Facebook成为了香饽饽
SNS, 观点 October 25th, 2007
New York Post今天的一篇报道说Microsoft和google 正在争夺对Facebook投资，据说Facebook的投资商期望其估价(pre money valuation)在USD100~150亿之间, 也就是说要获得其5%~10%的股份，需要付出7.5~15亿。 早些时候传说Yahoo要收够facebook, 但facebook 不卖，现在Google和Microsoft也只是投资而已。
虽然Social Networking Service从03年开始红火，但到目前为止一家还没有上市的（只算了美国的，没有算欧洲xing和日本的mixi），这从前大家期望的要慢了不少。但myspace卖了个不错的价格，linkedin即将上市的传闻，已经最近facebook的兴旺，让很多人重新燃起了希望。
不过，我认为facebook目前的红火，并非只是因为其SNS的特性和火爆的人气（SNS一大把，人气火爆的站点facebook也不是最强的，至少现在myspace仍然流量更大），而是因为facebook平台带来的价值。SNS是facebook的一个基础，为其带来了用户的成长和繁荣，而facebook在适时地推出的F8平台，则让大家看到了web as a platform的价值和威力，最近facebook悄悄开发了flyer广告功能，显然对Google的adsense/adword构成了一定程度的威胁。
昨天刚刚讨论了我们需要一个统一而分散的SNS平台的问题，facebook平台的威力正是让用户可以把多个应用统一到facebook平台上来，从而更完美地展现自己，我相信正是因为facebook的超前的统一平台理念和实现让facebook的价值有了一个飞跃。 不过，“facebook平台”仍然只是“facebook”的平台，而不是一个真正意义上的完全开放和分散的平台，因此可以想象，还有足够多的创新机会在等着未来的创业者去获取，看准这个趋势也许下一个明星就是你。 
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