{"id":1846,"date":"2007-10-24T20:47:49","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T00:47:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/10\/24\/facebook-conference-call-notes\/"},"modified":"2007-10-24T20:47:49","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T00:47:49","slug":"facebook-conference-call-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/10\/24\/facebook-conference-call-notes\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook: Conference call notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to post some of my notes from the Microsoft\/Facebook conference call, and then I decided to search the blogosphere first, and decided that my notes aren&#8217;t really going to bring anything to the table. I already knew that Allen Stern of Centernetworks was live-blogging, because I saw his Twitter updates &#8212; which he wanted to post to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centernetworks.com\/microsoft-facebook-press-conference\">his blog<\/a> but couldn&#8217;t &#8212; and then later I came across Mike Arrington&#8217;s live notes from the call <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/10\/24\/liveblogging-the-facebook-press-conference\/\">as well<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>On top of that, there are some pretty good notes at the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com\/techtracks\/archives\/2007\/10\/microsoftfacebook_deal_highlights.html\">Seattle Times<\/a>, at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paidcontent.org\/entry\/419-live-civerage-microsoft-facebook-conference-call-on-the-investment-deal\/\">PaidContent<\/a> and by Adam Ostrow at <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2007\/10\/24\/microsoft-facebook\/\">Mashable<\/a>, and my pal Om Malik did some <a href=\"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/2007\/10\/24\/facebook-and-microsoft-bff-for-240-million\/\">as well<\/a>. It seems as though any competitive advantage that listening to conference calls might once have provided is pretty much gone now  \ud83d\ude42 I would echo the points made by Rafat and others: the call contained virtually nothing of any substance, and in fact no direct answers whatsoever. Lots of &#8220;win-win-win&#8221;-type talk from Kevin Johnson of Microsoft though, who really needs to stop yelling.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to post some of my notes from the Microsoft\/Facebook conference call, and then I decided to search the blogosphere first, and decided that my notes aren&#8217;t really going to bring anything to the table. I already knew that Allen Stern of Centernetworks was live-blogging, because I saw his Twitter updates &#8212; which &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/10\/24\/facebook-conference-call-notes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Facebook: Conference call notes&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}