Hmm.. Possible? Facebook for $6,000,000,000?
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Microsoft may buy Facebook? Guess I should start looking at Facebook, I dismissed it as another myspace... http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2007/07/11/facebook-rumor-microsoft-to-buy-it-for-6-billion/[^]
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It's a great site. It's bone simple, but integrates the concepts of email, IM, and, well classmates.com. Most of the connections I've made through it have been old friends from elementry school, highschool and Uni. Having trouble understanding the business critical need though. Is someone going to pay $10 a month for facebook? Maybe, but I can't see it. Linkedin.com I think however is poised to go ballistic. All business, crucial almost to business networking, 11M people signed up a real case for spending $20-$200 a month, and it's run by all the same folks that brought you PayPal.
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Microsoft may buy Facebook? Guess I should start looking at Facebook, I dismissed it as another myspace... http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2007/07/11/facebook-rumor-microsoft-to-buy-it-for-6-billion/[^]
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My friends have been using Facebook for quite some time, but I only signed up recently. It's very addictive if I might say :) I have not used MySpace, but I have a Hi5 account, and I don't know why, but Facebook is much better. Maybe it's because it has a very simple interface. However, $6 billion seems like a lot for me. Skype was worth $4.3 and I think it is much better business-speaking (better technology).
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Luis Alonso Ramos wrote:
Skype was worth $4.3 and I think it is much better business-speaking (better technology).
Since when does having good technology have anything to do with anything? :doh: This is Microsoft, who have huge amounts of cash in the bank, looking to buy up companies, price be damned, because they're desperately trying not to get left behind (and they don't want Google nor Yahoo to get them) :rolleyes:
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Microsoft may buy Facebook? Guess I should start looking at Facebook, I dismissed it as another myspace... http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2007/07/11/facebook-rumor-microsoft-to-buy-it-for-6-billion/[^]
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Six BILLION dollars for facebook?!?!?! Somehow this[^] just seems fitting...
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Luis Alonso Ramos wrote:
Skype was worth $4.3 and I think it is much better business-speaking (better technology).
Since when does having good technology have anything to do with anything? :doh: This is Microsoft, who have huge amounts of cash in the bank, looking to buy up companies, price be damned, because they're desperately trying not to get left behind (and they don't want Google nor Yahoo to get them) :rolleyes:
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Yes, you have a point. But still, they wouldn't spend $6 billion just because (and if yes, heeey here is my company, give me $3B :rolleyes:) But seriously speaking, what they are buying here is the traffic generated by millions and millions of users. I think Google already has a lot of traffic, and buying Facebook would give MS some more they can later use for advertising, search or whatever it pleases them.
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Microsoft may buy Facebook? Guess I should start looking at Facebook, I dismissed it as another myspace... http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2007/07/11/facebook-rumor-microsoft-to-buy-it-for-6-billion/[^]
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Facebook is a social utility that connects you with the people around you. Sounds a lot like a Lounge to me. :-D Never used Facebook, but does sound very MySpace-ish, and right now MySpace (after the kid was born) is the bathroom. :-)
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So, the Windows Live Network now also features a Social Networking Community. :)
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Six BILLION dollars for facebook?!?!?! Somehow this[^] just seems fitting...
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Heh. Consider that a mainstream broadcaster (lets pick NBC, for instance) typically has a captive audience of less than 10 million at any given time (except for their really popular shows). What are they worth? At least 6 bil, I would think. Facebook has a captive audience just as big, if not bigger and a lot of them are in that all-important 18-30 demographic. Advertisers dream, I think. Cheers, Drew.
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Every company in new york, wants to integrate there web app. with FaceBook, i guess it won't be a bad decision on MS side to buy it. FaceBook definetly has a rich set of OPEN Web API's to develop on that.
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Microsoft may buy Facebook? Guess I should start looking at Facebook, I dismissed it as another myspace... http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2007/07/11/facebook-rumor-microsoft-to-buy-it-for-6-billion/[^]
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A blog post linked to a rumor on a blog post linked to . . ., etc. Lots of people wonder why Facebook is valued so highly. The simple fact is that it's an advertiser's wet dream - you have tens of millions of people who have created excruciatingly detailed demographic profiles of themselves, so with the right advertising you can achieve an unimaginably high click-through rate. That said, MS is in the market of creating search and advertising platforms, not necessarily in the actual market data itself. They would only have to partner with Facebook - and I believe they have - in order to deploy their systems on the Facebook network. A buyout isn't necessary or even practical considering that they don't actually need the demographic data. And now I'm off to leave random notes on my friends' Facebook walls. And when I wake up in the morning, the acquisition will have gone through because all of my predictions fail horribly. :)
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Every company in new york, wants to integrate there web app. with FaceBook, i guess it won't be a bad decision on MS side to buy it. FaceBook definetly has a rich set of OPEN Web API's to develop on that.
