Facebook looks to become the indispensible social website

August 17, 2009

As one of the most popular websites on the internet, Facebook has reached the status of Google in at least one respect. When Facebook does something, everybody hears about it.

The social networking site has created a lot of buzz in the past week by snapping up the start-up internet company FriendFeed, revamping its search function and announcing Monday that it is hooking up with Huffington Post through Facebook Connect.

Arianna Huffington, the founder of HuffPost, announced on the Facebook blog that the service
HuffPost Social News will connect Facebook friends to facilitate conversations about the news they read on the news aggregation and blog site.

The New York Times reported last week that Netscape founder Marc Andreessen, whose web 1.0 browser lost out to Microsoft's Internet Explorer in the '90s, is planning to launch a new web browser in conjunction with Facebook.

The idea is for Facebook to become an indispensible website, where users access all of the things they do online from the same place.

"When you become the site that people spend enough hours on every day, it's very natural to take advantage of that and to become the site that provides all the services that portals provide," explained Haim Mendelson, a Stanford University business professor, according to Reuters.

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