#1 social network
#1 dating site
#1 photo sharing site
#1 news aggregator
#1 job search site
#1 classified ad site
#1 blog site
With that much (voluntarily provided) user data, there are a lot of markets they could dominate. If you could figure out what each of those people was buying, you'd be pretty close to the holy grail of market research.
Sounds like what Yahoo and other portals tried to do and didn't really succeed. Facebook is like the same play coming from a different angle, except this time they own all your friends :-).
Always amusing how Markus looks at everything in terms of dating. Facebook doesn't seem optimal for dating, I have been thinking of how you could use the Facebook API to do dating properly but didn't come up with an amazing approach.
Also I can't wait till Facebook is actually beating Myspace. I just dont get the motivation/mind of myspace users properly, facebook is a lot easier to understand (this is purely on an academic/entrepreneurial level)
#1 social network #1 dating site #1 photo sharing site #1 news aggregator #1 job search site #1 classified ad site #1 blog site
With that much (voluntarily provided) user data, there are a lot of markets they could dominate. If you could figure out what each of those people was buying, you'd be pretty close to the holy grail of market research.