Facebook continues to be a force and has continued to do good things since the release of it’s API’s. An article looks at Facebook 2 months after the launch of their platform, TechCrunch suggests Facebook may be the next Microsoft, and of course, there is the lawsuit that just won’t go away. With everyone guessing an IPO is on the way, things will continue to be interesting for the community portal.

UPDATE: Forgot to mention that Facebook has made their first acquisition, Parakey. What’s more interesting is that Google is rumored to have been interested in the company, too.

Dictionary.com is one of my favorite web resources and I use the site almost daily. We talked about the site previously, when it had an extreme (and much-needed) makeover, and in the post, I compared the site’s importance to Wikipedia. Paul Kedrosky suggests this is merely the biggest domain name sale in the history of the web, which may very well be true, but at least the acquisition is easy to make sense of. The price is fair, the partnership between Answer.com and the package of Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com creates a powerful package.

Redfin, a company Rob and I met over a year ago, has received an additional round of funding. The company takes a lot of heat from the Real Estate industry with their model, but this was probably an inevitable step for the Industry and another example of the Internet helping consumers save money.

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