When Paul and I are both up at 4:30am talking on IM, you know that something crazy is bound to happen. We decided to have a little fun since it’s humpday and all, so enjoy our 9rules Dance Contest. 🙂
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Facebook At 10 Figures
Rupert Murdoch got a deal when he bought MySpace for $580 million, because the next social site to be bought will be Facebook but it’s going to go for over a billion dollars.
There were rumors a few weeks ago about Facebook going after another round of venture capital funding with a high 9 figure valuation attached to it, but I can’t imagine why they’d need any more money. Facebook is still a smaller company, and their corporate-sponsored groups and advertising pull in the megabucks (from what I’ve heard.) I’ve heard from a few sources close to the company that they recently turned down an acquisition offer that was close to or right at $1 billion, and BusinessWeek’s latest article on Facebook puts a $750 million number on that rumor so my sources were pretty accurate.
Team Size and Individual Responsibilities
There are some people up in arms at Peter Merholtz’s blog, and those people feel that something Jason Fried wrote is attacking the profession of information architecture. Here’s the quote that’s bunching the pants:
“We’ll never hire someone who’s an information architect. It’s just
too overly specific. With a small team like ours, it doesn’t make
sense to hire people with such a narrowly defined skill-set.”
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LAUNCH: Kings Of A&R
It’s a real pleasure to finally unveil this site since Colin, Matto, and I worked so hard on it. Kings Of A&R is the music industry weblog to read if you want to learn about new bands, are a part of a band yourself, or are a record executive looking for the next big thing. Dean Cramer and crew have been running KOAR for awhile now, and he and his site are recognized as industry experts when talking about up and coming bands trying to make it big. It’s read by thousands of music industry big whigs everyday, so it was a great honor to be able to work on this site.
LAUNCH: Gnoos.com Teaser
Gnoos is a new Australian weblog search engine, and their teaser page (that I designed) just went live! Stay tuned for the real site coming soon 😉