"Businesses that promote their Page off-Facebook tend to see a 20% or greater increase in connections.”

This first step toward serving local businesses is an extremely smart maneuver very much like Google’s Place Pages offering. Also, the day that Facebook correlates your physical location in the real world with their local business Pages does not seem too far off.

If Yelp, Google (Google), Fousquare and Facebook all get their way, local business windows will be covered in window decals. Realistically, one decal will prevail and we tend to think Facebook’s more than 400 million userbase and the value of an instant Fan will make Facebook’s offering especially appealing to local business owners.

(“I want a VC who is always thinking a few steps ahead of me”)

Great article on Techcrunch about this new book.
With some wonderful contextual background about the genesis of Twitter. (Jack Dorsey was obsessed with tracking bicycle couriers.)
It's also terrifically encouraging to be persistent.
He started his own bike courier company in St Louis so he could write despatch code, went and worked with a courier company in NY to get better, lugged plasma screens to SXSW to launch/promote Twitter etc.
As best he could, he, and of course his partners, made it happen to the max of their ability.
Add some serendipity, good contacts, focus and commitment = game on.
Awesome stuff.

One of the big things announced at F8 was the roll out of the like button t0 any site with a snippette of code.

This is going to be a HUGE traffic driver for good content, brand offers, relationship building, intrroductions etc, et.. flippin'.. cet.

Introducing good stuff via 'Like' button/trusted source approval on external sites back to Facebook feed.

I'm going to give it a whirl here:

1. How will the twitter community respond?
2. How much money will it make?
3. How effective will ads be for advertisers.
4. Will it usher in a new style of short-form creativity? (What will tweet link to?)