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Microsoft paid a hefty price tag - two hundred and forty million dollars - for only a 1.6 percent stake in the sizzling-hot online social networking site, Facebook. By that yardstick, Bill Gates’ big guns are reckoning that Facebook’s value is worth fifteen billion bucks altogether.

The online community Facebook is who Microsoft paid the big bucks to - and the deal suddenly gave Facebook an estimated value of around 15 billion bucks! What exactly does Facebook have that Microsoft - reportedly along with other online giants Yahoo! and Google - are so desperate to get a piece of? More importantly, how can you get the same thing for nothing?

To begin with, Facebook represents a huge shift in online thinking and technology to the big corporations - the face of Web 2.0 / Web 3.0 and the semantic web movement - and they’re desperate not to be left behind.

Facebook is adding users at an incredible rate of over two hundred thousand a day to its already large base of fifty million. The website is also a prime example of semantic web development, a function of what’s being called Web 3.0, where the operating system within the website becomes more important than the operating system (such as Windows) that’s used on your computer itself.

Facebook’s interface provides over five thousand free Facebook tools, called “applications,” that allow the user a dizzying array of activities, games, quizzes, sharing and messaging devices to either interact with their “friends” or just to augment their own personal profiles. It’s this kind of personal playground atmosphere that’s attracted so many new people to the Facebook family.

There were 5,000 of these new apps added on to Facebook in a period of six months. Users could now share their favorite music, photos and videos; send a virtual hug or gift to a friend; buy a virtual car and have a “race” with another user, or challenge them to a vampire or werewolf fight. There were enough different applications to appeal to every kind of user - making it personal and customized enough to make it work for anyone.

No wonder Microsoft opened up their wallet so wide. Facebook just might be the “perfect storm” of marketing opportunity that the super-corporations are searching high and low for - and willing to pay what it takes to be in the mix.

What this means is Facebook is an online marketing opportunity that is unparalleled on the internet today. That’s why Microsoft wrote that big check - but the good news is you can access what they’re getting, without that kind of price tag.

The secret is to use a Facebook Bot or Facebook Friend Adder. Once such “bot,” called Stealth Friend Bomber, Facebook Edition, can send your marketing message to the masses with tools like Mass Facebook Friend Pokes, Mass Facebook Friend Requests and Mass Facebook Friend Messages. Enabling the smaller marketer to play on the same field as Bill Gates and the other big boys, this Facebook Friend Adder is the must-have Facebook marketing software of 2007. With the new Facebook Bot Stealth Friend Bomber, you’ll add new Facebook friends to your marketing base until you’ve poked everyone on the site with your marketing message.

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