How Did Facebook Happen?
You know something’s beyond super red-hot when it becomes a verb or noun. “Pass me a Kleenex” or “Just Google It” or “I’ll Blackberry You Later”. Well, Facebook is becoming a verb, a noun, an adjective, etc. It seems everyone now has a Facebook account or is being pressured into getting one if you want to hang out with the cool kids. But how it did it happen? Is Mark Zuckerberg a genius, or the luckiest guy on earth other than Sergey Bryn, Larry Page and Mark Cuban. And as Facebook grows, could MySpace be the next Friendster? Do you think Rupert Murdoch has a Facebook account?
You want to hear some staggering Facebook numbers that came out of a jammed-packed, dot-com like press conference in San Francisco earlier today?
Facebook is growing by 100,000 new users a day, 50% of registered users come back every day, the service generates 40 billion page view a month (or 50 pages per user every day); it’s not the sixth-most popular site in the U.S.
Facebook is a online tidal wave flowing through cyberspace. Some people are suggesting it’s becoming the social networking OS as it launches Facebook Platform, which will allow other applications to tie into the Facebook landscape. Unreal, baby, unreal.
May 24th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
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.
May 26th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
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May 27th, 2007 at 4:09 am
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.