everyone says these guys are smart, but the reality is myspace is declining, declining fast…we wouldn’t even think of myspace in one/two years…just like how we forgot yahoo to do search things!!

What does this mean? Do you foolishly think that if you put “my” in front of a URL you have cracked the code on genius?

So, if I put “my” in front of Facebook, it would be more useful. How about MyGoogle? Or I know, maybe MyMapquest.

Now you’ve done it! Each of these services now makes sense. Thank you so much yet another brilliant post.

Now go away, idiot.

240 + 10 + 20 = 270, 180 – 270 = (90)

Hmmm

All you do is create an echo chamber and increase your chances of achieving failure.

Get a product out there asap, incorporate a customer feedback loop and run with it.

A talented team like this should have no problems leveraging this approach.

choosing the rigt domain name may be the most important decision they will make. we all know the power of “My”. personalized natural language url location.

maybe i take myspac for granite but i dont see alot of creativity from the site. i did notice the creative ad financing payments from Googl.

it is very late in the game to launch a startup period. the market is bear and flooded. the end of digital media innovation is here (twitter anyone?). we dont need another startup or website for anything. we have enough to work with. the current opportunity is in niche channel natural language social location and discovery. 3 guys and the right social media platform and the skys the limit.

TeamLocator.com – assembly required

Why filler? Because they know that the 20% that is interesting will carry the 80% that is ho-hum. This isn’t about being interesting, it is about driving pageviews and selling advertising.

So, TC has 12 ads on this page. Some are probably CPM, some are probably fixed price. Let’s assume a blanket CPM of $5.

$5 CPM * 12 ads on page = $60 Aggregate CPM

This article already has 30 comments. Assume that readers outnumber commenters 100:1. This means 3000 readers.

3000 pageviews * $60 CPM = $180

Jason is a good writer and is probably paid decently….let’s say $60k/year or about $30/hr. Let’s give him the benefit of the doubt and say it took an hour to write -> $30. Tack on another $10 for infrastructure and another $20 for other overhead.

$30 + $10 + $20 = $60 cost

$120 profit on a $60 investment with almost immediate payback sounds pretty damn good to me in this economy.

Even assuming I’m off by 50% on my ad estimates, we’re still talking $30 profit on $60 investment. Even that isn’t too shabby.

While as a reader, I hate it, I have to admit that I would certainly be favoring volume over quality too. This is exactly the problem when blogs try to become big business…they do it at the expense of their readers time and attention.

Just my $.02.

If you are building an anti-gravity device, fine. If you are building yet another social network/real-time search/vanity microblogging service, then your super-secret mode is a bunch of bullshit so get real and cut out the “we’re so cool because we’re *stealthy* crap.

As the first poster said, there are probably 100 startups that send you press releases every day that actually have a product that don’t get covered.

So I’d really like to know what your criteria is to get covered and featured beyond just being a Tech Insider.

These kind of posts doesn’t do anyone any good, the old adage first impressions are important, I would have no further interest in anything this company has to offer because their “website” is pretty crappy.