Does that add a billion dollars to the price tag? In the latter case, Facebook now has two of the Firefox geeks on board. So on valuation, does it seem that Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg was right to turn down Yahoo's $1bn? Valuations can be based on predicted revenue, as Yahoo did, user numbers (which at the YouTube acquisition rate would put Facebook at $2.6bn) or, Valleywag's Owen Thomas suggested today, in terms of developers. Its impact on email services is also interesting because Facebook email is replacing conventional email, but at the same time driving traffic because it sends a notification. I wrote about Facebook today: London is now the biggest network and is seeing double the growth of the rest of the site at 6%. At least until we all get a bit claustrophobic inside that walled garden, or something better comes long. ![]() Like my Moo party guy said, it could be where the internet ends. If you can bring in a widget to do everything you need online within one site, why would you ever need to go anywhere else? It's quite a vision. The acquisition of Parakey will feed Facebook's ambitions of being the internet inside itself. Now my blog, and your comments, are showing up on my Facebook Profile Page. "I added the Wordpress Facebook Application a few days ago. Robert Scoble blogged about this yesterday, noting how we're all being sucked into the Facebook black hole. You can add a widget to pull in news feeds from elsewhere, your Flickr feed and all manner of other information on the web from dogs that need adopting (guilty, occifer) to film reviews. ![]() What he means is that one you've put information into Facebook, it's very hard to get it out again.
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