tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1193110888000243108.post7815088572784883512..comments2024-02-29T18:20:22.736+00:00Comments on Press 2.0: UK Facebook at saturation pointHaydenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01294002314572089407noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1193110888000243108.post-61979208239766494342010-08-27T13:35:34.536+01:002010-08-27T13:35:34.536+01:00Niall
Thanks for the feedback.
Yes, we may well se...Niall<br />Thanks for the feedback.<br />Yes, we may well see Facebook buy up someone like Dopplr (or just create their own version) to get into the crowd-sourced travel market arena.<br />There's also the group buying concept (The Bank of Facebook) put forward by Thomas Power http://goo.gl/PITN which could be a very powerful area for them to develop.Hayden Sutherlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05856244651310633376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1193110888000243108.post-2220565252970764162010-08-27T13:22:33.112+01:002010-08-27T13:22:33.112+01:00Great post Hayden. One thing that I have thought a...Great post Hayden. One thing that I have thought about since my original post is the potential for Facebook to do something more sophisticated with planning trips / holidays and offline recommendations in general. It strikes me that it is a natural evolution of the core proposition to emulate / buy-into a TripIt-style crowd-sourcing model...and possibly another revenue stream (i.e. kick-backs from tourism players).Niall O'Malleyhttp://attentionbubble.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1193110888000243108.post-20054801984204773652010-08-26T16:06:42.242+01:002010-08-26T16:06:42.242+01:00Tristan
Not necessarily.
Just because 25 million...Tristan<br /><br />Not necessarily. <br />Just because 25 million UK people are Facebook users, you shouldn’t assume that’s a general representation of the UK population (it is only approx 40% of the total number). However, if you take it that 70% of households in 2009 had Internet access and this hasn’t changed:<br />http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/nugget.asp?id=8<br />… then you can say that Facebook stats are a more realistic view of those people as around 88% of them have a Facebook account.<br /><br />Hoping this makes sense<br /><br />HaydenHayden Sutherlandhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05856244651310633376noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1193110888000243108.post-27043227624827806322010-08-26T15:16:45.221+01:002010-08-26T15:16:45.221+01:00does that mean if you use the FaceBook advertising...does that mean if you use the FaceBook advertising segmentation tool, you are almost getting a accurate live marketing dataset of the UK?Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02259239222145337723noreply@blogger.com