Hoo Boy Online

Microsoft paid a hefty price tag - two hundred and forty million dollars - for only a 1.6 percent stake in the sizzling-hot online social networking site, Facebook. By that yardstick, Bill Gates’ big guns are reckoning that Facebook’s value is worth fifteen billion bucks altogether.

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?

To begin with, Facebook represents a huge shift in online thinking and technology to the big corporations - the face of Web 2.0 / Web 3.0 and the semantic web movement - and they’re desperate not to be left behind.

Facebook is adding users at an incredible rate of over two hundred thousand a day to its already large base of fifty million. The website is also a prime example of semantic web development, a function of what’s being called Web 3.0, where the operating system within the website becomes more important than the operating system (such as Windows) that’s used on your computer itself.

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.

Facebook isn’t limiting this “Facebook Family” to the USA, but reaching out to people around the world, “internationalizing” the site by bringing users in other countries into their online community. Meaning Facebook’s database and technology are both growing at a breakneck pace, providing an amazing new forum for internet marketers.

No wonder Microsoft opened up their wallet so wide. Facebook just might be the “perfect storm” of marketing opportunity that the super-corporations are searching high and low for - and willing to pay what it takes to be in the mix.

But again, what about those of us who lack Microsoft’s buying power? Believe it or not, you don’t need Bill Gates’ deep pockets to “own” your own little slice of Facebook, or be an active part of the site’s marketing community. Those new and desirable Facebook users are there for you too, and you can access them on your budget.

The secret is to use a Facebook Bot or Facebook Friend Adder. Once such “bot,” called Stealth Friend Bomber, Facebook Edition, can send your marketing message to the masses with tools like Mass Facebook Friend Pokes, Mass Facebook Friend Requests and Mass Facebook Friend Messages. Enabling the smaller marketer to play on the same field as Bill Gates and the other big boys, this Facebook Friend Adder is the must-have Facebook marketing software of 2007. With the new Facebook Bot Stealth Friend Bomber, you’ll add new Facebook friends to your marketing base until you’ve poked everyone on the site with your marketing message.

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