So the world has changed a little bit in the past number of days here. Mark Zuckernuts has set himself out on a course to get pretty rich pretty quick, and all the world has got to do is sit on their collective lazy asses and soak up all the instant gratification any company in the world wants to spoon feed to your LCD.

So if you’ve not read any news in the past few days the story is that someone has moved towards open source with something that worked, and wasn’t broken. He’s well aware that other people are going to make loads of dough from his invention but it’s not tough to calculate that he is going to be making loads more than that, he’s set to become a bit of a mogul with respect to managing the average net user’s use of internet applications.

Facebook.com is a website that has about 20 million users, half of whom visit the website every single day. It’s owned by some kid who is pretty smart and has done a few cool things with his time. His website was one version out of about a million social network sites, the appealing difference was that there is a bit of control over what information gets disbursed to the masses and is short on:

• Goths and EMOs (read Nexopia)
• people looking for sex (read Hi5)
• vomit inducing layouts and color schemes (read MySpace)
• fake people that don’t actually exist (read Orkut)
• Uuber long loading times (read Friendster)

Besides not having anything wrong with it, Facebox didn’t offer much to the world ahead of any of these other websites. You can keep tabs on what other people are doing with their time, find out what your friends talk about when you’re not around, and get a gauge on who’s interested in who… etc. (along with a few not so creepy things, like sharing photos and discussing triathlon gear, nutrition and race strategies)

Now Facebook will allow companies to piggyback on their framework in such a way that caters to users as they please. It’s kinda like building the google toolbox, the msn/hotmail world or the yahoo system from a different slant that sets Zuckerturd up to make a killing on advertising. It’s a self categorizing advertisement distribution tool, and as far as I’m concerned advertising seems to be the best way to make money with the internet at the moment unless you want to run a real business and sell stuff, but who really wants to put out that kind of effort?