Microsoft announced at its annual Financial Analyst Meeting on Thursday that it would provide search services and associated ads for Facebook’s U.S. site.
I think this is a great step forward, and may prove to be more successful than MySpace and Bebo has been for Google and Yahoo, respectively. Despite what people say about social networks being hard to monetize, I think Facebook may be the exception to this trend.
Malcolm Ong is currently the CTO & Co-founder of Skillshare, and a SXSW'i Panel Liaison.
He previously led the Product team at OMGPOP, was a Senior Technologist at Razorfish, an E-commerce Specialist for IBM Global Services, and a graduate of IBM’s Extreme Blue program where he co-filed four patents.
Malcolm holds a B.S. in Computer Science with a double major in Business Administration and minor in E-commerce from Carnegie Mellon University. His interests include: e-commerce, marketplaces, product development / strategy, analytics, mobile LBS, investing, cars / motorsports, music (DJing), and writing in the third person
The thoughts and opinions expressed on this blog do not represent Malcolm's employer.
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