Actually, that was google and twitter that collaborated to set that up, not Facebook. Still extremely cool.
Facebook is playing the deepest level game out of Twitter, Apple and others. Google can't seem to execute and they're shooting blanks out of a shotgun. He who controls the social, controls the universe. (lame attempt at Dune reference). You control social, you control digital traffic, you control political sway, you control... the future of a lot of business and more. The reason Facebook wins is because they have harnessed social like no other and know how to upkeep the quality level of it. For an example of a rising business that is attempting a similar path but on a different social level, check out Quora vs. Yahoo Answers, Linkedin Answers, Google Answers etc.. One of the most recent and simplest ingenious additions to Facebook has been the Like button. When Facebook opens it up, it will have an ad network rivaling that of Google's. The other thing Facebook did is push out its payment partners and create a platform currency (copied btw, from Chinese/Korean SNS sites). Facebook can go in so many different avenues from here and it will be sick when it does.
Opps. The news ticker had it wrong. I thought it was a bit odd facebook had set this up and it seemed to be something google would do.
Google is worldwide. People use Google to get to Facebook. I'm sure even Facebook junkies have their homepage set to Google. Google is worldwide. Do you think Facebook is really as popular as Google all over the globe? You've got to be kidding me.
People still read Dvorak? He is consistently wrong. No, The first BBS was up in 1978 about a year before Compuserve and The Source. The Source and Compuserve did not morph into BBS systems, they were used and developed in parallel. Wrong again Dvorak. The internet predates BBS's by about a decade. The world wide web was developed in the early 90's. The internet explosion started around '93 with the first graphical browser. That ultimately led to the demise of other online services. In three consecutive sentences, the guy was wrong 3 times. These are easily verifiable facts. His opinions are just as useless.
