Facebook promises 'awesome' announcement next week

So often, when a company hypes an announcement it's either a massive letdown or it's not an announcement at all but confirmation of well-known speculation.

Yet, richer-than-you'll-ever-be Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has promised that his company has something "awesome" to announce next week, according to the folks at Reuters.

We at V3.co.uk thought we'd have a stab at guessing what it might be. Obviously it could be something practical and useful, like a dedicated iPad application to help users navigate and interact with Facebook on their shiny Apple toy, or perhaps some form of dedicated photo-sharing application so friends can pass content around.

But maybe it's something more exciting and outlandish than that. Perhaps Facebook is launching its own tablet, maybe a smartphone built and crafted by its own fair hands.

Or what about a 'dislike' button? There's certainly enough self-pitying, political-baiting, showing-off statuses written by the millions of users on the site that need to be taken down a peg or two.

No, we've got it, they've got a celebrity innovator onboard. Following on from Justin Timberlake getting involved in MySpace and Intel buddying up with Will.i.am, Facebook has Lady Gaga, Beyoncé and Rihanna waiting in the wings: Zuckerberg's Angels.

Or maybe Zuckerberg likes Google's Circles system on the Google+ social networking tool so much he's going to add it to Facebook.

We'll just have to wait until next week to see what Facebook's got up it sleeve, although it's probably the dedicated iPad app. Boring.

But what do you think? Let us know below and we'll see who's closest next week.

01 Jul 2011