Facebook Talk

Apparently Facebook has developed a browser toolbar for Firefox 2.0. I for one hate cluttered browsers, so this certainlly isn’t for me, but other out there might enjoy it, so have at it!

It looks like all the huss and fuss over those Facebook Mini Feeds back in September tapered off so much that traffic rose in October by over 15% compared to Septermber’s.

In case you didn’t already notice, those annoying News Feeds on Facebook finally have ads in them. I for one simply collapse the mini-feed box and never look at it, but upon hearing this news, I opened mine up to take a look and sure enough, I was greeted by an ad for the Washington Post. Gee, thanks Facebook!

It seems the vultures are already circling, as some market analysts are claiming that Mark Zuckerberg should have sold Facebook while the price was high in light of the recent drop in traffic numbers. Yet other analysts think if Facebook can somehow hold onto the market share they currently have and show a steady number of traffic over the course of a few years, then Zuckerberg might just get that $2 billion asking price he wanted. As they say, it looks like we’ve entered crunch time folks. You can read the full article here.

Just in case you didn’t need another reminder, employers are readily admiting to using Facebook to “screen out” potential employees. So the next time you think about uploading those pictures of you at the recent Frat party, you might want to think again.

Facebook’s worldwide popularity has started to grow, from Europe to Asia to even Australia. But one Aussie competitor, StudentFace, looks to hold off Facebook by matching each of their moves tit for tat and recently raising the bar even higher - by allowing users to not only upload videos to their profile, but to record them directly off their webcam.

Time will only tell if Facebook matches their efforts in stride.