According to news reports, the majority used social network by worldwide monthly active users Facebook.com may become the next super computer OS for communications.

Facebook is making tactical moves to develop itself into something greater. Last week, it has purchased social sharing service FriendFeed. Moreover, it has upgraded its search engine functionality, and urbanized a new aptitude to share status updates with the complete network in real-time. It has also released in Facebook Lite, a trimmed down version of Facebook which is similar to that of Twitter.

All of these moves work to keep Facebook to establish itself as a must-use platform for every-day Internet users. The really fascinating question is what tactical perspective underpins the Facebook acquisition.

Google's page-rank search technology is fine, but it's still cute primitive-- try looking for a hotel in any Iran town. You could say that search is about 5 percent solved. With 95 percent still to do, many people think the next advances will come from adding social or two-way dimensions to pure computational algorithms.

Facebook's purchase of FriendFeed, an obscure social-media platform, is potentially momentous. To understand why, we must understand FriendFeed, a start-up that is ever-present among techies and unknown to everybody else. It's an application that acts as a clearinghouse for all of your social-media behavior.

Google has long tried to get into the social game, and Facebook surely wouldn't mind expanding into some of Google's province. It's as classic an American move violently as Pepsi vs. Coke. Two companies, one market. Despite which side you choose, Facebook will be happy to air your thoughts on the matter. After all, that's why Facebook bought FriendFeed. So it could own you.

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