OpenSocial is an alliance of different network sites collaborated by Google to tackle the competition from Facebook. The API shall give developers access to: Profile Information Friends Information Activities Sites that are part of OpenSocial include: Orkut LinkedIn hi5 Friendster Plaxo Ning Oracle Saleforce OpenSocial is expected to bring together 100 million users, almost double [...]

This to-be launched service is partnered between Best Buy and Mydeo. It is an online service to upload home movies and videos. There are different plans available. Cheapest Plan Rent per month: $6.97 Total video length: 100 minutes Time limit for one video: 30 minutes Cap on page-views: 5000 Costliest Plan Rent per month: $148 [...]

Yahoo Messenger is soon set to topple AOL’s AIM as the leading IM service in the US AIM User base in US: 30.2 million Growth past year: 2% Yahoo Messenger User base in US: 27.7 million Growth past year (US): 19% Worldwide user base: 94.3 million Growth past year (world): 30% World Leader in Instant [...]

User base of Facebook in December 2006: 12 million User base of Facebook in October 2007: 47 million Number of applications developed by third-party developers: 6000

Yes. It’s a BIG market. Casual Games Association report states: Revenues generated in casual games per year: $2.5 Billion Growth rate of the casual games industry: 20% Population playing casual games online per month: 200 Million Male:Female ratio of members: 48.3: 51.7 Percentage females in paid games category: 74%

Looks like Google pushed MS to do so by engaging in a bid war though Google was uninterested in Facebook. Microsoft acquired 1.6 percent stake valuing Facebook at $15 billion Estimated revenues from Facebook: $150 million A $15 billion valuation is 100 times this revenue Approximate user base: 50 million Microsoft’s perceived Facebook value per [...]

Developers of Facebook applications may choose their own monetizing model. Adbrite is one of the popular choices. Number of Facebook applications using Adbrite: 100 approx. Pageviews Adbrite received through Facebook apps: 43.8 million (September) Average pageviews received by Adbrite through new Facebook channel: 10 million per day

Percentage Ad budget spent online (2007) 17% Percent Satisfied with advertising options 40% Percent confident about choosing the right option 5% Percent Unsure about advertising through blogging and social networking 67% Percentage Ad budget spent on local search 7% Percentage that feel print ads are more effective 14% Percent respondents who take decision of ad-formats [...]

Yahoo owns 39% stake in local ecommerce site, Alibaba.com. The money invested was $1.4 billion. The value of the investment is now $3.4 billion. Alibaba has now gone public at the HongKong stock exchange. 17% of its stake was sold in 858.9 million shares, each at a value of $1.75. Alibaba has hence raised $1.5 [...]

Get if from US, if possible. Deal you get in Canada (December 7, 2007 onward) Selling price                    $499 CAD ($520 USD) Network                          Rogers Wireless for Three years Deal you get in US Selling price                    $399 USD Nework                           AT&T for Two years