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i think facebook should start getting serious ABOUT playing games. - Zee.

There's a potentially killer revenue source there. - Zee.

Facebook should get serious about making some money, in whatever way possible, because their burn rate is going to send them to the scrap heap before too long if they don't. - Jason Carreira

@Jason Carreira - Facebook doesn't lose money, except for additional investments they make. If there were problems ahead, which clearly aren't, they could go the MySpace-route and stop developing the site. (Ok, MySpace woke up since Facebook started the its platform. But before that, they only did maintenance.) - sebmos

Do you have a link that says they don't lose money? Last I heard they were borrowing an additional $100 million to buy more hardware, and the Microsoft ad revenue has been disappointing. I'd be glad to be wrong because I think the impending collapse of FB will be a bubble-bursting event for Web 2.0... - Jason Carreira

If Facebook wants to be a business utility it must change to serve people like Buzz Bruggeman, CEO of ActiveWords. He has 12,000 contacts in Outlook. He can't move them to FB. So it remains a place to play games and not do real business. - Robert Scoble

@Zee - You totally hit that nail. I *tried* to use FB for serious stuff ... it didn't work. Now I just play Arrested Development trivia on there. Works for me. - Laura Norvig

It strikes me as a little ridiculous to see "[service] must change to serve [insert extreme edge case here]". Plenty of people are, obviously, not that guy, and don't need that capacity/capability. Would it be nice to be able to accommodate every edge case? Sure. Practical and necessary, right now, in the grand scheme of things? Not so much. - abacab

Yeah, unfortunately "revenue" is an edge case in Web 2.0 - Jason Carreira