Facebook is coming to a couple of European countries in the 1st half of 2008.
German business newspaper Handelsblatt had the exclusive story.

Founder Mark Zuckerberg is expanding Facebook i.e. to Germany.

According to the German business newspaper Handelsblatt Facebook will expand with some localized versions to Europe. This was confirmed by Net Jacobsson.

"Im ersten oder zweiten Quartal werden wir in mehreren europäischen Ländern Seiten in deren Heimatsprache starten. Darunter ist auch Deutschland." sagte Net Jacobsson, Direktor für das Auslandsgeschäft, dem Handelsblatt.

"In the 1st or 2nd quarter we will start pages in multiple European countries in their home language. Germany is among them." said Net Jacobsson, foreign business officer, to the Handelsblatt.

The European Facebook clone StudiVZ (students) and the business network XING (formerly known as OpenBC, more business related) should better be warned.

The better title is: Building a nice Facebook profile page from your existing content with F8 applications. But that's too long for a catchy title :)

Yesterday evening I logged into my Facebook account and stared at my Facebook profile page. It was pretty boring and I decided to tweak it. But the content should come from existing pages and services.

Use the Facebook F8 applications

First question was which services to use to pull nice content into my profile page. I can offer some valuable sources:

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If you've never heard of Facebook, it's time to get your head out of the sand. Facebook is a networking site that has over 24 million active viewers. That's 24 million people who go on that site a day. That's 24 million people you could be offering your product or service too.

If you have joined, great. I hope you're not one of those people who have the fun wall, and other unprofessional things. If you are, you might want to think about having a personal account and having a business account. I know that Facebook frowns on this, but really you need to make sure you stay professional. Do you really want your potential employer to see you drunk with a cigarette at the latest club? Or even worse a picture of you doing drugs? You may cringe, but people are doing this on Facebook everyday, and using their real names.

Potential employers and clients, ones who are savvy, do punch in your name on Google or Facebook to see what they find. Wouldn't you rather have your business profile show up?

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Dane Cook Saved My Life

The true story of young David Schwartz, who in the winter of 2005, found himself without a job, without a family and without money. He lived on rice and white bread for six weeks, until...Dane Cook arrived in NYC and saved his life...Now...

You can read it all at dcsml.blogspot.com
or you can find his group Dane Cook Saved My Life on facebook.

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