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Facebook Plans To Show Ads On Websites

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-it-gets-interesting dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Facebook is planning to compete directly with Google by working on an update for its ad platform. Facebook will be offering webmasters to place facebook ads on their websites."

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  1. Good by ciderbrew · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Maybe it will die as a product and I can go back to using something better for organising events with people. One large message box sure is fun.

    1. Re:Good by gnick · · Score: 4, Interesting

      I think that's a normal life-cycle.

      Have a good idea, promote it, get popular, get ingrained with your users, cash in, cash out, die. Seems to work.

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    2. Re:Good by ciderbrew · · Score: 2

      ^ Yeap. I am free to organize as i wish, but I wouldn't be able to talk to the people I need to. Face book is great for one to many; but it is awful for many to many and oh I just need to subdivide that bit of many into two bits. etc. ect... tce...

    3. Re:Good by Jugalator · · Score: 2

      Maybe it will die as a product and I can go back to using something better for organising events with people. One large message box sure is fun.

      Why would it die? To the contrary, even if I dislike ads as anyone else, I have to admit that a hundred million-large social networking backing an ad platform seems like a powerful weapon against AdWords. And if successful, it'll do the opposite of killing it, with even more company acquisitions, etc.

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    4. Re:Good by Jugalator · · Score: 4, Insightful

      For those of us who desire organizing groups of people online - Facebook is pretty much the only option.

      I wonder how they did it before Facebook?

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    5. Re:Good by ackthpt · · Score: 3, Funny

      I think that's a normal life-cycle.

      Have a good idea, promote it, get popular, get ingrained with your users, cash in, cash out, die. Seems to work.

      Can't see why not. That's Myspace for you.

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    6. Re:Good by bdcrazy · · Score: 2

      I had a similar thing to the calls about not having activated onstar in my car i bought used. But what if you are in an accident and can't call for help? I either get outside help or i die. The person on the other end of the phone let out a gasp. Somehow unable to comprehend not spending money to get onstar setup/monthly fees. I also had a revelation that just because i have a phone with me all the time doesn't mean you can get a hold of me at any second either. Kinda strange stuff these days apparently.

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    7. Re:Good by Sparhawk2k · · Score: 2

      I wonder how they did it before Facebook?

      That's missing the point. What they're saying is that people they're trying to invite now only use Facebook. And don't necessarily respond to other options. I'm sure you could call every single person (if you even have their number since some people don't bother sharing that as much these days) but even then the people aren't getting Facebook reminders so they might not remember it.

    8. Re:Good by davester666 · · Score: 2

      Well, it sure worked great for AOL and MySpace.

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    9. Re:Good by countertrolling · · Score: 2

      They didn't. It was total anarchy and chaos, and two world wars. Facebook moved the doomsday clock back a whole hour..

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  2. Here it comes by Flyerman · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The complete monetization of your information. Utilizing cookies and IP addresses obtained via the millions of facebook "like" buttons, cross-referenced with your own postings and the postings of your friends and family; Facebook will deliver advertisements using anyone's likeness on every webpage who subscribes to their service.

  3. Ok so rumor. Details are where? by garcia · · Score: 5, Insightful

    From the blog post:

    There is another twist to this story. Facebook is guarding this news and it is not letting anyone leak it out until they announce it in near future. According to my source, Facebook might launch a broader Facebook Ads platform later this year.

    Basically there is nothing to see here so you can move on now. But! If you want to join the rumor mill here we go:

    1. Are the payouts going to be competitive with AdSense's? I make more than enough yearly via AdSense to get taxed on the income. Will it be worth it for me to add Facebook too?

    2. Will Facebook (or conversely Google) allow me to run both AdSense and FBAds concurrently or will I have to pick one or the other (see #1).

    3. Are general users visiting my website more likely to click FBAds than AdSense? Will they be textual and thus fit into my content better or will we be looking at a lot of images/Flash?

    So many questions and no answers in the linked content. Boo.

  4. Let me guess... by msauve · · Score: 2

    Their slogan will be "Do be evil."

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  5. Competition is good but... by mackil · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ... will it work? Yahoo! tried this back in 2005 and it failed miserably. Too much promised up front with too little returned. Publishers dropped it like a potato before Yahoo! could improve the contextual workings to increase the CTR. I know because I tried it, and quickly discarded it.

    Lesson is, don't promise something you can't deliver, or are planning to deliver at a later date. Odds are, publishers will return to the "tried and true" and never look back.

  6. Will it get past AdBlock Plus? by NixieBunny · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If not, then I don't expect to notice a change in the Internet.

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