Firefox & Facebook Friday Five!

Filed under: Internet, Mozilla, Browsers

There's slim pickings from the Mozilla camp this week. Other than the release of Lorentz (3.6.4) (out of process plugins!!), there's really nothing Firefoxy to report on. Instead, we're going to roll the Firefox column into another topic starting with the letter 'F': Facebook. Still, hang in there: I'm going to do my best to dredge up some useful and interesting bits for Firefox. There's even a funny, viral-worthy picture at the end!

1. Facebook has Google, and thus dominion of the Internet, in its sights

I'm no stock broker, but I bet Microsoft is thanking its lucky stars. It sure seems like they backed the right horse when they bought a large chunk of Facebook back in 2007 -- people scoffed at Facebook's $15 billion valuation then, but today... no one really knows how much Facebook is worth.

With some 400 million highly-active and loyal users -- 500 billion minutes are spent on Facebook every month -- Facebook looks set to overtake Google as the largest property on the Internet. I think it now becomes more a matter of what Facebook does with its dominion: you've seen the new 'global' Like system and 'interests as Pages', but now you will see monetization. There is speculation that Facebook might be worth hundreds of billions which would put it very close to Google's market valuation. I think we're about to see Google AdSense blown out of the water with Facebook's unrivalled ability to personalize advertising -- I just can't see why businesses would spend money with Google when Facebook can deliver more bang for the buck.

(Incidentally, if you want to get in on the 'universal Liking' thing, Lee just reviewed a great bookmarklet! Go grab it and feed Facebook with your browsing habits!)

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