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I've been using FB for a month :suss: Through FB I made contact with tons of old friends from school and university, even primary school! It's like a NamesDatabase on steroids. For me, applications are the single most irritating things FaceBook has to offer. Some of them are o.k, then you get 20 invitations per week to join SuperPoke, or SuperWall, FoodFight, or WHATEVER! Take away the useless apps, or at least add an option to choose not to receive the dumbass invites, then FaceBook is brilliant!
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Their selling?? I bid $7,000,000,000!!!! -- modified at 5:55 Friday 13th July, 2007 Popular-website-rejects-Gay-surname[^]:laugh: . .
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I've never had an account on MySpace, Facebook, or anything like it. Haven't ever even bid for anything on e-Bay. That kind of free time has eluded me for years. I did play Epyx Rogue for 5 years and won - but it was so long ago. But, just suppose I suddenly come into copious quantites of time (which everyone else seems to have) which I need to pass in some amusing manner. Would I be better off with a good first-person D&D RPG, like Might & Magic and Swords of Glass, or would I be better off with online Social Networking within an extraordinarily large gaggle of on-line personalities, untold legionss of which are mere Chimeras of the lonely? Is there a difference? Does it matter if there is? Should I compromise, and diligently post to the Lounge until I break 1000 messages? What Would Dubya Do?
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Microsoft may buy Facebook? Guess I should start looking at Facebook, I dismissed it as another myspace... http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2007/07/11/facebook-rumor-microsoft-to-buy-it-for-6-billion/[^]
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What? I thought Popfly[^]was going to be their Facebook. I Guess Popfly is probably too technical for the masses. Maybe they are looking to dumb it down by mixing it with Facebook? I hope not. Fark! Why don't people just create their own .com instead of using these lame sites.
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I've never had an account on MySpace, Facebook, or anything like it. Haven't ever even bid for anything on e-Bay. That kind of free time has eluded me for years. I did play Epyx Rogue for 5 years and won - but it was so long ago. But, just suppose I suddenly come into copious quantites of time (which everyone else seems to have) which I need to pass in some amusing manner. Would I be better off with a good first-person D&D RPG, like Might & Magic and Swords of Glass, or would I be better off with online Social Networking within an extraordinarily large gaggle of on-line personalities, untold legionss of which are mere Chimeras of the lonely? Is there a difference? Does it matter if there is? Should I compromise, and diligently post to the Lounge until I break 1000 messages? What Would Dubya Do?
"Lions and Tigers and Bears - Oh My!"
If you had huge amounts of time to spend on mind numbing online play, you'd wanna check out OnSlaught2[^] . That'd take care of your spare time problems.
"Half this game is ninety percent mental." - Yogi Berra If you can read thank a teacher, if you can read in English, thank a Marine.
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I've never had an account on MySpace, Facebook, or anything like it. Haven't ever even bid for anything on e-Bay. That kind of free time has eluded me for years. I did play Epyx Rogue for 5 years and won - but it was so long ago. But, just suppose I suddenly come into copious quantites of time (which everyone else seems to have) which I need to pass in some amusing manner. Would I be better off with a good first-person D&D RPG, like Might & Magic and Swords of Glass, or would I be better off with online Social Networking within an extraordinarily large gaggle of on-line personalities, untold legionss of which are mere Chimeras of the lonely? Is there a difference? Does it matter if there is? Should I compromise, and diligently post to the Lounge until I break 1000 messages? What Would Dubya Do?
"Lions and Tigers and Bears - Oh My!"
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If you had huge amounts of time to spend on mind numbing online play, you'd wanna check out OnSlaught2[^] . That'd take care of your spare time problems.
"Half this game is ninety percent mental." - Yogi Berra If you can read thank a teacher, if you can read in English, thank a Marine.
> If you had huge amounts of time to spend on mind numbing online play, you'd wanna check out OnSlaught2[^] . That'd take care of your spare time problems I hadn't considered on-line play. That seems a hybrid between the escape of the (first-person) RPG and these social sites. Or is it a takeover attempt? I'm becoming just a wee bit frightened. Be of stout heart, I say! I copied the link and emailed it to myself. Oh, Brave New World! WWDS?
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It's a great site. It's bone simple, but integrates the concepts of email, IM, and, well classmates.com. Most of the connections I've made through it have been old friends from elementry school, highschool and Uni. Having trouble understanding the business critical need though. Is someone going to pay $10 a month for facebook? Maybe, but I can't see it. Linkedin.com I think however is poised to go ballistic. All business, crucial almost to business networking, 11M people signed up a real case for spending $20-$200 a month, and it's run by all the same folks that brought you PayPal.
David
LinkedIn is another one I just do not understand. Does not seem like anything special to me, I have an account, but I have only been there once.
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