Comments on: Facebook renews some trust, lives another day http://weblog.terrellrussell.com/2006/09/facebook-renews-some-trust-lives-another-day/ Ideas on interconnections, identity, and information from all sides. Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:36:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Terrell Russell http://weblog.terrellrussell.com/2006/09/facebook-renews-some-trust-lives-another-day/#comment-174 Terrell Russell Fri, 08 Sep 2006 16:35:22 +0000 http://weblog.terrellrussell.com/2006/09/facebook-renews-some-trust-lives-another-day/#comment-174 jkd, Yes, he's got a good handle on it. And if he didn't before - he certainly does now. 2 billion - that was the asking price right? I'd say that letter was worth at least a couple hundred million dollars. What's that per word? jkd,

Yes, he’s got a good handle on it. And if he didn’t before - he certainly does now.

2 billion - that was the asking price right? I’d say that letter was worth at least a couple hundred million dollars. What’s that per word?

]]> By: jkd http://weblog.terrellrussell.com/2006/09/facebook-renews-some-trust-lives-another-day/#comment-173 jkd Fri, 08 Sep 2006 16:29:52 +0000 http://weblog.terrellrussell.com/2006/09/facebook-renews-some-trust-lives-another-day/#comment-173 The first thing that struck me when reading that letter from Mark Zuckerberg was its message penetration: it almost certainly ranks as the all-time most-read splash page in the history of teh Intarwub. Seriously, I'd guess that upwards of 50% of users read every single damned word of that letter. And as you say, it was exactly the right thing to do, expressed in exactly the right tone. After reading the New Yorker profile of Zuckerberg a while back, I'd taken him for being largely an operator, but this has really upped my esteem of him. And what's more, it seems that - unlike any of the proprietors of previous SNSes - he actually has a pretty good handle on what's he's got. The first thing that struck me when reading that letter from Mark Zuckerberg was its message penetration: it almost certainly ranks as the all-time most-read splash page in the history of teh Intarwub. Seriously, I’d guess that upwards of 50% of users read every single damned word of that letter. And as you say, it was exactly the right thing to do, expressed in exactly the right tone.

After reading the New Yorker profile of Zuckerberg a while back, I’d taken him for being largely an operator, but this has really upped my esteem of him. And what’s more, it seems that - unlike any of the proprietors of previous SNSes - he actually has a pretty good handle on what’s he’s got.

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