Facebook is kicking ass!
As I wrote on my recent twitter-message I spent the evening on Facebook tonight. The social pressure was growing over the last couple of weeks and today my tipping point has been reached: After being registered since September 2006, today is the day I really start to use Facebook.
Checking out facebook I found some nice statistics:
# Facebook has 31 mio active users (an active user means being active in the last 30 days)
# Facebook is growing with over 100′000 users per day and 3% per week (meaning doubling every six months)
# 50% of all active users visit the site every day
# More than 40 billion page views per month (meaning facebook surpassed eBay and is now No. 13 at Alexa)
# Facebook has raised more than $38 mio in venture capital in three rounds
# Facebook has more than 300 employees (and more than 85 developers)
# Facebook has been launched in February 2004, reached 1 mio users in December 2004 and 10 mio users in autumn 2006.
# Over 1800 applications have been built on Facebook Platform (about 800 have more than 1000 users)
# The top 10 applications have all more than 3 mio users!
I also watched Mark’s f8 keynote launching Facebook Platform and learned the following:
# Facebook Platform will kick ass!
# It’s like an operating system and could create a new industry (social application industry)
# I’ve already installed two of my favorite applications: Twitter and Plazes. The twitter application has almost 30′000 users, the Plazes application has already 600 users.
# If they continue to grow this fast, Facebook could soon be one of my most used websites
# If you run a web-service (or a social network), you should build a Facebook application soon (or someone else will fill your niche)
# There could be a huge business opportunity for application developers
My application wishlist:
# XING
# LinkedIn
# StudiVZ
# Exsila
# memberYou
Open questions & open thoughts:
# Will StudiVZ be able to follow Facebook? In my opinion StudiVZ is in a very good position because Facebook is not very strong in central Europe. But will they be able to go from "Students" to "Everybody" in such a smooth way like Facebook? Or will StudiVZ sooner or later be aquired by Facebook?
# Microsoft is partnering with Facebook. My first thought was: Maybe Microsoft is preparing to buy or merge with Facebook one day? This could be the ticket for Microsoft to seriously come closer to Google.
Conclusion:
WOW!
More Links:
Flavio about Facebook
Wikipedia about Facebook
Russian Facebook (looks familiar? ;-) –> one of the fastest growing russian websites (comparison with StudiVZ)
Dutch Facebook
Australian Facebook
Chinese Facebook
Turkish Facebook
Tags: facebook, facebook platform, social software, studivz
Categories: Entrepreneurship
July 23rd, 2007 at 11:23
Hi Remo,
so we meet again.. somewhere on the endless web ;-)
I just can second your anthem about facebook..
I think it’s an absolutely stunning site.. and by far better then stuff like MySpace and the thousands of clones around…
Take care.. see you soon on the Web2.0 ;-)
Cheers
Tom
July 23rd, 2007 at 12:03
http://ifyoucandreamityoucandoit.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/facebook-und-co/
July 23rd, 2007 at 12:04
http://ifyoucandreamityoucandoit.wordpress.com/2007/07/17/facebook-und-co/
http://ifyoucandreamityoucandoit.wordpress.com/2007/07/23/facebook-popularity-map/
July 23rd, 2007 at 17:50
facebook is cool, but idunno peekamo is pretty sick….
July 24th, 2007 at 11:43
Hey Remo,
Cooler Bericht. Ich kann dir eigentlich nur recht geben. Facebook scheint da wirklich neue Massstäbe zu setzen. Cool finde ich vor allem, dass du eine member You Applikation wünschst. Wir geben uns Mühe, dass es irgendwann mal möglich ist, seine Freizeit aktiv mit anderen Facebook-anern zu gestalten oder weitere Sportpartner zu finden.
Gruss
July 24th, 2007 at 20:53
[...] Facebook: Jetzt aber mal langsam. Juli 24, 2007 at 8:47 nachmittags | In studivz.net, social networking | Wenn ich so durch meine diversen Feeds klicke, finde ich in den letzten zwei Wochen ein Wort in (mindestens) jedem zweiten Blog: FACEBOOK. So langsam hebt Facebook (in Deutschland in den deutschen Medien -ja klar in den USA etc. auch) so richtig ab. The Hype beginns. Die Welt schreibt sogar schon vom heissesten Internet-Unternehmen der Welt. Zu Unrecht!! Sicher ist Facebook mit der Öffnung ein “genialer Schachzug” gelungen: – Sicher ist Facebook dabei Standards zu setzen. – Die Zunahme der Userzahlen ist beeindruckend – Und eine Ãœbernahme von mehreren Mrd Dollar (müssen ja keine 10 sein) scheint realistisch. – Und es ist ja auch interessant, dass Facebook jetzt doch endlich mal auch nach Deutschland will. [...]
July 26th, 2007 at 19:15
Interview mit Daniela Hinrichs, XING AG…
Auf http://www.comdao.org findet ihr ein Interview mit Daniela Hinrichs, VP Corporate Communications von der XING AG, über verschiedene Aspekte des globalen Wettbewerbs bei Social Networks. Sehr interessant!
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July 13th, 2008 at 09:12
[...] surprised me. I’m not spending to much time on it since the business value is not very high yet, but it [...]
November 5th, 2008 at 12:06
Nice and really helpfull, thnx
January 19th, 2009 at 01:04
Remo, you are pretty much way ahead of the curve. I just started to get involved with Twitter, and the whole twitter thing is really taking off…but you were all over it way back in 07! When there were 30,000 users. What is it now? Couple million? -Sandy
June 1st, 2009 at 04:28
Certainly agree with you. Facebook is kicking ass big time. The competitors are left in the dust. Mark certainly pulled out a really awesome site. Genius mind. Thanks for the post. Cheers
June 12th, 2009 at 07:11
Very good article about faceebook thanks!
September 4th, 2009 at 09:17
If all the statistics bout facebook is 100% true then think about the google, i think facebook win the race these statistics threaten google future …….
Thanks for very informative post.