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April 30, 2006

Facebook to Add 1,000 Corporate Networks This Week

Michael Arrington

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From the well-sourced rumor file: Facebook, which began allowing employees from a handful of companies to become members last week, may be adding another 1,000 companies on Tuesday.

Facebook determines if a person is a member of a college, high school or corporate network based on their email address. As they add companies, anyone with an email address from that company can become a member of that company’s network on Facebook.

Here’s something I’d love to have: a TechCrunch Facebook network. I would issue email addresses to TechCrunch readers and we could have a private network of people who want to discuss new startups and share information about themselves. I don’t think this is in Facebook’s plans, but I’d enjoy doing it.

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  1. Deepak

    April 30th, 2006 at 5:59 pm

    Wouldn’t it be simpler to just have a mailing list? Unless of course you want to be able to share every member’s information with every other member. Not sure that idea will catch fire with a lot of readers.

  2. Roy

    April 30th, 2006 at 6:02 pm

    I’ve been on the college part of Facebook for a while now, and Facebook is not conducive to conversations at all, so I’m not quite sure if what you wish would be a reality :)

  3. Craig

    April 30th, 2006 at 6:13 pm

    Michael,

    Contact me. I’ve got the solution to your techcrunch network. We have developed exactly that. The ability to have your own branded network with complete collaboration by all members.

    Onmycity.com

  4. Mike

    April 30th, 2006 at 6:30 pm

    I guess a bunch of college students planning frat parties isn’t worth $2B, but add another 10 million geeky computer nerds? Well then you just might have something :)

  5. Blaze

    April 30th, 2006 at 6:38 pm

    That’s certainly the aim with this one Mike. I’d to anything to make my company look like it’s worth $2bn ;)

  6. Saul Weiner

    April 30th, 2006 at 6:50 pm

    I’m still on the fence about this. I wonder if companies wil freak out when they realise this is happening under their noses without their oversight. COmpanies get wierd like that :-P

  7. Ashish

    April 30th, 2006 at 7:33 pm

    I agree with Roy, Facebook doesn’t offer much in the way of communication.

  8. RBA

    April 30th, 2006 at 9:34 pm

    Forgive the shameless self-promotion, but what you want Mike is something ZoomGroups has been offering for quite a while already: http://www.zoomgroups.com/branded.html

    And yes, unlike 99.9% of all YASNs, ZoomGroups does email-groups/mailing-lists quite well.

  9. The Entrepreneurial Endeavor

    April 30th, 2006 at 9:51 pm

    Facebook wasn’t built for the intention of conversations.

    The owners have stated in numerous interviews that their intentions are to create an interactive directory tool. So I guess their approach is going to slowly turn into the more the merrier.

  10. Juvenn

    May 1st, 2006 at 3:42 am

    I have long been interested in Facebook, but I have no that .edu or microsoft.com emails. If there is a techcrunch.com community, I want to join in.

  11. michael

    May 1st, 2006 at 4:49 am

    @roy (#3): omg you’re so right.

  12. Christopher Carfi

    May 1st, 2006 at 6:21 am

    Mike, Cerado just added private network faciilities to Haystack ( http://haystack.cerado.com ), which as you know is our enterprise social networking service.

    Additionally, Shel Holtz and I were just discussing this idea of social networking behind the corporate firewall (see following link).

    http://www.socialcustomer.com/.....pdate.html

    Happy to help out in any way we can.

  13. Christopher Carfi

    May 1st, 2006 at 6:25 am

    (actually, Haystack is all self-service, so you can check it out yourself w/o our involvement.)

  14. Jeremy Stein

    May 1st, 2006 at 7:33 am

    college students wont like employers checking out their profile before the big interview…

  15. Anas hashmi

    May 1st, 2006 at 7:53 am

    Wait a sec! Here is the problem. I am in college majoring in Civil Engineering. I have a college email address. In about two years, I will be working. Maybe for one company. Maybe for two companies.

    Now I also am a techcrunch reader. Take a look at this messy scenario. I have a techcrunch email id, college email id, company email id(s). I am going to have many accounts. Not exactly networking, is it?

  16. Ari Mir

    May 1st, 2006 at 8:40 am

    Anas,

    I made the same critiscism the other day, but it was brought to my attention Facebook NOW allows you to add networks, preventing mulitple accounts.

    I think this is a great move on their part. Facebook now verifies your highschool, undergrad, grad, work and mobile identity. If they do nothing else other than verify more aspects of your identity, facebook will be worth much more than $2b.

  17. Jay Crilly

    May 1st, 2006 at 12:59 pm

    I’d like to custom develop this for you. Shoot me an email.
    -Jay

  18. Justin Smith

    May 3rd, 2006 at 1:08 am

    Hey Mike,

    I interviewed Facebook and LinkedIn about the corporate expansion here.

    -Justin

  19. Larry

    May 4th, 2006 at 10:35 am

    Ah… Homeland Security’s plan is coming together very well… This is so dangerous I can’t believe anyone would want to sign up and provide any info to these guys…

    Watch out People!!! It is only a matter of time until we see these social networks in the Supreme Court. My advice to the wise? Sit back and watch this one happen without getting involved…

  20. jamie

    August 11th, 2006 at 12:28 pm

    I would like to be added to the network if you decide to do it!! let me know…

  21. Jones

    December 6th, 2006 at 10:27 am

    The site\’\’s very professional! Keep up the good work! Oh yes, one extra comment - maybe you could add more pictures too! So, good luck to your team!

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    January 6th, 2007 at 1:15 pm

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