Microsoft, Google, Yahoo to Buy Facebook?

I know that Microsoft, Google and Yahoo have social networks of sorts but since I don't belong to them I almost don't believe them ;-) How is that for a nice serious introduction. Or perhaps to put it another way, if they want me to join their network then I guess the easiest way is to just buy facebook.

Facebook is a platform - to some degree an organizing system. It is a little tricky because the organizing system of facebook runs on multiple operating systems - the Web being the proxy operating system I suppose. Also, is not everything really an organizing system in the first place. From a wrecking yard to a dresser in your home we are surrounded by organizing systems. All tucking things into a hierarchy. Our computer filing system is also an organizing system. So what does facebook do that is more than a filing system. It lets other people see what we have filed. It lets us share in games which is really a story along with stored data. Anyway - all this stuff is a little well, off topic maybe - but probably more important in the end - see http://www.nodism.org for more discussion.

So... the question might be, who will be most scared of losing out to the next potential leader of the organizing system - and the answer might be whoever buys facebook. In a more positive light... the question is who believes facebook is doing a very decent job and wants to spend a few billion for it. Sound crazy, but if you had a few extra billion, it might be the easiest way to 10 years of smooth sailing. Who do you think people will say will buy facebook and who do you say will buy facebook. Please vote in the predict-a-poll:

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iPod Touch, iWatch, iRing, iPaper, iDot, iFuture?

How will we progress using apple's iTechnology trademarks...

The iWatch, iRing and iDot would be useful if it involved a projection or a hologram making the display bigger than its area.

I've had a thought of instead of implants, using onplants. This would be items glued to the skin with a gel that might last for a week or two and would seem less invasive than implants. It could help with technology like an iDot or a microcomputer (soon a nanocomuter) being fixed to the wrist or back of finger. Or for a phone, something glued into the outer ear area and then the microphone or nanophone glued like a beauty mark. I know what would be good for this but I am keeping it secret for a bit.

The iPaper is an obvious winner if there is not holotechnology yet as it has a larger screen - this would be OLED rollup. So without further delay - what do you think 2020 will be like? Take the Tapoll predict-a-poll and predict how other people will answer the poll at the same time you vote!

Dan

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Facebook More Pages Served than MySpace

This Tapoll predict-a-poll asks whether facebook will out-perform MySpace with respect to pages served within a year's time.

For those of you who have not been on facebook in a while - if that is possible - I mean, once you are on you tend to get hooked - unless you recognize this and purposefully stop. But for those of you who have not been on in a while, they have added "Applications" which are like widgets, components, extra features, etc. These are really taking off now with hundreds of thousands of takers getting horoscopes, trip logs, free gifts, flickr pics, super pokes, etc. The pages are starting to appear more customized and all of a sudden there is 20 times if not more to do. This has its pros and cons but I expect for the masses, it is a pro.

What do you think? And what do you predict other people will think...

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