… there’s buzz about a bidding war between Microsoft and Google. For what? A piece of Facebook. A small piece. Five percent. For, oh, $500 million.

Which, if my math skills haven’t totally deteriorated in the face of such insanity, suggests that Microsoft and Google think Facebook might be worth somewhere in the neighborhood of, oh, around $10 billion.

Maybe eBay ought to get in on the price war.

Takeaway for (myopic) marketers (with fat checkbooks): I crunched the numbers. Given Facebook’s traffic relative to the dollars Microsoft and Google are discussing, LOHAD should command somewhere between a quarter-million and a half-million bucks on the open market. *ahem* That “Send me mail” link on the left over there is not a dead link.

This entry was posted on Monday, October 8th, 2007 at 6:00 am and is filed under Internet Stuff, Marketing Takeaways, Social Media.