SAN FRANCISCO, May 24 — With an ambitious strategy for expansion, Facebook is getting in MySpace’s face.Facebook, has become the Internet’s second-largest social network. It was originally popular on college campuses, but over the last year it has opened its dorm-room doors to all, and its membership rolls have exploded at triple-digit growth rates.
Based in Palo Alto, Calif., it is inviting thousands of technology companies and programmers to contribute features to its service. They are even allowing them to make a profit from the site’s users by doing so, and, at least for now, Facebook will not take a cut.
Some of the new features will allow members to recommend and listen to music, insert Amazon book reviews onto their pages, play games and join charity drives, all without leaving the site.
The result of these new options are expected to be a proliferation of new tools and activities instead of the same old online connections, sharing photos and planning events of it’s current 24 million customers!
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder, says he wants his site to be a “social operating system” for the Internet.
This move could foster some of the chaotic creativity that is more closely associated with MySpace! Facebook’s largest competitor is Myspace! Unfortunately it could also open the door to hazards like spam, and make Facebook’s identity less clear.
MySpace remains nearly three times the size of Facebook, with 67 million active members! Facebook is hoping that this new system will allow its members the flexibility that Myspace allows and this will encourage more consumers to join.
I belong to both Facebook and Myspace and i have to say that i prefer myspace, it is much more user friendly and more pleasant to operate. I look forward to the new upgrades being applied to Facebook.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/25/technology/25social.html?ex=133...=f2f174b3138314fe&ei=5088
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