the Face of Facebook

The following link is to an article in the Los Angeles Times November 18, 2007 regarding Facebook.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-fi-facebook18nov18,1,3073382.story

Key excerpts.

"Facebook now has more than 54 million users, second among social networking sites behind only Beverly Hills-based MySpace.

"As Google aims to organize the world's information, Facebook aims to connect the world's people."

"Facebook has become such an integral part of some people's lives that it's replacing e-mail. That's exactly what Zuckerberg has in mind: his site as the starting point and focal point of the Internet experience."

"Members already alert their friends about the things they love and hate, including movies, restaurants, clothing and cars. Now advertisers can feast on all the information they share, and even attach commercial messages."

"advertisers are expected to nearly triple their annual worldwide spending on social networks to $3.6 billion by 2011, according to research firm eMarketer Inc."

"Even nontechies can enroll in a basic programming course, FB101, taught by a Harvard teaching assistant whose artificial-intelligence course Zuckerberg once took. "