Build a succesful service using the Facebook platform.

I suspect that one of the reasons that Facebook has released the platform API is to allow small teams of external people to their R&D for them.

There's probably a million features that might or moght not appeal to the Facebook userbase and they can't try them all out by themselves.

There's always the danger that they might simply rengineer any successful service but my hunch is this that they would be likeley to acquire any such site becuase they wouldn't want to discourage people building on the Facebook platform.

They wouldn't want to kill the goose that laid the golden egg, would they ?

Anyway, it's just a thought ...

By the way, do excuse my atrocious spelling :-)

no way man! they'll do an amazon !!!!