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  On Facebook, Founders and Fascists 

  http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/datbus/article.php/3698581

  September 9, 2007 By Nicholas Carlson Reporter's Notebook: First, the good news. eMarketer reports that for the first time, online advertising will surpass radio advertising spending in the U.S. Of course, ... that's only good news if you're not in the radio business. But who's dumb enough to get into the radio business these days? One more Facebook founder? Add another alleged Facebook founder to the list. The New York Times has Harvard alumnus Aaron J. Greenspan saying he created a service for students called houseSYSTEM with a feature called "the Face Book" in 2003, six months before Facebook CEO and official founder Mark Zuckerburg launched thefacebook.com. According to Greenspan, some of Facebook's features were available on houseSYSTEM first, including birthday reminders, an event calendar, RSVPs, a user's link to someone, photo albums and course listings. Of course it's true what a developer friend of mine said after seeing the Times story posted to my Facebook profile. Whoever this   [More...] [Less...]

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  Tags:  facebook, web 2.0

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  BBC NEWS | Technology | 15 reasons Facebook may be worth $15bn 

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7061398.stm

  Microsoft has invested $240m ( 117m) in social networking site Facebook in exchange for a 1.6% share of the company. That puts a value of $15bn ( 7.3bn) on a firm that has only been in existence three ... and a half years. So why does Microsoft think Facebook is worth $15bn? Here are 15 possible reasons.... 1. The network has gone viral in the last 12 months, with more than 50 million users worldwide and a user base that is growing faster than great rival MySpace. According to Facebook, it adds 200,000 new users each day. 2. The average user spends 3.5 hours a month on Facebook - more than the average user on rival MySpace - which is increasingly attractive to advertisers. 3. Facebook is the current Web 2.0 darling - popular with ordinary users and "tech heads" alike. 4. US research reveals that Facebook users come from wealthier homes and are more likely to attend college than MySpace users - increasing that attraction for advertisers. 5. Microsoft's investment makes them a serious player   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 26 October 2007, by: Jakub Uradnik  [Report as spam]

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  Microsoft Word - social network reportv2.doc [pdf]

  http://www.wildbit.com/wildbit-sn-report.pdf

  Social Networks Research Report This report is the result of an in depth analysis on social networks for a web community project at Wildbit. The report aimed to discover how to ... attract members, define structure, influence participation, and manage the community in order to design the web site prototypes. The progress of this project will be posted occasionally on our blog. Please feel free to distribute this report as long as the credits to Wildbit remain attached. For questions, comments, or corrections please email Chris Nagele at cn@wildbit.com. This report can be downloaded on our blog at http://tidbit.wildbit.com Document version: 1.00 Change date: 07.25.05 © Copyright 2005 Wildbit, LLC. All rights reserved Worldwide. http://www.wildbit.com © Copyright Wildbit, LLC. All right reserved Worldwide. Please respect our rights. Feel free to reproduce the report, just don’t forg   [More...] [Less...]

  First added: 22 January 2008, by: Jutta Schrimpf  [Report as spam]

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  Tags:  research report, social networking, social networks, facebook, web 2.0