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“The posts “nearly killed my business,” said Kridech, a native of France who has worked in the food industry for 25 years and spent $150,000 revamping the Senses space. “Everyone has become a food critic. They think they’re real big shots. They probably c

“By and large, the easiest way to charge extra for something abstract is to attach it to something concrete. That is why, for instance, a pub with a nice view will charge more for the beer – it doesn’t sell beer at standard prices and then add on the view

“The balancing act between revenue and membership growth may wipe out “the niche player aura that made the sites attractive in the first place.”

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“The San Jose networking company has just acquired Five Across, a San Francisco company that builds social networks for companies to connect with their customers or fans. The purchase price is undisclosed, but the company only employed 11 people.”

“In addition, the firm has resisted the tendency (which some lawyers or HR professionals have) to create a 10-page blogging policy which would scare people from blogging in the first place.”

“Content is different from software. Software does stuff, and that’s something objective that either works or doesn’t work. So you can take software and make it work better. By contrast, content expresses ideas, and people just might not want to start

“there are two fundamental activities online – Search and Browse. When a consumer knows exactly what she is looking for, she searches for it. But when she is not looking for anything specific, she browses. It is the browsing that holds the golden opportun

“To businesses, the value of social networks lies more in their roles as a medium for advertising and a repository of marketing data than in their role as a place to develop some kind of communal relationship with buyers.”