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POPSAOL Buys Bebo On the Cheap Another sign that Facebook is terribly overpriced. So why did Microsoft value the company at $15 billion when Bebo's sizable audience sells for a small fraction of that? One element is that Google has never seemed interested in Bebo--Facebook's price probably resulted from bidding between Microsoft and Google.
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POPSFortune: Facebook is Dead While the Beacon debacle is mostly something that exists in the minds of journalists and .1 percent of Facebook's users, it's true that Facebook is in trouble. And not just on privacy issues...after a $15 billion valuation of a company with no proven money-making ability, this kind of backlash was inevitable...and with competitors like Open Social popping up, this could sink the company altogether.
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POPSMyspace Still Trashing Facebook Amid the nonstop fawning over Mark Zuckerberg, it's still helpful to remember that Myspace has far more users and far more moneymaking ability than Facebook. Still trying to figure out how Facebook could possibly be worth $15 billion...
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POPSEmail is the New Social Network Slate says email is going the way of the fax. The NYtimes says it's going the way of Facebook. It's all very confusing. I vote for the latter. As Joe Kraus argues here, email does contain all the information that social networkers refer to as "the social graph" by virtue of all those contact lists. That means Google and Yahoo already have a massive social network. This, along with OpenSocial, seems to be another sign that Facebook is not the Web messiah many make it out to be. The barbarians are at the gate, and Facebook still has yet to even approach Myspace's number of users.
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