"Wow. You haven't even officially launched? Impressed. Ha! That's exactly why I asked about the coworking. Feel the same way, not useful to me unless I'm looking to socialize. Now we know why most office places don't get any work done. Thanks for the music tip, cool new find."
- David Cancel
"Yet you've created a service that kicks ass. Which reminds me I need to install Skribit! Do you find you like the group coworking thing?"
- David Cancel
"Hi Paul, Great point, I'll do that. I posted this too quickly, should've spent time explaining "why". By the way, huge loyal fan of your blog! David"
- David Cancel
"To achieve full nirvana state Facebook needs to also provide the monetization options used within the apps. Then its a closed-loop and ensures new money keeps coming into the system. I.E: Google Adwords+SEO Secrets+Google Adsense == Nirvana"
- David Cancel
"I saw this first hand with the Facebook App ecosystem. Please take a look at all those dead and dying Facebook apps when betting on a Twitter app. There were some successes on the Facebook platform, mostly in the Social Gaming category. What I hope Facebook is learning firsthand with the Social Games apps is that it should've left the app system "open" and built a perfect "closed-loop" monetization platform like Google has been able to with Adwords/Adsense. What Facebook should have done is built an ad platform that app developers could use to monetize their apps. Right now it's leaking all that money to 3rd parties and only capturing a small fraction of it via "Facebook Ads". If FB had a ad network for app developers it could've had all those apps buying ads on the current "Facebook Ads" platform to get installs/users and then monetized the new inventory created by those apps. Pay Facebook to get traffic/installs of your app and then make money from Facebook on all that new traffic...."
- David Cancel
"With my next startup I'm actually looking at flipping this model. Give away the advanced version and charge for the simple version. There are a just few examples of this "flipped" freemium model out there, at least that I can come up with. Thanks for the great posts."
- David Cancel