Comments on: Can Facebook feed its ad brains?

Social-networking site expected to tap artificial intelligence to deliver ads to its 49 million members.

[Ouch!]

Big Fat White Elephant

BaceFook will prove to be MicroGate's Big Fat Elephant in the room:

48 million clients? No @$%*^# way! Did they start April 1st?

And No doubt everyone is sitting at their keyboards waiting for the next ad to be flashed at them!

100 to 1 this will turn out to be a hoax! Watch out for the knock-on effect!

[Tomcat Adam]

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Obviously you have never been to the site...

[Broward Horne]

Consolidation Phase

Facebook's current growth rate is unsustainable and will peak out around summer of 2008.

http://www.realmeme.com/roller/page/realmeme?entry=social_networking_meme

My email to Facebook in 2006 suggested that social networking was entering a consolidation phase. With the introduction of their API and now Google's OpenSocial API, it's clear that the context is now about taking existing customers from other social networking sites.

My extrapolation of Facebook's growth rate is based on the concept that there are finite # of customers and most of those are already in play.

[Sea of Cortez]

Face book = being scammed by Nigerians

I posted a few things for sale on Facebook and I all have gotten is one message from Nigerian scam artists after another :(

You the messages that goes like we want to buy your car, but to buy it you need to ship to us, so send us $1250 for the shipping cost and
we will then send you $15K for your car.

Have Facebook display the IP location of the so called Facebook members and you will see more than half of them are mapping to locations in West Africa. I mean the girl says she is a beautiful blond from Charleston USA, but if you start talking with her you see that she wants you to wire money to Gahna for her to come and visit you
because her sick dad who is Ambassador Johnson is in Gahna. And Billions of other similar scams.

So join Facebook, if you want to be scammed to death.

[Rossjb]

Can-Facebook-feed-its-ad-brains? - Yes.

"For now, Microsoft will be serving Facebook's graphical ads, but it remains to be seen how the social network will tackle the ad issue on its own."

Looksmart's AdCenter + "Bid4Keywords" ='s Facebook...

"Looksmart's AdCenter allows publishers and advertisers to fully control their campaigns in all facets including their daily spend & the ability to fully target Looksmart's rich (& concentrated) content that does provide a wide range of topic appeal, particularly on a contextual basis."

And Network Solution's "Bid4Keywords" will suit Facebook, accordingly. That they have been found using Ads (a friend was served a "contextual") coming direct from an NAI member, would indicate this to us .... And they will probably be using Looksmart's AdCenter they have Licensed from Looksmart.

This will be "huge" news on Tuesday, if it is to be so. And it does appear to be. And the massive scale involved within the NAI (alone) should prove irresistible for them. There are at least a "half dozen" Networks forming, having compatibility with Looksmart's AdCenter. Learn of the NAI from within these posts here:

http://www1.investorvillage.com/beta/smbd.asp?pt=m&SearchBy=MessageText&SearchFor=Tacoda&clear=1&mb=3240&Search=Go

Last Thursday came the rumour of an AOL buy-out of Quigo for $300M. [And almost confirmed, just a few hours ago]

With AOL already heavily "involved" with the NAI (Network Advertising Initiative), it has "advertising.com" and "Tacoda" any such purchase would thereby introduce the Quigo customer base (those that are not there already via FAST's AdMomentum), and would include ABCNews.com, CNNMoney.com, Forbes.com, and USAToday.com.

http://www.quigo.com/

As said earlier .......Facebook will be "huge" for Looksmart as an Adcenter partner! And "huge" for all advertisers involved. IMHO.

:)

Rossjb

[ceoballmer]

With a little help from their friends!

They can do anything!
http://****************.blogspot.com
Why do ya think I "gave" them 256 million?