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Facebook Really Goes IPO

• Facebook Files for an I.P.O. (NYT)

• Facebook IPO Filing, by the Numbers (WSJ)

• Facebook Files For $5 Billion IPO (TC)

Facebook Goes IPO

Baseline (and a view what happens outside of this picture business):

• Revenues from ads only:
  • $3.8bn (est.)
• Offering:
  • $10bn
• Valuation:
  • $75bn - $100bn

Source: WSJ, Facebook Readies IPO Filing

Related (from Bloomberg):

• Facebook 2010 Sales Said Likely to Reach $2 Billion (Dec.16, 2010)
• Facebook Revenue Will Reach $4.27 Billion, EMarketer Says (Sept. 20, 2011)

Google+ For Marketing, PR, BizDev, Microstock Google+ Replacing Blogs (Some Early Mixed Thoughts)

A few hours ago Kevin Rose came up with the idea of simply forwarding his blog to his new Google+ account.

 

Kevin Rose is not anyone, he is the co-founder of Digg, and he only received a few hundreds comments and shares for this sentence.

Serban Enache on Dreamstime and Facebook

Following the news about the cooperation between Dreamstime and MySpace from last autumn, the next new cooperation with Facebook was early discussed.

So I asked Serban down-to-earth about the benefits:

"We have always been loyal to the community element that promoted Dreamstime as a leader in stock photography. Ignoring the potential of social networking would be unwise, especially considering our history.

Recent stats conducted by Nielsen show that over 2/3 of the Internet population is using social networking nowadays and that the means of communication have switched here against email. Compete has ranked Facebook as the most popular social network followed by MySpace. The two websites advertise together over half of billion registered users."

QuickLinks For 2009-02-17

• UGCX Conference:
  If you couldn´t travel to San Jose, here are some media files and press coverage:
  
  • Keynote by the iStock guys (120 MB)
  • UGCX video interviews (thanks, Lee)
  • General press coverage on the UGCX website
  Thank God, the autumn event is in Boston.

• Be wary of Facebook...:
  On Feb. 4th, Facebook changed their terms of service (without telling anyone, because their terms of service give them the right to do so).
  Basically, the biggest change is that whatever content is uploaded to Facebook belongs to them FOREVER, and that remains true even if the person that posted the content leaves the site.
  Needless to say, that means that any image you upload on Facebook becomes theirs to sell and use as they wish.
  Folco Banfi (thanks Achilles).
  Related:
  • On Facebook, People Own and Control Their Information (Mark Zuckerberg)
  • "We have never claimed ownership" of members' content (Industry Standard)
  • (Update Feb. 20): Facebook Withdraws Changes in Data Use (NYT):
    "After three days of pressure from angry users ... the company reversed changes".
    This kind of behaviour would currently be helpful in the microstock industry...