Comments on: Mark Cuban is lazy, and so are you http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/11/04/mark-cuban-is-lazy-and-so-are-you/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Sat, 30 Aug 2008 14:50:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Joe Duck http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/11/04/mark-cuban-is-lazy-and-so-are-you/#comment-335562 Joe Duck Mon, 05 Nov 2007 04:33:27 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2007/11/04/mark-cuban-is-lazy-and-so-are-you/#comment-335562 <i>it will effectively be in the driver’s seat as far as its 50 million users are concerned — regardless of what Google and its OpenSocial partners do</i> Matt I think this is a good summary and agree with Cuban about this part - it's a point Don Dodge was also making about people not defecting from Facebook, and 100 million eyeballs is a lot. But it's nothing like the billions of eyeballs at stake over the next few years. It seems to me that a lack of loyalty is the deal here and there is little for any social network. Mark's put a lot into Facebook (he has thousands of FB "friends". I'm more typical with about 45 friends and I could care less if I'm interacting with them via FB. In fact I prefer blogging and commenting as we are doing here - that is *high quality* interaction! In fact I'll bet ONE BILLION of Mark's dollars that as soon as it's easy for him to socialize his own website via Open Social and have people flowing in and out easily, he'll be there more than he'll be at Facebook. it will effectively be in the driver’s seat as far as its 50 million users are concerned — regardless of what Google and its OpenSocial partners do

Matt I think this is a good summary and agree with Cuban about this part - it’s a point Don Dodge was also making about people not defecting from Facebook, and 100 million eyeballs is a lot. But it’s nothing like the billions of eyeballs at stake over the next few years.

It seems to me that a lack of loyalty is the deal here and there is little for any social network. Mark’s put a lot into Facebook (he has thousands of FB “friends”. I’m more typical with about 45 friends and I could care less if I’m interacting with them via FB. In fact I prefer blogging and commenting as we are doing here - that is *high quality* interaction!

In fact I’ll bet ONE BILLION of Mark’s dollars that as soon as it’s easy for him to socialize his own website via Open Social and have people flowing in and out easily, he’ll be there more than he’ll be at Facebook.

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