the NY Times discusses FB’s valuation
Without adding much information, despite access to FB’s VC and angel investors, the NYT oh so boldly says that FB insiders believe that FB is worth more than $1B.
Facebook’s great value lies in its structured usable data, which is the most comprehensive personal data set ever acquired about a generation. Furthermore FB is opening access to it in a gradual careful way, so it could become the basis for a large number of services, the same way google search contributes power to many web apps. While the $1.86B yahoo offered (according to leaked deal documents posted at TechCrunch and now removed) is high, and the documents show that at that time the economics of the deal needed to be stretched to make strict financial sense, like the MySpace deal this figure is likely to seem like a value someday.
