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Facebook’s Big Bet
Facebook’s Big Bet
Yesteday at Web 2.0 Summit, Mark Zuckerberg sat on stage and told John Battelle that the future of Facebook lies in advertising, when responding to the question of how Facebook is going to make money from Connect. In other words, Facebook has a future in advertising outside of their ...
A Rush for Mobile
blog.facebook.com — When we recently added the ability to comment on your friends' status updates to the Facebook mobile site, we didn't expect that we would receive nearly a million status comments in the first 24 hours. This may not seem like much, but it was ... (more) A Rush for Mobile
Zuckerberg's Law of Information Sharing
Zuckerberg's Law of Information Sharing
bits.blogs.nytimes.com — Every year, people are sharing twice as much information as the previous year, says Facebook C.E.O. Mark Zuckerberg. (more) Zuckerberg's Law of Information Sharing
Oh, dear, here come the 'Facebook to buy Twitter' rumors | Webware : Cool Web apps for everyone
news.cnet.com — SAN FRANCISCO--John Battelle, CEO of Federated Media, decided to have a little bit of speculative fun onstage Thursday with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg at the Web 2.0 Summit. It's the sort of "speculative fun" that could give tech bloggers a ... (more) Oh, dear, here come the 'Facebook to buy Twitter' rumors ...
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DeWolfe: We’re More Focused on Creating a Business
SocialTimes.com — ... According to one person I spoke with at the MySpace party last night in San Francisco, the company is now actively pursuing publishers to partner with on the MySpace ad platform. Just as I wrote this morning on AllFacebook, users will be cookied and targeted based on profile information they provided on MySpace. This emphasizes that MySpace is not sitting by and waiting for the open web to take place, they are trying to take advantage of it now. ...

Revenue search continues, as Facebook (and LinkedIn) employee stock sale begins
VentureBeat — ... Even if Facebook makes that $265 million this year, it does not mean shares in the company are a lot closer to worthless. It has been holding operating costs down as it prepares for the long haul, we’ve heard, through doing things like building its own servers. Meanwhile, as the blog AllFacebook recently examined in detail, Facebook may be rolling out a targeted ad service that works across the web. ...

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