In 2011, Offsite Networks moved their manufacturing back to America, finding a domestic supplier, Zentech Manufacturing, based in Baltimore, to carry out the company's orders.
To read: Inc.'s Eric Markowitz on why manufacturing that had been outsourced may come back to the U.S.: When Anton Bakker launched his company, Offsite Networks, in 1999, he had no intention of manufacturing overseas.
Facebook has moved very cautiously with the deployment of its offsite ad network despite its massive network of like buttons and widgets.
For years, we've expected that Facebook will eventually launch a full-fledged offsite ad network, but the company has moved extremely cautiously.
Pundits have said for years that Facebook should launch an AdSense-Killer offsite ad network, but it wisely delayed until now.
The biggest obstacle, and likely the reason Facebook hasn't already launched an offsite ad network, is that the world might not be ready.
Now that those two programs are up and running, the company can once again focus on fine-tuning its offsite ad network.
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg claims Facebook has no plans to build an offsite ad network or a mapping feature, even though they'd be nice to have.
Facebook now owns the infrastructure and knows how to launch its own full-fledged offsite ad network, which would let it monetize its personal information about 1 billion people by targeting them with ads across the web.
An offsite ad network, big glossy news feed ads, and payments for physical goods are a few ways it could boost its average revenue per user far beyond the puny $4.34 a year it earns today.
