Google+ The New Social Networking

or years now, I’ve been wondering why Google hadn’t made a proper social networking play. Aside from search and advertising, look at its services: Gmail, Blogger, YouTube, Docs, Sites, Maps, Calendar, Shopping, Picasa (picture storage), Picnik (picture editing), Groups, Books, Scholar, Questions, its Chrome OS and browser, not to speak of the Android OS for cellphones, some developed on its own, some from acquisitions. Put them together, and you pretty much have all you need. Except that Google seemed reluctant to put them together.

Google co-founder Page takes over, targets Facebook

Google co-founder Larry Page talks to reporters as CEO Eric Schmidt looks on, in Sun Valley, July 9, 2009.

Credit: Reuters/Rick Wilking

By Alexei Oreskovic

SAN FRANCISCO | Thu Jan 20, 2011 6:52pm EST

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc co-founder Larry Page will take over as CEO from Eric Schmidt, a surprise that signaled Silicon Valley's most powerful Internet company was taking the offensive against fast-moving rivals like Facebook.

Schmidt will step aside on April 4 and make way for Page -- who created the company with fellow Stanford University alumnus Sergey Brin in 1998 -- to take the reins of a company that has dominated Internet search for a decade but is in danger of losing traffic to social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

"Day-to-day adult supervision no longer needed!" Schmidt tweeted after the announcement.

Schmidt, who became CEO in 2001 to bring more management experience to a then-fledgling company, will assume the role of executive chairman, focusing on deals and government outreach, among other things. Brin will concentrate on strategic projects.

"Larry is ready. It's time for him to have a shot at running this," Schmidt told analysts on a conference call.

Shares in the Internet search and advertising leader rose about 2 percent to $639 in extended trading.

Just days ago, Apple Inc CEO Steve Jobs announced a leave of absence, leaving lieutenant Tim Cook in charge of day-to-day operations. Like Google, Apple also announced results this week that blew past Wall Street's estimates.

"The Street will think it's a negative, that there is probably some issue going on. Google is trying to get more efficient and trying to get a tech guy in the seat to compete with Facebook," said UBS analyst Brian Pitz. "I don't think it changes anything strategically where the company is headed."

News of the change came as Google reported a 29 percent surge in both net profit and net revenue that beat forecasts.

Net income, excluding items, of $8.75 a share outstripped Wall Street's average forecast of $8.10.

Net revenue, excluding fees paid to partner websites, was $6.37 billion. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S, on average, were expecting net revenue of $6.06 billion.

STREAMLINING

The world's top Internet company is recruiting and going on an acquisitions spree, aiming to ensure its online products remain popular as surfers turn to new services like Facebook -- now the most heavily trafficked website -- and wireless gadgets.

On a conference call with analysts, Google CFO Patrick Pichette said a 10 percent, across-the-board pay raise instituted late last year was a direct attempt to staunch a flow of talent to hot Web upstarts in the Valley.

Google tried to buy fast-growing online local-shopping service Groupon for $6 billion but was rebuffed, Chicago Breaking Business, a Tribune Newspaper website, and other news outlets reported.

Analysis: Facebook ignites Bubble 2.0 chatter

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at a news conference where he unveiled a new Facebook messaging system in San Francisco, California November 15, 2010.

Credit: Reuters/Robert Galbraith

By Alexei Oreskovic

SAN FRANCISCO | Thu Jan 6, 2011 3:56pm EST

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Remember Webvan? The online grocer, whose initial public offering in March 2000 was among the most hotly anticipated during the dot-com boom, is now viewed as one of the greatest disasters of the era.

Fast forward 11 years and the feeding frenzy around Facebook and its exponentially expanding valuations are conjuring fears of a Bubble 2.0.

Goldman Sachs bankers have offered their private wealth clients less than a week to decide whether they want to hand over $2 million apiece for a sliver of the Web darling du jour: Facebook at a $50 billion valuation.

For one Goldman client, who was expecting a 100-page financial document on Facebook to be hand-delivered on Thursday, hours before the deadline to invest in the company -- the whole thing "felt a bit like 1999."

Thanks to Goldman Sachs' latest cash infusion of about $450 million with a commitment to raise another $1.5 billion, Facebook has become the lightning rod for debate over whether these new Internet hotshots possess the profit-generating muscles to justify Wall Street's unforgiving expectations.

Twitter and Groupon, an online coupons site considered by some as the fastest growing company in Web history, are also mulling plans for IPOs well ahead of Facebook's potential offering at the end of 2012, investment bankers have told Reuters.

LinkedIn is wasting no time. The social network for professionals, with 85 million members, has hired bankers to go public this year.

For Facebook, which generated about $2 billion in revenue in 2010, according to media reports, the $50 billion valuation means investors have awarded it a multiple of 25 times sales, compared with a nine-times multiple for Google, and Amazon.com's 2.5-times multiple.

Facebook generates $4 per user, compared with Google's $24 per user and Yahoo's $8 per user, according to a recent report by JPMorgan.

All that makes Facebook look expensive in the eyes of investors who measure businesses using traditional financial yardsticks, said Ken Sawyer, the managing director of venture capital firm Saints Capital, which owns shares of Facebook.

Investors will need to look past existing financial returns to focus on the company's business-transforming potential.

"It depends on your view of the world," said Sawyer. "If you believe that the ability to leverage this social network fabric will change the way companies acquire customers, then the valuation looks cheap."

Just as Google's search advertisements revolutionized the way businesses reach customers, Facebook's audience of a half-a-billion members has allowed companies like social gaming service Zynga and online dating service Zoosk to sign-up tens of millions of customers of their own in record time, Sawyer said.

