Comments on: It Is Truly a Planet Facebook

By: Jobs in Saudi Arabia

Jobs in Saudi Arabia — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 21:02:14 +0000

Face book is useful for marketing

By: ooty

ooty — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:12:11 +0000

The Face Book is wasting time for most of the people

By: ooty

ooty — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:59:05 +0000

Many of the peoples are very crazy on face book and wasting their time.

By: tamil

tamil — Tue, 05 May 2009 17:47:59 +0000

The rise of Facebook may never be solely attributed to a single element of success. The onset of social networking media like Myspace, Friendster, Hi5, Tagged, Multiply, Twitter and others have each added to the myriad of online strategies to expand the growth of businesses through social networks.

Given this, Facebook need to sustain its lead; otherwise, its fad may well be replaced overnight by a cooler, smarter and more innovative service. Who knows, Google might end up buying Facebook at a cheaper deal when that happens.

By: Christina

Christina — Mon, 04 May 2009 18:23:16 +0000

Hi Om,

These statistics are very interesting. I am writing a piece about Facebook growth in the Czech Republic and I am looking for similar statistics. I want to know how the introduction of the Czech language option affected membership. Can you help?

I would very much appreciate any help.

Thanks,
Christina

By: anon

anon — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:49:26 +0000

“PR campaigns, below the line promotions, and media endorsements have driven facebook’s growth”

I would like to hear more about this. Maybe a expose.

By: Joseph

Joseph — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:09:07 +0000

People need to stop comparing facebook to Google, but instead to Amazon, whose business plan called for growth-first, revenue-second.

By cornering the global social networking market, facebook is positioning itself to be the center of an individual’s web identity. As the web becomes more democratized and social (i.e. facebook Connect), this identity will prove pivotal for serving relevant targeting marketing campaigns to users, not just on facebook, but where ever they traverse on the web.

So, in essence, critics who call for facebook to profit immediately, this instant (!), do not understand the history of the web and/or are incompetent in understanding the foresight of the social networking marketplace. Go back to typing on typewriters old fogies.

By: Sumeet

Sumeet — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:26:52 +0000

Try to solve larger issues, have a better purpose, create value beyond entertainment and communication.

By: Keonda

Keonda — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:21:26 +0000

Despite these stats their now Oodle marketplace is only for US users… What a waste

By: Om Malik

Om Malik — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 22:05:59 +0000

@marcus

that is their implied valuation. sorry i should not have said $4 billion a year company. that is my bad.

by the way they have about $400 million in revenues.

also on your question about correlation between money raised and the number of users, there are many examples to the contrary. a lot of companies which raised a lot of money failed to get a large number of users. one couldn’t really make a scientific conclusion :-)