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Old 05-01-2010, 06:40 AM  
Odin
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Originally Posted by CunningStunt View Post
That skateboard animation is only 41 frames. Incredible. Very nicely done.

I can't for the life of me see how Facebook could prevent it being manipulated on a wholesale scale by cluey webmasters setting up / buying thousands of bogus accounts. For what goal though? No-one I know searches for anything on FB as if it's a search engine.

My hunch - they are doing it specifically to get Google to buy them.
Facebook is waaay past the "get a google or yahoo to buy me phase" they are on their way to being bigger (traffic wise) then both. This is a major threat to google, and to be honest I am surprised Google didn't respond to Facebook much much much more aggressively over a year ago. The writing was on the wall. There is a long way to go for Facebook, but give them another couple of years and I really wouldn't be surprised if they turned out a fantastic search engine enhanced with social features and rankings. Google better get their act together with Google profiles/buzz, etc fast.

Last edited by Odin; 05-01-2010 at 06:43 AM..
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