Comments on: How Did Facebook Happen? http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/05/24/how-did-facebook-happen/ Insight and Analysis from North of the Border Tue, 02 Dec 2008 01:50:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Mark http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/05/24/how-did-facebook-happen/#comment-5475 Mark Sun, 27 May 2007 08:09:12 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/05/24/how-did-facebook-happen/#comment-5475 With these numbers, it's just a matter of time for us to hear of a new billion dollar acquisition. Will it be Yahoo turn thit time? Or will Google step in and increase its dominance of the web? But all aside...This is now the holygrail of highschool and college students. With their recently opening their platform to developers, I think the near future will witness the phenomenon that will take FaceBook to one of the top 3 web properties. So acquisition time is now before this becomes too expensive even for the big players. With these numbers, it’s just a matter of time for us to hear of a new billion dollar acquisition. Will it be Yahoo turn thit time? Or will Google step in and increase its dominance of the web?

But all aside…This is now the holygrail of highschool and college students. With their recently opening their platform to developers, I think the near future will witness the phenomenon that will take FaceBook to one of the top 3 web properties. So acquisition time is now before this becomes too expensive even for the big players.

]]> By: Nobody Voting? « Chief Outhouse Correspondent http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/05/24/how-did-facebook-happen/#comment-5470 Nobody Voting? « Chief Outhouse Correspondent Sat, 26 May 2007 19:05:49 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/05/24/how-did-facebook-happen/#comment-5470 [...] on May 26th, 2007. Found the following on Mark Evans’ Blog. I keep reading about younger generations not interested in voting. The following excerpt from Mark [...] [...] on May 26th, 2007. Found the following on Mark Evans’ Blog. I keep reading about younger generations not interested in voting. The following excerpt from Mark [...]

]]> By: Duane Brown http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/05/24/how-did-facebook-happen/#comment-5463 Duane Brown Fri, 25 May 2007 02:07:00 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/05/24/how-did-facebook-happen/#comment-5463 I think Facebook's success is partly due to the fact that it was a useful service and relevant to the initial target market, us college/university types. Mark is one of us, so I think that helped more then anything when you know your demographic better then anyone else. A lot of people launch sites and products going after the 18-24 market and don't make it relevant or useful and then they wonder why it never took off. Mark carved out a super niche and build it up from there. I think it was HotJobs back in the day that just went after tech workers looking for jobs and then expanded from there until Yahoo bought them out. Now 10% of Facebook users are Canadian, not sure why that is but I guess we are just a friendly bunch after all. I think Facebook’s success is partly due to the fact that it was a useful service and relevant to the initial target market, us college/university types. Mark is one of us, so I think that helped more then anything when you know your demographic better then anyone else. A lot of people launch sites and products going after the 18-24 market and don’t make it relevant or useful and then they wonder why it never took off. Mark carved out a super niche and build it up from there. I think it was HotJobs back in the day that just went after tech workers looking for jobs and then expanded from there until Yahoo bought them out. Now 10% of Facebook users are Canadian, not sure why that is but I guess we are just a friendly bunch after all.

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