Homo Viator

He is the current Silicon Valley Wiz Kid, the youngest self-made Billionaire that the world has ever seen. His company has been valued at 15 Billion and he just turned 23 years old. He mostly wears blue Adidas plastic slippers and North Face sweaters-none of those companies pay him for that. He created Facebook, a site that lets us enjoy much of what real life has to offer-just in an online setting that is way more effective. Apart from allowing you to follow the lives of those who are important to you, step by step with visual appeal, it also offers one-to-one communication, one-to-many communication, group gatherings and group organisation, all in the most efficient way possible.

And then there are the thousands of applications of course. Most of them are still bullocks, but believe me: that will change! Maybe the Wiz Kid will deliver what some expect from him. A site that offers such a generic and expandable platform with such usage rates could incorporate much more than stupid Vampire applications. I am sure you will see more and more familiar web applications integrate to facebook. People share much more over the Web than what facebook lets you currently do on its platform. Why look for that right book that meets your interest on Amazon, if you can get testimonials that really matter to you on facebook, with direct access to buy that book from Amazon. Facebook does not only allow you to share your interests with friends, but it also gives you the chance to find people with similar interests. There are millions of groups on facebook and I hope that the functionalities of these groups will increase in the future.

Anyway, meet the Wiz Kid now: Mark Zuckerberg. He rarely gives interviews and is said to suffer from severe fear of speaking in front of crowds. There exists only very little footage of his keynote itv at SXSW. The interview was a disaster, but not because of him. It was the BusinessWeek editor who messed up. The blogosphere has bashed the interviewer like there is no tomorrow. Check out an interesting critique of the interviewmethods of the interviewer and what to learn from her mistakes.

Below a great scrapbook visual that one blogger created on the content of the full itv.

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