It can also mean, and I’m willing to bet this is the case, that they just don’t want to announce what those premium features will be just yet. I’m guessing that in order to get some funding they would need to provide some potential source of revenue coming from their product/service down the road.

Mike Lennon

Thanks for the support. Let me know if you have any questions about our product. My team is always around to help with any questions that you might have (http://chat.sometrics.com/).

““We may eventually add a few premium services”
That doesn’t sound like a sound plan for revenue to me, and since the company is underwritten by AT&T I don’t see an obvious sell out plan.”

Wisdom tells me to always listen to a person when they speak, it also tells me when to quit listening. When I read your above comment, It told me a lot about your knowledge in marketing. And no offense to your social network or even Facebook, but relying on a 1 trick pony, advertising, and only one form, in general, of adding value, ‘connecting with others’, won’t last and imo, is so granny panties. Social networks needs to push other streams of revenue other than advertising and give a more fulfilling value than just ‘connecting with your friends’ and I have solved that problem. web2.5 here I come and hopefully TechCrunch50.

Ian, keep up the good work, I’m going to have my team take a look at your new software.

No thanks for right now Ian.

“We may eventually add a few premium services”

That doesn’t sound like a sound plan for revenue to me, and since the company is underwritten by AT&T I don’t see an obvious sell out plan.

Good luck though. Again, I am going to mod webalizer to spit out social specific data as an internal project. I am upset about even using Google’s 3rd party services.

I do understand about the excitement about LA tech startups as I own one, but I am still going to look at the details of a project, whether it’s in LA or China.

No obvious revenue streams + backed by AT&T = suspicious

I’m sure you can see why.

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@Jesse

Thanks for your support the past 6 months. The whole team appreciates the kind words.

@WiredMike

Social apps developers are a great group to work with. We feel fortunate to be part of this rapidly growing and exciting world of social media. Social analytics is a new concept and we take pride in adding value for all of our users.

– Mike

Alex

http://twitter.com/TechCrunch/statuses/811661071

I am one of the founders of Sometrics and wanted to let you know that our business model does not include any smoke and mirror tactics. Sometrics is very sensitive to client data and truly feel that it is their information. Our company is not in the business of selling client data to third parties. We may eventually add a few premium services, but our standard analytics product will always remain free of charge. I’m always available to answer any further questions that you might have… maybe over lunch if you are located in LA.

@SiliconCalley

Thanks for the love

LA thanks you for your support

A service that only operates to provide metrics however can not effectively do what Google does. They either have to be part of a larger puzzle, or they have to make money by selling data.

As superfluous as these web 2.0 companies that cross the front page at tech crunch seem I must say there are ruthless dictators sitting behind the curtain of oz that WILL make money with the data.
Money you could have made if you were smarter.

That is the “open web”. The nexus points are making mad cash off your hard work.

I just feel it right to let people know.