Then later in the evening I’m hosting a party at Townsquare. I do this every second month with my brother in a trendy nightclub in Somerset West called Townsquare Fusion bar. Facebook RSVP details here.

24.com are now partners with BWCOM. Mybroadband published the scoop - you can catch it here

This is huge for BWCOM and we look forward to collaborating with 24.

Some quotes from the scoop

24.com CEO Russel Hanley says that the acquisition gives the company access to both Blueworld’s established online community and their social networking technology.

Hanley highlighted the fact that Blueworld Communities’ audience is complimentary to the 24.com audience and they will definitely look at synergies in future. The 24.com CEO further pointed out that the Blueworld Communities technology will enable them to target certain niche social media markets in future.

“We are very excited to be a part of the 24.com family and look forward to leveraging their assets to further expand our social network’s market reach.,” said Charl Norman from Blueworld Communities.

“We also have a very strong youth demographic which compliments 24.com’s older user base. We are very proud of the social media platform we have built and look forward to exploring synergies between our technology and existing 24.com brands to further expand our niche social network strategy.”

I can’t say much but watch this space !

I’m doing a small talk about building and managing social networks next week at Dave Duarte’s Technomadic Markets course at the UCT Graduate school of Business. Other speakers include big names such as Mike Stopforth, Vincent Maher, Eric Edelstein, Paul Jacobson, Tyler Reed, Alan Kent and offcourse Dave Duarte.

Nomadic Marketing is a 3-Day executive Education Course being held at the UCT Graduate School of Business from 16 to 18 April 2008. Learn how to engage a dynamic, global market online with a strategic look at new trends and technologies such as blogs, social-networks and mobile applications.

Here’s the Technomadic Marketing wrap up video from Zoopy

… and Foxinni playing Wii in the Blueworld office when he’s suppose to be working d:

Did you know Mark Zuckerberg allegedly verbally agreed to sell Facebook to Yahoo! or Friendster tried to acquire Facebook for $10 Mil? Check out these interesting early Facebook history facts -

1. With millions more users, Friendster attempted to acquire the company for $10 million in mid 2004. Facebook turned down the offer and subsequently received $12.7 million in funding from Accel Partners, at a valuation of around $100 million.
2. In the summer of 2006, Yahoo attempted to acquire the company for $1 billion dollars. Reports actually indicated that Zuckerberg made a verbal agreement to sell Facebook to Yahoo!. A few days later when Yahoo!’s stock price took a dive, the offer was lowered to $800 million and Zuckerberg walked away from the deal. Yahoo! later offered $1 billion again, this time Zuckerberg turned Yahoo! down and earned instant notoriety as the “kid” who turned down a billion.
3. Facebook is the 6th most trafficked site in the US and top photo sharing site with 4.1 billion photos uploaded.
4. Facebook is the 5th most valuable US Internet company, yet with only $150 million in annual revenue.
5. With this success, Zuckerberg, Moskowitz and Hughes moved out to Palo Alto for the summer and rented a sublet. A few weeks later, Zuckerberg ran into the former cofounder of Napster, Sean Parker. Parker soon moved in to Zuckerberg’s apartment and they began working together. Parker provided the introduction to their first investor, Peter Thiel, cofounder of PayPal and managing partner of the Founders Fund. Thiel invested $500,000 into Facebook.

Source CrunchBase

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