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Hmm.. Possible? Facebook for $6,000,000,000?

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  • R Raj Lal

    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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    MatthysDT
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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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    • R Rocky Moore

      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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      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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      • R Rocky Moore

        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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        nardev82
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        WTF is facebook anyways! I must be an ignorant! :D

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        • R Rocky Moore

          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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          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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          • R Rocky Moore

            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/[^]

            Rocky <>< Latest Code Blog Post: Linq - One-to-One issues? Latest Tech Blog Post: You got to see this - Seadragon and Photosynth!

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            Brent Lamborn
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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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            • W W Balboos GHB

              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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              Brent Lamborn
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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.

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              • W W Balboos GHB

                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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                Ware Work
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                Go for the games!

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                • B Brent Lamborn

                  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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                  > 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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                  • D David Cunningham

                    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

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                    Rocky Moore
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                    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.

                    Rocky <>< Latest Code Blog Post: Linq - One-to-One issues? Latest Tech Blog Post: You got to see this - Seadragon and Photosynth!

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                    • B Brent Lamborn

                      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.


                      "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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                      Well, I think Popfly has another target in mind: 1) Get everyone using Silverlight or at least have it installed 2) Get everyone to use the modules in their websites, regardless of type, thus fulfilling (1) I could have it wrong, but that looks like the obvious results of Popfly.

                      Rocky <>< Latest Code Blog Post: Linq - One-to-One issues? Latest Tech Blog Post: You got to see this - Seadragon and Photosynth!

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