{"id":113,"date":"2009-10-18T10:52:31","date_gmt":"2009-10-18T17:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/2009\/10\/the-hotmail-story-is-interesting-because\/"},"modified":"2009-10-18T10:52:31","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T17:52:31","slug":"the-hotmail-story-is-interesting-because","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/the-hotmail-story-is-interesting-because\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hotmail story is interesting because…"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Hotmail story is interesting because the viral loop doesn’t increase the value of the network, but does increase it’s marketing reach. For instance, with Facebook, Metcalfe’s law is clear, whereas with Hotmail, the platform is email, not just Hotmail. And since the links reach people who are already on email, it doesn’t really grow the network size of email users. <\/p>\n

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The Hotmail story is interesting because the viral loop doesn’t increase the value of the network, but does increase it’s marketing reach. For instance, with Facebook, Metcalfe’s law is clear, whereas with Hotmail, the platform is email, not just Hotmail. And since the links reach people who are already on email, it doesn’t really grow … Continue reading The Hotmail story is interesting because…<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techspill.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}