Microsoft wins the Facebook sweepstakes Mathew Ingram, Globe and Mail (Oct 24)
"... why wouldn't Microsoft take a gamble on the popular social network, which has 50 million users and is growing at triple-digit rates?" Indeed.
Microsoft takes slice of Facebook by Matt Hartley, Globe and Mail (Oct 24)
Forrester Research analyst Charlene Li said, "Facebook really represents the new computing platform for this new age of computing and I think any social application that is written in the future is going to have to take into account the Facebook model .."
Fact: "With more than 50 million monthly users, and 200,000 more joining up nearly every day, Facebook presents a growing audience for advertisers and could reach 300 million users".
I sense a bubble and there will be a pin that will burst it. Perhaps that will be boredom - Facebook runs its course as things do, or a scandal over privacy erupts. The second is quite possible if the points made in this YouTube video (posted as a comment to the Globe and Mail article) are true.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZMWz3G%5FgPhU
Posted by Gwen at October 25, 2007 11:16 AM