Facebook Business Cards Launched
This service is a new model to reduce the distance between the online to offline
Facebook launched a new service that allows users to use Facebook in the real
worldbrands. Service is a personalized form of business cards, as well as take pictures and
profiles of Facebook users. This new service called Facebook Card.
This service is a new model-style social networking to reduce the distance between the
online and offline. With this card, users can move up as a Facebook profile in the online
world to the business card in the offline world.
Facebook This card can be used by more than 800 million Facebook
users globallybeginning Thursday, January 5, 2011. Free Card developed in
collaboration with digitalprinting business based in the UK, Moo.com.
Moo.com offers 50 personalized business cards for 200 thousand Facebook users first, in
the promotion of this service. The standard cost for 50 cards is around 10 pounds.
Facebook believes that today is a good time to launch this service, because users will
beable to make creative business cards. When this was considered appropriate
becauseFacebook has just launched a timeline feature at the end of last
year, which makes up the user profile more interesting to be traced.
Timeline Facebook has become an attractive substitute for the earlier impression of a
flatwall. With a timeline, Facebook users can browse the person's story, so that Facebook
founder Mark Zuckerberg called this "Story of Your Life".
"Timeline helps people to tell their stories on Facebook and become a feature of parts of
their lives more meaningful," said Jillian Stefanki, a spokesman for Facebook.
"Integration Moo.com makes it possible for people to get the same expression it
offline(on card)," he continued.
Moo.com launched in 2006 by entrepreneur Richard Moross. He said that
many businesscards have different features photographic images in front of
him, and behind a favoritequote.
The purpose of this card, said Moross, which allows Facebook users to have a business
card that put "the right image for a business opportunity or the right of social life".
"The line between social networking online and offline business networking,
not only vaguebut is now disappearing," he said.
Moo.com has raised more than U.S. $ 5 million
or approximately 3.2 million pounds inventure capital from major companies such
as Index Ventures and Atlas Venture, as well as Skype, Last.fm, and MySQL.