Can Facebook fail?
Andrew Keen - - - - - - Okay, I admit it. I was wrong. Wrong about Facebook, even wrong about Mark Zuckerberg. For the last couple of years, I’ve been imagining Facebook as the next dotcom Titanic, the classically over-hyped Silicon Valley start-up, all youthful bluster, but neither a business model nor any meaningful revenue. With its Twitter obsession and endless rumors of anarchy at its Palo Alto offices (not to mention Ben Mezrich’s less than stellar semi-fictional book about Facebook’s founding), I’ve always assumed that Facebook would fail in some meltdown of historic proportion. - - - - - - But, in a blog post today, Mark Zuckerberg began with some stunning news: - - - - - - “As of today, Facebook now serves 300 million people across the world. It’s a large number, but the way we think about this is that we’re just getting started on our goal of connecting everyone.” - - - - - - Just started on connecting everyone? Wow. You’ve got to admire the boy’s chut...