Untitled. Exclusive: Discussing the Future of Facebook and the Facebook Ec. There’s no shortage of big initiatives going on at Facebook these days. We sat down with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg this week to talk about the state and future of Facebook and its surrounding ecosystem. Zuckerberg shared his thoughts on recent changes to the Facebook Platform, competitive dynamics he desires amongst developers, the surprising growth of the social games business on Facebook overall, his vision for Facebook Credits, market perceptions of Facebook’s revenue streams and overall revenue numbers, what the company learned from its period of serious interest in Twitter, and Facebook’s company culture around money. Today, Facebook’s 1,400 employees are working on products to better serve and monetize its nearly 500 million monthly active users around the world – up from 150 million at the start of 2009.
We estimate the company did between $600 to $700 million in revenues last year, and will see between $1 and $1.1 billion in overall revenues this year. Facebook: A “new chapter” for the company’s mobile strategy. Facebook is going to go beyond rolling out standalone applications for iPhones, Google Android devices or feature phones and start considering itself a platform for developers to distribute mobile apps with. “Where we’re going from here is a platform strategy. We’re going away from a one-off app strategy,” said Erick Tseng in his first public appearance since joining Facebook as head of mobile products. Speaking at VentureBeat’s MobileBeat conference today, he said the company will start building out this effort over the next several months. “We want to provide mobile developers with all the goodness of the open graph,” he said.
Such a move would parallel what Facebook has done for the non-mobile web with a platform that now supports more than 550,000 applications and 1 million developers. Tseng pointed to location as one area where social features could strengthen user experience. He did say that, “Inevitably, app stores will become more social. Facebook’s commitment to failing at ecommerce. Facebook & The Semantic Web. This week we've been exploring the emergence of the Semantic Web among companies like Best Buy and Google.
It's all thanks to RDFa, code that is inserted into the HTML of web pages to add extra meaning. The increasing usage of RDFa was one of the main themes at the recent Semantic Technology conference in San Francisco. There is perhaps no better example than Facebook's use of RDFa. We chatted to Facebook open standards evangelist David Recordon to find out more. In April this year, Facebook announced a large-scale new platform called the Open Graph. The stated goal of the Open Graph protocol was to enable publishers to "integrate [their] Web pages into the social graph. " Essentially, each web page can now become an 'object' in Facebook's social graph (which is Facebook's term for how people connect to each other in its network).
The Open Graph in a Nutshell The Open Graph is a wide-ranging platform which includes features such as 'Like' buttons and publisher plug-ins. Open Graph Issues. Facebook and SEO | Search Engine Optimization | Search Engines. Are you spending valuable time thinking about FaceBook and SEO? If so, then read on my friend and we'll have a look-see if that time has been well spent. First things first, I don't really like to think of FB as a search engine per se. At least not a web search as we're traditionally accustomed to.
This is not a cat fight between Google and FaceBook. A traditional search engine crawls the web, locates, indexes and retrieves information. FaceBook is more of a 'site search' application than a (web) search engine. Ever since they announced the open graph and search enhancements we've been hearing more and more about the world of FB search and of course, optimization for same. What we know about OpenGraph Ok, so from what we do know the results are being partially ranked/scored based on 'likes'. We also have a bit of semantic code at play here, not dissimilar to what we know already with RDFa/micro-formats. What's the Value of FaceBook SEO? That my friends, is the real question here. Bing???