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Steven Rothberg, President and Founder CollegeRecruiter.com career site

1) Take on Roommates.com by adding the ability to say what you are looking for, what you are offering, etc. I used Roommates.com successfully 2 years ago and see no reason the features cannot be incorporated into Facebook

2) Take on Monster.com and others. You can even add restricted viewing so employers can only see a cover sheet, resume, CV, work history, references, etc. Again, this can be easily incorporated into the Facebook framework as is.

3) A central marketplace to hawk your wares. If nothing else, add the ability to buy/sell/trade books and lab materials to others. This ties in with a couple other ideas regarding classroom specifics.

4) Take on PickaProf.com. In addition to simply listing the classes you are enrolled in currently, have a permanent page that shows each semester schedule you have had in the past. This not only allows you to see your progress (or lack thereof) but it helps build the all-important social rolodex you can use later for business contacts (i.e. you can see who is specialized in a certain field with you even if you weren’t friends at the time).

5) Now that this permanent list of classes has been created, you can go on to say who you had for a prof, rating them in the process (hence the tie-in with PickaProf). In fact, adding the ability to list the books you used in the course could give Facebook devs the ability to link to Amazon.com and receive referral compensation.

These are the main things that stick out right now. I’ve goofed around with all the other major sites (including MySpace, Friendster, Orkut and Xuqa) but still come back to Facebook due to simplicity and elegance (I am certified to use that word).

Note: It’ll be interesting to see how Google integrates the Dodgeball service into Orkut, perhaps this is something Facebook devs can work on as well. In fact, in the long-run I wouldn’t be surprised to see a social networking site combine a blog, an RSS reader, email and a social networking framework all into one standardized GUI.

You’ve all heard of Facebook haven’t you? If you haven’t, I need to fill you in. Facebook is a social website based on what school you attend. It allows you to search your school for people you know among other things. It’s a g…

The party will end once the app sucks in all your contacts.

Getting laid with Facebook’s help? It will end once it becomes a history of your miss deeds and guess what people can track who you have been in bed with.

This site does not necessarily (and that’s the key) need to identify social network leaders, as it’s word-of-mouth infection has been the driving force behind its success. I believe, to stay fresh they are going to have to reduce the number of features the site offers, but increase the vertical ability of each. For example, adding greater functionality to the email feature, or collaborating with Flickr or another photo service to enhance album features.

I do not believe this site will ever have to move to a new domain per say.