You may not be smarter than Bill Gates, but you can still beat him at his own game! According to his own calculations - paying two hundred and forty million dollars for a mere 1.6 percent stake in Facebook - Microsoft and Mr. Gates has essentially valued the world's hottest social networking site at an eye-popping fifteen billion dollars.
The online community Facebook is who Microsoft paid the big bucks to - and the deal suddenly gave Facebook an estimated value of around 15 billion bucks! What exactly does Facebook have that Microsoft - reportedly along with other online giants Yahoo! and Google - are so desperate to get a piece of? More importantly, how can you get the same thing for nothing?
But what about marketers who don't have hundreds of millions - or even millions - of dollars? Are they destined to be priced out of what is fast becoming an essential internet marketing tool? There is a way in, and we'll get to it. But first, a little more about how Facebook works.
With two hundred thousand users a day joining its base of 50 million, Facebook isn't just growing, it's exploding. The site is the prime example of Web 3.0, where a website's operating system works independently of what's on the user's computer. This leads to the phenomenon called semantic web development.
There are over five thousand free "applications," tools like games, quizzes and messaging devices, available on Facebook's interface. These applications continue to transform Facebook into a sort of virtual amusement park, where users can create elaborate personal profiles or surprise their friends with quirky new forms of interaction. Once people log on, they quickly get hooked, and soon friends and family members are signing up as well.
And Facebook is determined to keep expanding by continuing to "internationalize" the site and bring other countries around the world into the online community. This intense combination of incredible growth and evolving technology has internet marketers hungry for a piece of this fresh, new and massive database.
So Microsoft's massive buy-in is no surprise. The mega-corporations are always looking for marketing's "next big thing," and the computer giant has just given Facebook their real stamp of approval - a huge wad of cash.
What this means is Facebook is an online marketing opportunity that is unparalleled on the internet today. That's why Microsoft wrote that big check - but the good news is you can access what they're getting, without that kind of price tag.
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