Liveblogging Facebook Advertising Announcement

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After reading what facebook doing I am a bit disappointed at this point...I was hoping they will announce something a lot more revolutionary... the pages idea is kind of implemented already by other networks such as the Sugar network (they might not be using it for advertising purpose as much, and at this point, but the idea was there) ...

It also feels like not only Facebook does not want the rest of the web to reach its users, but it is also not interested to reach the rest of the web itself, and is happy with its own internal network! is this really the best strategy though?

Fuck me! Now I know the main reason I got rejected by YC. I didn't mark "Facebook could already be into our idea" as a possible answer for "what might go wrong (This is a test of imagination, not confidence.)" in the application.

Well, the gates are open. Advertising based on information provided by users is a reality. Let's see if we can take a slice of that pie.

A press conference... For this?

Of course!!! I believe many people have been waiting for this news for quite some time now? this means a huge deal to Facebook's future and also all the other exsisting networks and bigger companies such as Google and Microsoft... this is the kind of reason why Microsoft would value the company at 15b$ and why Google would feel threaten and come up with OpenSocial and be able to convince everyone to join

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