SAN FRANCISCO--Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg takes the stage at 1:45 p.m Thursday here at the Web 2.0 Summit in a talk with John Battelle of Federated Media Publishing. Full Article at Webware
They are in a place where they want to try new things
All of us are increasingly characterized by a body of digital information that's going to live with us all our lives...and it's going to outlast any device we have.
We're looking at the consumer holistically and making sure that they have a great experience, a simplified experience
We are just going to do the best we can in terms of being used by people around the world. On a day-to-day basis, there is no thought to needing to do something to justify a $15-billion valuation.
Growth is our top priority ... The challenge that we have is to bring people along the whole path, first bring people along to Facebook, and make people comfortable with sharing information online.
I think the (Microsoft) deal was more than the investment; it was really a partnership ... A lot of people obsess about the price. They have been a good fit for us. Some people are surprised by that.
We learned from (the platform launch) that we want to do stuff in a slightly more controlled way just so we don't have to make those painful changes that often
Growth is a really important strategic thing for us ... Take France for example. It is really exciting there.
Some people have taken that to mean we don't have a revenue strategy or we're not building anything like that at all.
We got people through this really big hurdle of wanting to put up their full name, picture – their mobile phone number in many cases.
Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO and founder laughs outside the Sun Valley Inn in Sun Valley, Idaho July 9, 2009. View Photo »