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Published Thursday 8th May 2008 10:34 GMT

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Microsoft and facebook 

By Gerhard Mack
Posted Thursday 8th May 2008 11:14 GMT

The day Microsoft buys facebook is the day I delete my account there. Not that I spend much time on it anyways.

MiFaCroCeSoBoFtOk!!!!!! 

By Mike Crawshaw
Posted Thursday 8th May 2008 12:02 GMT
Joke

The name's a winner. Patenting it as we speak.

Re: "It's still difficult to quantify the economic value ...." 

By Ian Wilson
Posted Thursday 8th May 2008 12:21 GMT

Thats easy. Zero. Period.

Hyper-targeting hyper-marketing hype 

By Nick L
Posted Thursday 8th May 2008 12:58 GMT

"The big hope for the site is its "hyper-targeting" system, which sells the interests users list in their profile to advertisers."

Fascinating, captain. You mean there are still people who fill in all those details ?

Murdoch 

By Mo
Posted Thursday 8th May 2008 13:09 GMT

“even as part of Rupert Murdoch's globe-spanning media empire.”

I think you'll find that everything MySpace is doing successfully (which isn't much, really) is IN SPITE of it being part of the Murdoch empire.

Social networking and gigantic media conglomerates aren't really supposed to mix. The latter doesn't talk in individual terms.

Web 3.0 

By hans
Posted Thursday 8th May 2008 17:36 GMT
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Just goes to show that many of those with the money have no idea whatsoever how technology and people work.

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