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My friend Kara Swisher at All Things D has some juicy details from a recent all-hands meeting at a theatre near Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto. Apparently the shyness that Scoble remarked on when he met Mark Zuckerberg in Davos must have been a temporary thing, because it sounds like Marky Mar
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1 year ago
It will be hard to monetize all those page views for Facebook. Adwords works best when there is purchase intent demonstrated by the user who enter a query into Google, there is no such intent in Facebook - people go there to waste time. Only a radical new advertising (read: user tracking and profiling) scheme will do, and it's not Beacon.
Microsoft is probably overvaluing the strategic significance of Facebook anyway. With Facebook's recent decision give outside developers access to the social graph, it is no longer the walled garden Google couldn't penetrate.
And what on Earth are they planning to do with a 1000 employees? Google can afford the luxury of brainstorming and trying out new things, it has the Adwords cashcow to float it. Facebook's VC money is not exactly a reliable source of revenue.
1 year ago