Comments on: The Coming Facebook Gold Rush

By: Will Likes be the New Currency of the Web? | Leveraging Ideas

Will Likes be the New Currency of the Web? | Leveraging Ideas — Mon, 03 May 2010 03:31:15 +0000

[...] months earlier I wrote about the impending “Facebook gold rush” and I believe it’s beginning to materialize. Facebook is a true force and I don’t think [...]

By: Sam Huleatt

Sam Huleatt — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 01:30:07 +0000

Hey Albert!

I would love that. I didn't mean anything negative by my comments and would love to better understand how we can benefit from Kontagent. My initial impressions are often wrong.

Happy to chat...I'm sam dot huleatt at gmail dot com

By: alai2001

alai2001 — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 22:49:33 +0000

Hey Sam,
Curious as to what aspect of what you're doing where Kontagent lacks value compared to your experiences with KissMetrics.

The founders of KissMetrics are friends of ours, and we have tremendous respect for what they are good at.

That said, this is interesting to me as we're one of the very few (if not the only) folks in the space that has gone deep into the social analytics world (analytics = instrumentation +optimization) -- with a complete A/B testing and viral track/optimization framework.

I'd welcome the opportunity to chat about what we might be able to improve for your needs, and share with you some of the things we have in the immediate pipeline that may very well change your mind.

Thanks,
Albert Lai
co-founder
Kontagent

By: David Skok

David Skok — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:59:56 +0000

Sam, would love to hear what you are up to when you feel the time is right. Thanks for the advice on Kontagent versus KissMetrics.

By: Sam Huleatt

Sam Huleatt — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:47:36 +0000

Thanks David.

I am working on something and am using this blog to touch on the underpinnings of my thesis.

Happy to share what we're up to and will let you know if I hear of anything else worth exploring. I know Kontagent, but don't see much value. The company to watch in this space is KissMetrics.

By: David Skok

David Skok — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:34:57 +0000

Sam, I do think that you are right about this. The question really is how many of these apps/games will have staying power, and also have the ability to monetize.

There is a very cool tool that I just came across from a blog visitor, called Kontagent that you might want to take a look at.

If you do come across Facebook apps that are doing well, and look they can build staying power, and monetize, I would love to hear about them.

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By: deadhedge

deadhedge — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 09:02:38 +0000

Interestingly, I just had an experience with a focus group that we put together where I saw the impending death of Facebook. It was a health care focus group and they were talking about how they have so little faith in Facebook's privacy policies that they would never put any meaningful information on Facebook anymore nor seek out any relationship via Facebook with someone that they do not know.

Granted this is healthcare not consumer goods or something like that. However, I saw the issues (real or perceived) that Facebook has dealt with around user concern for privacy as its potential downfall. If users no longer trust Facebook with information, they will not share nor trust any third party who tries to access them via Facebook.

By: Sam Huleatt

Sam Huleatt — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 07:06:33 +0000

Exactly.