Jason Calacanis is founder of weblogs inc. which sold to AOL a few years back for something like $70million US. He was a true social media visionary and has gone on to create mahalo.com ‘human powered search’ which is a combo of wiki, yahoo answers and news aggregator – ask a question and offer $ for the best answer, this thing can do your coursework for you..
I have listened to what Jason says for about three years now, and in the last 12 or so months he has become increasingly vocal about things he does not agree with. One is Facebook. This is his latest email to his 22000 subscribers, it has some very interesting points:
Removed on request – if you want me to tell you what it said just ask me, or follow Jasons link in the comments below..
you can link here The Big Game, Zuckerberg and Overplaying your Hand http://bit.ly/9NvNkU
This is so true…People are creating fan pages on Facebook and then paying Facebook to send them traffic. Let me explain this one more time: You’re PAYINGMark Zuckerberg money to send traffic to HIS SITE. Think about it.Quite a full on article, but very enlightening.