[Translate] If Facebook’s basing its future on the “Open Graph” it’s a good bet only if the real system’s much more than the demo presented by Facebook today. Look. The reason Facebook works is because it follows “Abraham’s Law Of Social Media”: People Are Voyeurs. People want to know about other people, who they are, what they do, and most important, what they have in common with them. Anyone who knows how to use the current Facebook can do much of what the new service promises...
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[Translate] Don’t look now, but TechCrunch – the blog founded by Michael Arrington, who in 2010 then sold it to the Tim Armstrong and Arriana Huffington-ran AOL, and the same Huffington who Michael recently called a “touchy psychopath” for her then-heavy-handed role at the tech blog, chasing off Arrington, and bloggers Sarah Lacy, Paul Carr, and MG Sigler, as well as CEO Heather Harde and eventually nuke-blasting Erick Shoenfeld right out of his job as editor – is showing a traffic rebound after months...
[Translate] Either some Twitter users are blind or stupid, but whatever the case, the Twitter Trend “RIP Facebook” which is hot today (ranked number 7 as of this writing) and would seem to point to the demise of the giant Social Network website, is in point of fact totally wrong. As of this writing Facebook Stock is rebounding from its price lows below it’s starting market capitalization price of $28.94, and todays trades have almost erased the money losing period of a day-plus ago. The question is will this good...
[Translate] Facebook stock has dropped from a high of $42.05 on the first day of trading to Tuesday’s new closing low of $28.80, losing $35 billion in value in the process, dropping from $115.227 billion to $78.912 billion. While observers point to a new round of trading on the options market, and others speculate that the stock price will fall even more,...
[Translate] Facebook’s friend algorithm is poorly designed, and to a degree that this blogger finds consistently annoying. Really, it’s not just the algorithm that tells you that you’re “friending” people you don’t know, when you do know them, it’s the very website which prompts you to ‘friend’ the same people...
[Translate] Yesterday, Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg put out a blog post announcing that his company spent $1 billion to acquire Instagram, the popular smartphone-based photo-sharing service. Moreover, the organization made even more famous in the movie The Social Network, gave the small, young, San Francisco-based organization a combination of cash...
[Translate] Gestern bin ich auf ein interessantes Plug-In gestoßen – leider habe ich keine Ahnung, wie ich es installieren könnte. Die Idee ist aber recht gut! Es geht hierbei um die vom Autor so genannte [loveMachine] , ein Programm, dass sich in Facebook einloggt und alles, was die Freunde schreiben, “like”ed. Im Anschluss daran postet es noch seinen Score, also wie viele Posts es gemocht hat in den eigenen Status und logt sich wieder aus. Laut Facebook ist ein Like noch lange kein Kommentar, es ist vielmehr...
[Translate] Facebook The hot tech news is that Facebook will hold and Initial Public Offering (IPO) in April of 2012, and that the giant social network started by Mark Zuckerberg is valued at $100 billion. The question of the day is “Is Facebook actually worth $100 billion?” The conversation on CNBC’s First Monday is that is is, and because of the sheer number of people on it, plus the number of people who think they need to be on it. Right now, Facebook has over 800 million active users, each of which has an average...
[Translate] Facebook’s Manager of Global Communications Eric Edge took time to talk with this blogger at DigitalWest, the first West Coast-based conference for the trade magazine Advertising Age. In the video, Edge gave kind of a quick overview of where Facebook is today, saying that the social network is “in a really good place.” “The value of sharing and connecting is huge, right?” He says that Facebook’s now in a place where it’s not just connecting people, but connecting brands “at...
[Translate] In a sign that Facebook’s not happy with Twitter being the “pulse of the planet”, it acquired rival social network FriendFeed today. Yes, Facebook gets all of the FriendFeed ex-Google employees. Bully for them. But what does it mean for a person like me who’s on both sites? For the answer, I checked Friend Feed’s blog. Well, to the unaided eye nothing. But then everything. Here’s my hypothesis: look for Facebook to morph into FriendFeed such that all of the content from your social...
[Translate] More at Zennie62.com | Follow me on Twitter! | Get my widget! YouTube, MySpace, Metacafe, Blip.tv, Sclipo and Viddler I was just heading to Facebook to test a theory on profile settings for a friend when I noticed the page wasn’t coming up. I got the famous “the connection to the server was reset while the page was loading” message, so I refreshed the screen and the same thing happened: nothing. Still I had to make sure it wasn’t me, so I sent out a tweet on Twitter (see the video). @egratto...
[Translate] More at Zennie62.com | Follow me on Twitter! YouTube, MySpace, Metacafe, DailyMotion, Blip.tv, Stupid Videos, Sclipo and Viddler I saw an interesting blog post today over at Webguild.org reporting that Twitter is “Doomed” (in fact the title is “Twitter Doomed”) and I had to laugh. There have been any number of people explaining either why they don’t use Twitter or predicting its demise. There’s even a website-style blog called “Twitter Backlash“. But back to the...
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