Michael Arrington wrote recently about Facebook and the mindshare it occupies among Microsoft execs.
One of the more discussed comments was made by Lee Lorenzen at Altura Ventures who asserted that Facebook will be worth $100 billion by the time of its Q4 2008.
Lee and I chatted a bit about that today, and I recently decided to probe the mindset of the business community at large by searching the text archives of the Wall Street Journal archives for key terms.
As we’re hosting a conference that examines Facebook as a business tool, I also want to get a feel for the momentum the topic is experiencing.
As you’ll see in the table below, for the past 12 month period ending Aug 31 2006, there have been 168 articles featuring the string “facebook.” That’s a 366% growth rate. Only Twitter eclipses that growth rate with an impressive 950% increase. Blogging meanwhile grew by 46%.
In addition, I find it compelling that eBay is not that far ahead of Facebook, and (with its growth rate a minus 17%) it may soon be eclipsed by FB.
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