The Internet’s New Face

November 7th, 2007

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by Matthew Loop

It has fifty million active members and is adding two hundred thousand new ones a day. Over five thousand applications have been created for it just since May of 2007. After an epic battle with Google and Yahoo!, Microsoft won the right to pour two hundred and forty million into it, bringing its total value up to fifteen billion.

Who or what wields this kind of power? Facebook does. Making Facebook an unheard-of internet marketing opportunity for marketers ready to latch on to the explosion of semantic web and Web 3.0. Unlike Windows, the operating systems used to power Facebook’s one-of-a-kind social network exist on the internet instead of your computer. This exciting, innovative new social networking environment is drawing huge numbers of internet users eager to simply hang out, hook up with old friends and find new ones to Poke, throw sheep at and give gifts to. Together, these millions of users form an unrivaled – and largely untapped – new marketing base.

Facebook’s unique tools and applications hook first-time users immediately and keep them coming back for more. Where else on the internet can you dedicate a song to your significant other, Poke an old friend you haven’t seen in years, leave a message on someone’s wall and win a virtual auto race – all in the same visit?

Facebook’s fun online community is rapidly becoming like a snowball rolling downhill, gathering more and more users, who in turn attract their friends, none of whom want to miss out on what everyone’s talking to. And it’s ending up, after three and a half years of a relatively quiet existence, as the New Big Thing in cool internet content, thanks to Facebook opening the site up to the creation of lots of fun new applications by outside developers.

So forget Friendster and keep watching MySpace deteriorate into MySpam, the millions of Facebook friends is a whole new attractive group of millions and millions ready to be marketing to in a whole new way. But how do you take advantage quickly – and tap your marketing operation seamlessly into that massive Facebook database? And do it in a painless automated way, leaving you free to continue to manage and expand your business?

The challenge is to move before everyone else does, and to slip your marketing message in seamlessly, without sticking out like some uninvited party crasher. And of course, to do all this without spending Microsoft-style piles of cash, or giving up the day-to-day running and growing of your core business. The newest Facebook marketing software, including Facebook bots and Facebook Friend Adders, provide the tools to do it all for you. Long after the other heavy traffic sites have been used up, these tools have the power to bring your marketing message to this lucrative new arena.

Stealth Friend Bomber, Facebook Edition is one of the most effective Facebook software packages. Automatically generating Mass Facebook Friend Messages, Requests and Pokes to a wide range of Facebook users, this must-have Facebook tool does everything and more to help you harness the power of the hottest social networking site in cyberspace.

The future of the internet lies in Web 3.0 sites like Facebook – and the future of internet marketing lies in Facebook marketing software like Stealth Friend Bomber, Facebook Edition.

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The Face-Off Over Facebook and Web 3.0 / Semantic Web

November 7th, 2007

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by Sam B. Goldberg

The answer is the hottest online social activity site, the vanguard of Web 3.0 and the semantic web revolution, Facebook. Facebook, which is three and a half years old, has seen its popularity explode in recent months – and the business community is desperate to get a piece of it.

Microsoft, Yahoo! and Google reportedly were locked in a bitter behind-the-scenes battle over buying a prominent piece of Facebook – with Microsoft left standing victorious with a 1.6 percent stake for an astronomical price of two hundred and forty million dollars – shooting up the total Facebook value to roughly fifteen billion.

Why the big payday for Facebook? Microsoft is afraid of losing control of the next generation of computer users, who make up a big part of Facebook’s user base. With Google’s aggressive internet marketing presence becoming a fact of life, Microsoft has no choice but to throw cash at Facebook so it won’t be left behind. Kevin Johnson, president of the platforms and services division at Microsoft, called the epic deal a “major advertising syndication win for Microsoft.”

It’s also a major win for Facebook’s continuing growth. The company will be doubling its workforce in the next year and will be aggressive in its international expansion. Facebook is also expected to announce a new advertising system very shortly. “We were very fortunate to have a lot of folks interested in a partnership with us around advertising,” said Owen Van Natta, chief revenue officer of Facebook.

Why is all the massive marketing buzz suddenly swirling around Facebook? Well, when your numbers show a 50 million active member base, with a growth rate of 200,000 new users a day, that tends to get internet marketers’ attention. There’s also a prestige factor as Facebook is looked at as a poster boy for Web 3.0 technology – a standalone online operating system that has nothing to do with Windows or Apple. Beyond that, there are the five thousand plus free Facebook applications that make interacting on the site so much fun – at no cost. You can have your own car, post photos, videos and songs you love, send other Friends hugs and tons of other activities contained in all the Facebook tools at your disposal.

Of course, major players like Microsoft and Google aren’t interested in a friendly Superpoke. They’re in it for the money, so clearly they believe there is a huge amount of it to be made on Facebook. But with computer biz giants throwing hundreds of millions of dollars at Facebook, how can individuals and smaller marketing firms avoid being priced out of the market for internet marketing’s newest must-have tool?

Luckily for the little guy, there is hope. The Stealth Friend Bomber, Facebook Edition is a new, innovative and highly effective Facebook marketing tool. This simple software is totally automated, using a Facebook bot called a Facebook Friend Adder to deliver your message to the Facebook masses via Mass Facebook Friend Pokes, Messages and Requests. Suddenly, your business is part of the Facebook community, marking to an audience of millions.

Sites like YouTube and MySpace may be here to stay, but Facebook is where the internet marketing action is heading to the next level.

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