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Facebook vs. Google

June 8th, 2009

Had a great discussion this morning with a co-worker.  The crux of the conversation is Google vs. Facebook — who is going to win. Is Google Wave the game changer that will kill facebook? Nope.  We’ve really created three different product spaces in these organizations.  We’ve got Google which is “defined” as an applications company [...]

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Facebook Ad Performance Day #2

November 21st, 2007

Well, it looks increasing they CPC rate to $0.55 has improved the impressions.  I’ve logged an additional 1,200 impressions in the last day.  I’ve also now gotten 12 clicks (up from 800 impressions an 0 clicks yesterday).  This now is showing a total over the run of a 0.73% CTR. The good part is that [...]

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Getting attention via Facebook

November 19th, 2007

Background: Wink has had no end of problems with Google.  It roots back to our book marking service which was overwhelmed with spammers.  At one point I estimated that 75% of our new user registrations were link farm spammers.  Over many months I’ve cracked down on these abuses and with the re-launch of our service [...]

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