No sign of nervous tic at Facebook
For a company supposedly backed into a corner by the Google gang (see “Google expands Facebook Haters secret clubhouse“), Facebook and the folks around it seem remarkably unrattled today. The company maintained that nobody from Google has stopped by yet to talk about OpenSocial, a standard for creating third-party applications for social sites now endorsed by nearly all of its rivals, major and minor. While Facebook has its own proprietary platform, spokeswoman Brandee Barker said, “When we have had a chance to understand the technology, then Facebook will evaluate participation.” And Facebook investor and board member Jim Breyer told several bloggers that the company isn’t opposed to Google’s plan in principle and that Facebook’s business isn’t predicated on remaining a closed system. Breyer also punctured rumors that two hedge funds had combined to invest something like $500 million in the company, saying, ”Those reports last week were a total fiction.” Facebook is just fine for cash, he said, and won’t go public until at least 2009.
Presumably, some of you actually CARE about this facebook trivia? At this rate, it will not be necessary for you/your kids/ etc to ever get off the couch.
Ooh mi god!….what will the world do without a standard for all that glittering sparkle you attach to the facebook message that you really…really… like him… Like “like” him…. Ooh Mi God…
I’m sure they all be taking the weekend off becuase they have nothing to worry about.
2009 is only 2 years away my friend.