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http://archives.lesechos.fr/archives/2011/LesEchos/21027-83-ECH.htm Les Echos n° 21027 du 29 Septembre 2011 • page 18 Facebook 2.0 », « une nouvelle dimension »... Dans les travées du Concourse Exhibition Center de San Francisco, jeudi dernier, les commentaires étaient dithyrambiques sur les nouveautés que venait d'annoncer Mark Zuckerberg. Les développeurs présents, à l'imagination pourtant souvent débordante, étaient bluffés par les possibilités offertes par la nouvelle plate-forme de Facebook. Il faut dire que l'idée de base est ambitieuse : faire du réseau social le principal carrefour du Net.

++ Les nouvelles marches de l'empire Facebook, Analyses de la rédaction

http://venturebeat.com/2011/08/12/facebook-game-leaders-were-not-worried-about-google-games/

Facebook game leaders: We’re not worried about Google+ games | VentureBeat

For now, Facebook’s gaming managers aren’t worried about the competition from Google+. If they keep doing a good job growing the engagement and monetization of users on their own platform, they expect that game developers, users, and Facebook itself will be happy no matter what the competitive landscape looks like. The stakes are pretty high right now, as Google and Facebook have finally begun to compete directly against each other this week in the social game market, where billions of dollars are at stake.
Mitchell Harper is co-founder of BigCommerce , a leading provider of shopping cart software used by more than 40,000 organizations worldwide. http://mashable.com/2010/05/07/facebook-open-graph-ecommerce/

5 Ways Facebook Will Impact E-commerce

5 Ways Facebook's New Features Will Fuel Social Shopping

Christian Taylor is founder and CEO of Payvment and developer of the number-one Facebook ecommerce platform for brands, agencies and merchants, and the world’s only Facebook Shopping Mall . Many of the new features introduced at Facebook ’s f8 Developer Conference last Thursday, such as a customizable Open Graph and real-time news Ticker , will have a tremendous impact on social commerce and social shopping in the very near future. SEE ALSO: How Facebook Timeline Might Radically Change the Look of Brand Pages [PICS] http://mashable.com/2011/09/29/facebook-social-shopping/
http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/13/its-a-facebook-world-other-social-networks-just-live-in-it/ Robin Wauters is the European Editor of tech blog The Next Web and lead editor of Virtualization.com.

It’s A Facebook World … Other Social Networks Just Live In It

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Facebook Business Model visualized

Facebook’s invading our social lives – that’s a fact! But what if you can buy stuff with a Facebook virtual currency? It may be something bigger than Paypal or anything else we’re using to pay for our purchases online. http://garious.com/blog/2010/09/beating-paypal-at-its-game/

Facebook Credit is the New Paypal | Garious Blog

Alexander Osterwalder Originally I was planning to write a post on “Why The Crazy Facebook ($50B) and Twitter ($3B) Valuations Might Just Make Sense” by highlighting the key characteristics of their business model (e.g. scalability). However, I thought it would be way more fun to reverse engineer Facebook’s business model with ballpark figures in collaboration with you, my smart and loyal blog readers.

Reverse Engineering Facebook?s Business Model with Ballpark Figures ? Business Model Alchemist

http://www.businessmodelalchemist.com/2011/01/reverse-engineering-facebooks-business-model-with-ballpark-figures.html
http://junkcharts.typepad.com/numbersruleyourworld/2011/02/further-thoughts-on-the-facebook-business-model.html I have often grumbled about " story time !", the practice of spinning grand stories based on tiny morsels of data. It's not that I disapprove of story-telling per se -- it is that the story-teller has got to find evidence to support his/her stories.

Further thoughts on the Facebook business model, and the challenge of Web analytics - Numbers Rule Your World