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Monday, 2 August 2010

economics of eau d'facebook

inspired by nettwerk's polyphonic rubric

facebook presentation for economics class

as a zeitgeist is shaped by adherence and participation
i think study of facebook as a passing business phenomenon

or a transitional stage of capitalism

or as tech evolution

or as a sociological normalizer---
gets an amzing amt of attention by berkman center

elevation---bono--
http://www.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2010/03/22/daily54.html

humanitarian press model---
moment at which myspace became a ghost town.

rev models come and go---litigational underbelly---bottom feeders fr legitimately wrongerd coders business partners-----

ERISA effect
nvca as trade group


wiki VC:
 In 1973, with the number of new venture capital firms increasing, leading venture capitalists formed the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). The NVCA was to serve as the industry trade group for the venture capital industry.[10] Venture capital firms suffered a temporary downturn in 1974, when the stock market crashed and investors were naturally wary of this new kind of investment fund.
It was not until 1978 that venture capital experienced its first major fundraising year, as the industry raised approximately $750 million. With the passage of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) in 1974, corporate pension funds were prohibited from holding certain risky investments including many investments in privately heldcompanies. In 1978, the US Labor Department relaxed certain of the ERISA restrictions, under the "prudent man rule,"[11] thus allowing corporate pension funds to invest in the asset class and providing a major source of capital available to venture capitalists

demise of music industry standards---banners---ad rev models---massive publicity channel---under the atlantic

accel---nvca--narus--inqtel connections
thiel

history of darpa chain
precursors

who would want to know

australia---norm for facebook to serve summons---

cyberdef
myspace suicide

risks---payouts---litigation prevention strategies to protect investors---
richard susskind the end of lawyers speaks of preventative legal per annum with comapny investigation overhauls at outset rather than post-litigation

differing norms over privacy issues----
original facing code suits and IP and privacy blocks---as standards mutate


what might have been a risky venture then goes gold---but stands to be eclipsed by the google me facebook killer acc to the massive google agitprop.

Q:
what is the futur of venture capital sourcing?
will there be new models---for instance p2p seed funding?
how diff fm going public?

what are revenue protection models?
diversification v. specialization

facebook as mass phenomenon dying to not be outmoded as new waves of innovation ecclipse it
twitter
videoconference and blogging


how restrictive privacy controls and tyrannical IP policy defeat investor trust
and or egregiously rude stmts by the zucker
hosting neonazis and other such ugliness.
litigation
VC

kistefos for bambuser

flattr model
peter sunde

ISP TPB investors

arts grants

indexing and surveillance
participatory surveillance
EFF

data mining
product placement accounts and features "like" feature

advertisement rev.
assumption: consumer will have a slow plateau of disgust and remain despite the battery

operationally in the red until 2009
profitability gauged by how much time looking at ads---or blockability

incentivization for data cough up: connectivity

disincentive: stalking, annoyance, format, ads, spam

commodification of personal stats as profitability strategy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venture_capital

microsoft
IPRED

tech control
IMF anti-copyright mafia---anakata

facebook as the collegiate
when should investors cut and run . . . how safe are the investments---how linkable to tax generated surveillance budgets? cushion

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