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Wow- Tipping Point all in about 2 weeks.

It has been quiet on the Internet front until the past couple of weeks.
Now it’s war.
Facebook gets a $750,000,000.00 equity investment from Microsoft and two equity capital firms.
Facebook introduces social ads on top of their ‘open’ platform for development within Facebook.
Google heads past 10,000 licensed traditional publishers and adds new libraries all the time.
Google heads past $700.00 a share during a market drop.
MySpace acquires Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal.
Thomson continues work on the major acquisition of Reuters.
Google announces today that MySpace, Bebo and SixApart (who sold us the software for this blog) have joined Google OpenSocial – their new “open” platform for development anywhere. Read more here or here.
Addition: The list of partners mentioned seemed to have grown a bit: Engage.com, Friendster, hi5, Hyves, imeem, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Oracle, orkut, Plaxo, Salesforce.com, Six Apart, Tianji, Viadeo, and XING.
We are about to see the biggest transformation of the web experience since people thought e-mail, or search or content were kings. Killer apps?!
AND! The Canadian dollar has soared past the US $ for the first time in years. Time to shop on the road again – just bought a new leather jacket (actually 2!!).
And the first US Boomer allied for their pension.
Strap yourself in, the rest of 2007 and 2008 are going to be a fine ride. Enjoy.
Stephen

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Posted on: November 1, 2007, 11:33 pm Category: Uncategorized

By: stephen

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  1. Marina Jiménez Piano said
    on November 3, 2007 2:52 pm

    The changes in the Internet world are so fast that it’s very difficult to be up-of-date. But your blog is useful for this matter. In the so named “open” web, Google is now the absolute king. But libraries have started to fight, and they have a very important role.
    In Spain, the libraries must have a long way to improve their functions and we are working to achieve this goal.

  2. Jon Husband said
    on November 7, 2007 11:01 am

    It’s hard not to think that Google announcement re: OpenSocial will have taken a lot of wind out of Microsoft’s sails re: Facebook.
    I’m half willing to bet that they just kept waiting at Google to announce until after Microsoft made its move 😉