with Facebook now sitting on $ 16 billion after the IPO, we will look at the massive social network that makes Google and develop their own phone?

With its IPO, many believe that Facebook is now a giant, sitting pretty $ 16 billion (£ 10 billion) in cash and a review that began the day in more than $ 100 one billion.

launch Friday was fun (updated signal Zuckerberg comic situation: "Mark Zuckerberg, a company listed on NASDAQ"), but there is a tendency to see the values ??of the IPO market as the culmination of the existence of a society. This is a common mistake, that the first parents to be excited about the baby, and forgetting is the next bit is really important.

It took eight years to get here, however, is easy to forget that it is actually just the beginning.

you expect now? Do not be surprised if the next big thing is a Facebook phone -. Start your own software developed and up and down to participate on the site all the time

Zuckerberg team was advised to do directly, because it must reach the "next billion" Internet users, and are mostly going to be using mobile phones, and not desktop or laptop computers. Selling your own phone could mean that the background hum of people's lives around the world -. And announcements of shows and collect data on their own terms

When Google floated in 2004, everyone knew he was good looking, but do not think it would last. Microsoft would come after him, and anyway the lack of respect for the founders of investment banks (which Zuckerberg has not imitated, hoodies side) means that the float is not well planned.

However, in the eight years that followed, Google bought YouTube has become the destination and the largest online video. He launched Android, the mobile operating system, now supplies half of smartphones sold worldwide.

He won millions of business customers for Google Apps Suite. The IPO at $ 85 per share, was only the beginning: On Friday, Google shares were $ 630

same goes for Facebook, no less, and the presence of public money, and now are only the beginning. Now has more users (901 million) were using the Internet in late 2004 (817 million euros), but the total number of Internet users has tripled its share, so instead of having 816 million potential new users, which has 1.38 billion. The potential market has almost doubled.

But can it continue to grow, or will spray out like MySpace and Bebo?

Ed Barton, director of digital media research firm Strategy Analytics, said that getting the next billion will be a major challenge.

So for some, it looks like a safe bet. Andrew Schneider, a hedge fund consultant and executive director of the Office of San Francisco, the Schneider family, was held on Friday the sale of shares of Apple and LinkedIn on Thursday to release at least $ 20 million cash by the actions of Facebook. "You have 900 million users, and you have solid real income, and the company makes money," says Schneider.
However, the current limits of growth may be dictated by your estate. Facebook was founded on a desktop computer in a college dorm, and although long, was released from the latter, the first is to avoid reaching the 1.38 billion and the next billion to come.