Andreessen to Become Facebook's 4th Board Member

Kara at Boomtown is reporting that web visionary Marc Andreessen, who brought us Netscape and Ning, is likely to become the 4th board member of Facebook.

This is particularly interesting because Ning is a major player in the Open Social Alliance spearheaded by Google, an alliance that includes Myspace but not Facebook. Is Facebook seeking to bridge that gap in the social networking space? Certainly Facebook's power plays in the executive and board areas suggest that the social juggernaut has even bigger plans.

With the Microsoft Yahoo merger on the skids, many have suggested that Facebook may be a key new aquisition target for Microsoft.