An update on Microsoft acquiring Facebook found that it is only half true as Microsoft will buy into Facebook by investing 240million into the social-networking website. I am using facebook and it is pretty nice and not clutted up like MySpace, it would be range as an adult MySpace version while MySpace is for teenagers with the fancy templates.
It was claimed that Google was also negotiating with Facebook. I would assume that Google is trying to buyout Facebook and that may be the reason they are turned down. It always look like Google is trying to buyout the whole Internet World when thet never stop acquiring good pieces of newly created websites.
[Source LATimes]
What about friendster? Why they don’t want to acquire friendster? Do you guys know who is the founder of friendster?
Champdog: at that time Google actually purchase something similar with friendster, it is Orkut (http://www.orkut.com). But it is only popular in central America and I think MySpace overtake them be huge leap.
The moved was wrong because OrKut was a invite only program just like Gmail, but it is not suitable and publicity is slower.
I see. Thanks for the great information. I don’t aware of arkut at all.
I won’t know about it if I weren’t in US at that time as it is not popular here at all.