As Facebook devises more ways to make money from that capability, such as by taking a cut of transactions made by other companies on its platform, the opportunity could be substantial, he said.

GLOBAL PHENOMENON

Facebook documents reveal strong profits: source

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during a news conference at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, California May 26, 2010.

Credit: Reuters/Robert Galbraith

By Matthew Goldstein and Alexei Oreskovic

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO | Thu Jan 6, 2011 8:59pm EST

NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook is generating profits at a faster-than-expected rate, and will likely attract so many investors this year that it will have to disclose financial data similar to a publicly traded company by April 2012, according to a document distributed by Goldman Sachs.

The move could set the stage for a much-anticipated Facebook initial public offering in 2012, though there is no guarantee that the social networking company would choose to sell shares to the public simply because it is required to open its books to the public.

Facebook, the world's No. 1 Internet social network, earned $355 million in net income in the first nine months of 2010 on revenue of $1.2 billion, according to a source who received the documents that Goldman Sachs provided to its clients on Thursday.

Goldman began hand-delivering copies of the 101-page private placement memorandum for a $1.5 billion Facebook offering to its wealthy customers a little after lunchtime in New York, according to the source.

The Goldman customer said he received a separate six-page financial statement containing information on the social networking company.

The document provides some of the most detailed financial information yet about Facebook, which Goldman recently valued at $50 billion in a separate, $450 million funding.

That valuation is high, but not outrageous based on the glimpse into the company's financial performance and the growth that it implies, said Ryan Jacob, of the Jacob Internet Fund.

"It just shows you that these businesses can generate 30 percent to 40 percent, potentially, operating margins," he said. "They probably did at least $500 million in net income in 2010."

Wedbush Securities analyst Lou Kerner, who owns Facebook shares, said, "The revenue kind of are in line with our expectations."

"The surprise was on the profitability. I think it highlights that Facebook is likely to have margins that are going to exceed Google's margins," he said.

The memo said Facebook is likely to have more than 500 shareholders this year, according to another person who reviewed the documents, and that the company may begin filing public reports of its financial performance by April 2012.

(Not everyone thinks Facebook's valuation is justified. For a Reuters Insider video, "Facebook Financials Don't Back Valuation," click here [ID:nRTV176273]))

THE BIG 500

United States securities regulations require companies with more than 499 shareholders to disclose financial information.

Facebook, which was founded in a Harvard dorm room in 2004, has more than 500 million users and is challenging big Web businesses like Google Inc and Yahoo Inc for users' time online and for advertising dollars.

NutshellMail for Facebook Fan Pages

Who would not know Facebook? Lately our society as vying to become celebrities in cyberspace with always updating their status on Facebook. It is reasonable as long as these habits do not interfere with your main job only.

How many of you join a group or become fans of the celebrities on Facebook? This time gives an NutshellMail present value of Facebook Fan Pages which delivers innovative web-based service that allows users to send and receive messages on social networks like Facebook to get into the e-mail inbox. Not only it turned out to Facebook, but this feature users can enjoy LinkedIn, MySpace and Twitter.

Currently, the application can facilitate NutshellMail admin of Facebook Fan Pages to automatically send an email newsletter to every member of the fans. NutshellMail allows users to add the email newsletter on the tab on your page, making it easier for you to see if any incoming email from the fan page.

This application is quite simple. NutshellMail collect recent activity of your pages, organize them into an email form and send it to each Subscriber on the page. You can also make comments, express likes and dislikes, share and send feedback to the fan page via email.

NutshellMail themselves are not so new because it started there in year 2007 and is now cooperating with the Facebook and Accel Partners and Founders Fund to develop quality applications for Facebook.

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Online Facebook and Twitter In TweetDeck

TweetDeck is a twitter client, and later also expanded its services to Facebook, MySpace, and LinkedIn. I think this is the best twitter client for the PC, why? TweetDeck using technology AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime), which can be installed on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS, so TweetDeck multi-platform. We can receive status updates, photos, status updates, like, write on wall, message, almost all features can be used, unless the application.

Given TweetDeck is AIR applications, we must download and install Adobe AIR first.

Download Adobe AIR
Download TweetDeck

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Upload Images Quickly on Facebook

I am irritated, I like people who download photos on facebook for the purpose of sharing unduhnya but the process is slow, so that in because cafe where my speed is only 512kbps, heu. But now in can with the Firefox Add-on that is "Facebook Album Downloader (FacePad)" with this (facepad red) I can download a little or a lot of photos at once, how to take advantage of this Add-on:

• Invite http://addons.mozilla.org.en-US/firefox/addon/8442 end link then select add to firefox.
• I have confirmation, aja press "install now"
• Wait until pengunduhan and install process is complete, you are, please login to your facebook
• Entry to the photo page
• Right click on the album not the image, select Download album with facePAD
• Ihwew confirmation window appears, confirm that uploaded do.
• When the show, so wait until the finished 
• When finished, right-click on the download window of firefox and select open containing folder
  

Seeing the Invisible Visible at Facebook

Certainly, invisible mode is used when we want the privacy, especially with a player we have a lot heheh boyfriend, but I would like to monitor pacarku, I can not if I invisible? Now I have him this way out for you so that pure hhehehe player.

• Entry to http://apps.facebook.com/appearoffline/.
• From this application (appearoffline red) you can see what the women's gacoan that you are online even though you are offline deh.
• To facilitate the use of this application, click the bookmark menu appear offline on facebook which is located on the bottom.
  

but for the player before you discovered repentance, change the image of a man. so faithful 