Facebook taking a turn

With todays deal of $240 million with Microsoft, facebook is taking a turn. Facebook value has openly come to the market which is $15 billion. This itself makes a good ground for facbook towards IPO. The deal amount should be enough to move to the next phase. Their has been tremendous amount of write ups for the last two months and also new moveups from facebook and this stake was expected, but was not sure with hom it will happen.
Here Microsoft gets a good exposure back to the market on Social Networking and could build some confidence among the communities. But this may not stop or slow down of Googles's plans for Novemeber to reveal

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Flock 1.0 for the rescue

Flock 1.0 has come for our rescue. We could blog straight from the browser. Open up all the social networking related sites and keep us updated rather than moving around in tabs or windows. I am sure this will get a good acceptance in the community. I have been a flock user, but with 1.0 release it has moved to a matured state.This blog i am using the flock blog and its working. I am sure Firefox will bring this utilities soon so that they can compete in the market.

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Another Google Day

Google has come up with its results and had done with the expectations.

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Is it Yahoo, Google, MySpace or Facebook

Who is running the show and what steps has been taken to be in the market for another ten years. Yahoo i believe has to come out of the 90's loop and move ahead with the current trend and attract users and advertisers. Search has to match with Google or above. Mr. Yang couldn't answer the question in the NY Times article.

Google on the other hand is quickly responding to the user community needs and trend. We saw yesterday about Urchins call coming live (even though its expensive. Facebook, of course had made the impact. But for how long and how it competes with my space.

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TokBox Google YouTube

TokBox a new chapter related to online video. Is it a break from You tube. Not really but, an usable way of the technology. And its been introduced by ex Google/You tube guys as per this article in NY Times. During my testing i couldn't find the embedded feature built in and hopefully it should be coming up , so that it can be embedded to any website. Its a great application without doubt which can be used, but what is the revenue model for this ?

TokBox had a review in TechCrunch's edition. What is your thoughts on this new product. Write your comments. Hopefully i should have TokBox embedded in my blog soon.

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Facebook Usage Different Reports - Lets face the reality !

Today morning we have different reports on the usage of Facebook partial reported by comscore on the main blogs and news. Mashable reports (http://mashable.com/2007/10/11/facebook-comscore)
a 9.3% decline in total unique visitors in August and September.

Om Mailik reports in a different way (http://gigaom.com/2007/10/11/facebook-dip-seasonal)
So what's the reality ?
Is their a actual user decline in facebook or usage of Social Networking sites. The truth is that new and new SN applications are hitting the market and users are subscribing to it and get lost in the path. So who are the actual users. Trend should be clear. One thing is sure, the business community is being able to gain and use face book more to their advantage. But for how long !

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Googles another venture Social Networking

This article (Google article )was interesting, Google is fast pacing into the social networking world, which it has already a presence with Orkut. The article explores the other players on board also.

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Another Niche Site Launching

Zolve is a Social Network for the real estate industry. Brokers and other real-estate professionals (like title insurance agents, inspectors, etc.) across the country will be able to create profiles on Zolve and connect to their professional peers across the country. By clicking on their “sphere”of influence, they will be able to see every other Zolve member on a Google Map who is connected to them by two degrees of separation. The whole point of the site is to generate referrals between real-estate professionals. A broker can get 25 to 30 percent of a commission if she refers a customer to another broker. This is done all the time within the industry, especially if a potential home buyer is looking outside the first broker’s immediate geographical area of expertise. For example, a broker in San Mateo might sends business to another broker in Denver,and collect a referral fee of a few thousand dollars if the customer ends up buying a property there.

Brokers will be able to establish their real-estate cred by blogging on their profile pages. Each transaction also generates a reputation score similar to eBay’s. (Not only can the brokers vote on each other’s reputations, but so can the home buyers or other customers involved). By automating such referrals, founder Brian Wilson thinks that he can create a system where real estate professionals can tap into each others’ detailed knowledge of their own markets to counter the Zillows of the world.

Other companies in the real estate space include Zillow and Redfin.

Article taken from :http://www.crunchbase.com/company/zolve

Is it a bubble

People have already started speaking about the web 2.0 bubble. I don't understand that. Its too early. Their are still tremendous opportunities to tap in and thats whats happening. It has not reached its maturity. i was reading this article this morning and i couldn't agree to it ( http://blog.pmarca.com/2007/10/ok-youre-right-.html ) . Write your thoughts on it.

Social networking boom

We are seeing the start of IPOs for web 2.0 application. This reminds of the internet boom age, Y2K age and the bubble. Are we ready for it or is the market matured enough. Even the corporate mood for social networking has changed and that is reflected in social networking sites like Linkedin , Facebook being started using by this corporation. What does this mean for a normal person. Will he be using it now or in the near future. Its for sure in one way or the other he will be dragged to use it.

Watch and see it.