to me, but I'm not a billionaire, so what do I know? If that assumption is right, what will it look like in 10 years? Is there anything pushing Facebook to keep moving forward, beyond scraping up any other crumbs of data tracking they might have missed? The valuation seems to be largely based on the assumption that nothing will ever displace it, that for some reason the chain from The Well through AOL, Yahoo, Friendster, Myspace, Linked-in, and every other social network just stops at StalkerBook. That seems patently ridiculous to me, but I’m not a billionaire, so what do I know?

If that assumption is right, what will it look like in 10 years? Is there anything pushing Facebook to keep moving forward, beyond scraping up any other crumbs of data tracking they might have missed?

]]> By: MrJM http://boingboing.net/2012/05/01/report-facebook-ipo-set-for-m.html#comment-1411049 MrJM Wed, 02 May 2012 02:10:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=157923#comment-1411049 <i>Myspace</i> or <i>Pets.com</i>? Myspace or Pets.com?

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