For now, Facebook’s got it going on
Posted in Commentary on September 15, 2009
For months I’ve been saying that Facebook is fast becoming most people’s home page on the Internet. From within Facebook, you can interact with your online social network, post links, videos, pictures, manage email and chat.
In the various social media presentations I’ve given we’ve reviewed demographics and talked about how Facebook by the numbers is the world’s fourth largest country.
It’s really a pretty remarkable story for a company that’s still struggling to figure out a profitable business model. But that’s a subject for a different blog.
Today SmartBrief on Social Media, one of my favorite email newsletters, linked to an article on GamesBeat about Vivox, a voice chat system for 15 million PC game players.
Guess what? Vivox is developing a Facebook application that will let you integrate voice conversations into your Facebook page.
So, if you didn’t believe me before — about Facebook becoming a person’s online home base — consider the ramifications of now carrying on phone conversations as part of your Facebook account.
Your Thoughts?
What do you think?
Will Facebook figure out a revenue model?
Will Facebook remain unchallenged as the social network of choice or will someone like Google, Yahoo or MSN be proprietors of the next great thing?
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