The Facebook Effect

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Channel: The Aspen Institute · 2010 · News & Politics

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Aspen Ideas Festival, 2010.

Facebook has more than 400 million users Worldwide who cumulatively spend more than 500 billion minutes on the site each month. Fortune magazine's veteran technology editor David Kirkpatrick tells us how Facebook was created, why it has flourished, and where it is going next.

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David Kirkpatrick

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