Facebook finally launches social deal

Refer to this link: http://gigaom.com/2011/04/15/how-facebook-can-beat-groupon-by-making-deals-social/.
Just as I expected in my last Dec.'s post, I thought Groupon is an easy to duplicate model, and should join Fackbook instead of being bought by google or going independent IPO. Now it seems it's missing this opportunity as Facebook already started its own social deal. The deal sharing within a social context would be more effective: anyway, friends often have similar interest and taste, and recommendations from friends are automatically including trust and reputation mechanisms. As long as Facebook doesn't make stupid mistakes in the future, Groupon will be in big trouble.

Amazing work of object tracking!

Can't wait for new products adopting this technique!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GhNXHCQGsM

IPv4 addresses finally run out

2^32, and finally all used up. We're in a new era.

Groupon Turns Down Google’s Takeover Bid

6 billion, and Groupon says NO. I think for Google it maybe a good thing. But for Groupon, it says it's considering staying independent for an IPO. I really doubt about this 6-billion decision, and its growth estimation as an independent company, considering its eas-to-replicate model, and loose ads connection with "Local" business. I still think they should go with Facebook.

Google to buy Groupon?

Words came out these days that google is going to buy Groupon. Some analysis about this basically suggests that it can integrate the Groupon ads into its search results, youtube videos etc. It's kind of a surprise to me as I had thought facebook would be the final buyer, especially as facebook is putting special effort into location based services. It also looked to me promising as Groupon is essentially a collective buying site, and if integrated with facebook's socail model, it's easy to add recommendation/reputation context on that. Maybe facebook is doing that by their own? Anyway, let's seat and see how things will be going.