Should Facebook Have Selected More Non-Valley Companies For Their Facebook Connect Launch Partners?

One of the major pieces of the keynote address provided by Mark Zuckerberg yesterday was around how huge Facebook is internationally and how Facebook appreciates all of the various language versions that have been created. In fact he said that most of the growth in membership comes from their international versions.

Yet when we look at the initial launch partners for Facebook Connect, 6 of the 24 are from outside California and only one is from outside the U.S. Four of the launch partners are from IAC and three are part of CBS. Here’s a list of the intial Facebook Connect launch partners and their headquarters location. Marc Bernegger also notes that only one company is non-U.S.

• ABC TV _ Los Angeles
• Amiando – Munich, Germany
• CBS – New York
• Citysearch – NYC – Part of IAC
• CNET – Silicon Valley – Part of CBS
• CollegeHumor – NYC – Part of IAC
• Digg – Silicon Valley
• Disney – Los Angeles
• Evite – Los Angeles – Part of IAC
• Flock – Silicon Valley
• Hulu – Los Angeles
• Kongregate – Silicon Valley
• Loopt – Silicon Valley
• Plaxo – Silicon Valley
• Radar – Silicon Valley
• Red Bull- Los Angeles
• Seesmic – Silicon Valley
• SocialThing – Silicon Valley
• StumbleUpon – Silicon Valley – Part of eBay
• Twitter – Silicon Valley
• Six Apart – Silicon Valley
• The Insider – NYC – Part of CBS
• Uber – Los Angeles
• Vimeo – NYC – Part of IAC
• Xobni – Silicon Valley

Should Facebook have worked harder for location diversity in the companies they selected for their initial Facebook Connect launch partners?