Here are my notes from his talk, a mix of what he said and my commentary: In the summer of 2006, they grew from 30 million pages per day to 100 million pages per day, in a 4 month period. (Wow! In most organizations, it takes nearly 4 months to pick out,
the Facebook Platform is primarily for use by either big companies, or venture-backed startups with the funding and capability to handle the slightly insane scale requirements.
that since Google doesn’t reach all the way into homes (or even into the cable plant), it can’t scale across those boundaries to ensure quality of service. Giving the Reuters writer the benefit of the doubt, it’s also easy to see how Dureau’s quo
Do not get me wrong though, the root of Karp’s argument: that platform companies have scaled and content ones have not, is an argument worth examining.
The result of unbundling, disaggregation, the loss of pipe control (to use Andy Kessler’s construct) — i.e. the inability to force people to consume content they don’t want — is that content businesses don’t scale anymore.But all those MySpace p
Secondly, scale for us, and me, doesn’t really mean traffic, or for that matter, scaled revenues...it means influence. The people who cut the checks for everyone else in this industry, including any and all of the consultants writing about this industry
