With so many ways to interact with your customers now a days. It bogles my mind why so many companies are not upgrading their website and marketing aproach.

(ok... I'm getting over my head on this one. I wish i had the time to educate the old schoolers.  I'll be back to finish this up. lol)

All i can say is "go with an old web development company and you'll probably get old technology with it."

~John Romano

FACEBOOK(tm) info

BusinessWeek reported on March 28, 2006 that a potential acquisition of the website was under negotiation. Facebook reportedly declined an offer of $750 million, and it was rumored that the asking price rose as high as $2 billion.[29] With the sale of social networking website MySpace to News Corp, rumors surfaced about the possible sale of Facebook to a larger media company.[30] Zuckerberg, the owner of Facebook, had already said that he did not want to sell the company and denied rumors to the contrary.[31] In late September, serious talks between Facebook and Yahoo! took place concerning acquisition of the social network, with prices reaching as high as $1 billion.[32] After Google purchased video-sharing website YouTube, rumors circulated that Google had offered $2.3 billion to outbid Yahoo!.[33] Peter Thiel, a board member of Facebook, indicated that Facebook's internal valuation is around $8 billion based on their projected revenues of $1 billion by 2015, comparable to that of Viacom's MTV brand and based on shared target demographic audience.[34] Other companies, including Google, had also expressed interest in buying a portion of Facebook, but an outright sale of Facebook is unlikely according to founder Mark Zuckerberg, as he would like to keep it independent.[35] "We're not really looking to sell the company," says Zuckerberg. "We're not looking to IPO anytime soon. It's just not the core focus of the company."[14]

MYSPACE

Brad Greenspan/The MySpace Report

In October 2006, Brad Greenspan (the former Chairman, CEO and largest individual shareholder of Intermix Media, who claims to be the true "founder of MySpace") launched a website and published "The MySpace Report" that called for the Securities and Exchange Commission, the United States Department of Justice and the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance to investigate News Corp's acquisition of MySpace as "one of the largest merger and acquisition scandals in U.S. history."[36] The report's main allegation is that News Corp. should have valued MySpace at US$20 billion rather than US$327 million, and had, in effect, defrauded Intermix shareholders through an unfair deal process.[37] The report received a mixed response from financial commentators in the press.[38] An initial lawsuit led by Greenspan challenging the acquisition was dismissed by a judge.[39]

Greenspan's report also states that the MySpace program code had originally been the brainchild of an Intermix/eUniverse programmer named Toan Nguyen who made the breakthrough technical contributions to the project.[40]

Valleywag speculated that Greenspan was likely a key source for Lapinski's September article, "MySpace founder accuses company of defrauding investors of $20 billion."