Social Media

There’s an excellent summary of how FaceBook came to be and what its possible valuation might be at: Facebook Case Study: Offline behavior drives online usage - Startup Review Blog

The week outside MyPages started with an article in the paper about LiveJournal, based here in Portland, being sold to Six Degrees. Because we consider user involvement so important for MyPages, I’m very interested in hearing what happens with any community-based website. Whether the community is online, as with LiveJournal, or more local like Craigslist. No outsider is going to know the terms of a deal between two private companies unless something goes very wrong or very right. Either somebody sues or they’re written up in Fortune or Forbes. But it seems like a good time to be running a community site. ...