[LINK] With Now 400 Million Users, Should Facebook Qualify for a seat in the United Nations

[Tom Koltai]

Thank-you David - I shall Update the article.
Damned if I know how I transposed the numbers.
The dangers of blogging without an editor......

Tom

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> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of David Goldstein
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> Subject: Re: [LINK] With Now 400 Million Users, Should 
> Facebook Qualify for a seat in the United Nations
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> 
> Try 300 million users. See 
> http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=136782277130 or 
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2009/sep/15/facebook
> -300-million.
> 
> David
> 
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> ----- Original Message ----
> > From: Tom Koltai <tomk at unwired.com.au>
> > To: link at anu.edu.au
> > Sent: Wednesday, 16 September, 2009 2:03:15 PM
> > Subject: [LINK] With Now 400 Million Users, Should Facebook Qualify 
> > for a seat in the United Nations
> > 
> > Link members will be aware that I have been looking closely at P2P 
> > over the last few months.
> > 
> > Recently I have shut down the Australian P2P Research 
> Server, because 
> > the Game appears to be set and Match to Facebook.
> > 
> > An article (anecdotal data at this stage, I'm afraid) I just blogged
> > said:
> > 
> > Facebook has done more for détente and political stability than any 
> > other single group of individuals. It has attracted 400 
> million users.
> > The Applications have encouraged perfect strangers to 
> extend trust and
> > comradeship in the pursuance of a common goal.
> > It has given those users a platform to express themselves freely.
> > 
> > My own collection of P2P statistics shows that less users 
> are on the 
> > P2Pnetworks every day.
> > 
> > It would appear that Facebook games and other social interaction 
> > applications are the new Media choice for the masses. Which kind of 
> > make sense. The average run of a TV show is between 13 and 
> 22 episodes 
> > a year. The average Facebook game rises to prominence, achieves 
> > saturation and then declines over a four to six month period.
> > 
> > With 200,000 applications and over 20,000 developers, Facebook is 
> > rubbing shoulders with Warner, Fox, Disney and Universal. 
> It’s eyeball 
> > numbers have already exceeded all of the US Television Network 
> > audiences and will next impact cinema attendance. 
> Advertisers would do 
> > well to recognise the eventuality that increased Facebook 
> utilisation 
> > will force them to transfer their focus from direct product based 
> > advertorial to sponsorship based trademark and brand development.
> > 
> > So it would appear that we have gone full circle to return to the 
> > advertising meme of the early Television years, except with a new 
> > transmission platform; Facebook.
> > 
> > The Facebook Top 50 applications changes on a daily basis.
> > Hardware and network restrictions automatically apply brakes to the
> > continued rapid growth on an hourly basis which is in fact a self
> > limiting environmental censorship that creates new 
> opportunities for the
> > smaller application developers.
> > 
> > Here’s the Top fifty Apps – As at Midnight last night


> > 
> > Chart here-- 
> > http://www.perceptric.com/blog/_archives/2009/9/16/4322789.html
> > 
> > Yep, that's 89 million per day with a monthly users total 
> for only the 
> > top 60 applications of 547,440,423.
> > 
> > That's a lot of people with a common purpose. To be 
> entertained in a 
> > socially enjoyable environment and not be bludgeoned to death with 
> > editorial opinion or advertising.
> > 
> > We’ll try keep on top of this – as much as possible and show the 
> > differences in the applications and attempt to identify the 
> memes in 
> > the coming weeks.
> > 
> > Conclusion:
> > 
> > Facebook is killing traditional media.
> > Facebook is killing P2P.
> > 
> > 
> > 
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