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Microsoft paid a hefty price tag - two hundred and forty million dollars - for only a 1.6 percent stake in the sizzling-hot online social networking site, Facebook. By that yardstick, Bill Gates' big guns are reckoning that Facebook's value is worth fifteen billion bucks altogether.

That's right. The richest man in the world and his enormous corporation just sunk hundreds of millions of dollars into a site where people sit around talking about music and movies and writing on each other's "walls." Yahoo and Google also bid to become part of the Facebook phenomenon. Maybe because Facebook embodies Web 3.0, and Web 3.0 (as opposed to Web 2.0) is where internet marketing is headed.

To begin with, Facebook represents a huge shift in online thinking and technology to the big corporations - the face of Web 2.0 / Web 3.0 and the semantic web movement - and they're desperate not to be left behind.

Facebook is adding users at an incredible rate of over two hundred thousand a day to its already large base of fifty million. The website is also a prime example of semantic web development, a function of what's being called Web 3.0, where the operating system within the website becomes more important than the operating system (such as Windows) that's used on your computer itself.

There are over five thousand free "applications," tools like games, quizzes and messaging devices, available on Facebook's interface. These applications continue to transform Facebook into a sort of virtual amusement park, where users can create elaborate personal profiles or surprise their friends with quirky new forms of interaction. Once people log on, they quickly get hooked, and soon friends and family members are signing up as well.

There were 5,000 of these new apps added on to Facebook in a period of six months. Users could now share their favorite music, photos and videos; send a virtual hug or gift to a friend; buy a virtual car and have a "race" with another user, or challenge them to a vampire or werewolf fight. There were enough different applications to appeal to every kind of user - making it personal and customized enough to make it work for anyone.

The infusion of Microsoft cash just means the Facebook juggernaut is not going to slow down. The site is dominating in North America and Western Europe, but wants to up its profile in the rest of the world, as well as double its workforce in the coming year.

The simple secret that the super-corporations miss, however, is that you don't have to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to "own" a piece of or participate in the dazzling Facebook marketing opportunity. There's a much cheaper and easier way for your marketing operation to get a shot at those new and desirable Facebook users.

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