Facebook's twentysomething CEO Mark Zuckerberg made early mistakes but he's learning. A little more than a year ago, the company moved beyond its limited college audience and opened up the network to everyone. In May--and this was a prescient decision--Facebook opened up to let developers write apps for the platform. When Zuckerberg finally decides to sell or take the company public, that decision is going to be worth its weight in gold.
I caught Zuckerberg's talk on a panel discussion earlier this week at a San Francisco conference sponsored by Fortune magazine. Since opening up the platform, he said thousands of applications have been developed on the network.
"It has certainly grown a bit faster than we had originally expected. We thought there would be a lead time," he said. "That whole process got condensed to about a week." It took only a week for the first new application to attract a million users. Now, more than half the users have added an application to their Facebook pages. That's viral with a capital V.
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