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me — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 10:22:52 -0000

lol.

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jas — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 04:12:00 -0000

You may be able to knock up a clone in a couple of months but getting the traffic,members and traction is another story my friend !!

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Nell — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 03:47:57 -0000

Forget Facebook, www.B4UParty.com is the new way forward

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Adam Hirsch — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 21:50:49 -0000

I think Mark Z has made it clear that they are their own entity and not looking to sell. Now Microsoft is only looking for a 5% stake, but perhaps Yahoo is smarter and looking for a more unique strategy?? My guess is some sort of integration with Yahoo! services or even MyYahoo.

- Adam Hirsch, Mashable.com

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Cameron Chapman — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:29:48 -0000

From what I have heard, Mark Zuckerberg has no intentions of selling out to anyone. His goal is to BE the next Google, not be bought out by them or any of their competitors. I think that it's unlikely that they're going to budge on that, at least in the immediate future. They've turned down buy-out offers in the past, and I don't see that anything has changed to make them reconsider at this point.

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Sean P. Aune — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:54:49 -0000

It's not just you, Douglas. I would love to see detailed, real world, analysis of how that valuation is reached.

It's a social network with a loyal user base. And... ?

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Darren — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:31:22 -0000

mmmm, if you got past the the anti hype that MS gets you would realise that they are one of the best tech companies out there. If they bought their knowledge of building great development tools to the platform then facebook could become a platform.

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Douglas — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:00:21 -0000

I'm sorry but I still can't believe what FB is being valued at, and what the major players sound like they are willing to spend. I just don't see that much return on investment, considering that there really isn't much that makes FB stand out. They could be easily reproduced by a couple people in a basement in a couple months.

I'm sure I am not giving FB enough credit, but 40 billion???

-Doug
www.informativepost.com

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pbreit — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:42:05 -0000

I'd be surprised if Facebook went with Microsoft since it brings so little to the table beyond cash.

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phenom — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:27:09 -0000

Yahoo, never heard of them running for FB until now. I would prefer FB to stay as themselves.

http://vidsonly.blogspot.com

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Adam Ostrow — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 13:02:06 -0000

Agreed. If any deal happens at all. This is one of the longer-running rumors out there ...

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Mike Mothner — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:49:23 -0000

Although Yahoo's may be considering an investment, I still believe that they will not stay in the running. Microsoft seems to me to be the front-runner in this bidding war for Facebook and I believe they will in fact come out on top.

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Adam Ostrow — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:45:29 -0000

Yup. Yahoo doesn't get much credit for being "early" on things like Flickr and del.icio.us. Given Photobucket went for $300M+, you would have to think Flickr would at least be in that range today if it were still independent. Yahoo got it for around $30M.

Plus, I don't know what exactly "investing" in Facebook gets them. Whereas Microsoft would be preserving its ad deal, it's not really clear what Yahoo would gain other than making money on their investment if Facebook continues to go up in value.

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Bruce Judson — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:40:35 -0000

As you note, Yahoo has made some great acquisitions with savvy early buys. It's hard to believe that Facebook is not fully valued or even over-valued today. While there is lot's of activity on the Facebook platform it seems to me the jury is still out on Facebook's long-term revenue potential and whether Facebook itself will remain the "hot" property.

If there is one constant on the Internet, it's that every few months there is a new hot service. Right now, Facebook is the service of the moment.

Bruce Judson
Founder, Search Free Apps
www.SearchFreeApps.com