Archive for September, 2007
Saturday, September 29th, 2007
Our speaker Nick O'Neill writes that Facebook will soon be launching advanced friend grouping and granular privacy controls so that "you can control who sees what." Here is is straight from the horse's mouth:
Now that the feature is confirmed as forthcoming, what is the new hot feature that you want ...
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Saturday, September 29th, 2007
There is only one more at-cost ($190) registration left for the Web Community Forum this December. After that, the price jumps to $290, so if you're budget conscious and you're planning to come to the event, now would probably be the time to register.
Steve and I will be posting a ...
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
How to Change the World: Ten Questions with Chris Brogan
Chris Brogan answers ten questions about Twitter.
(tags: twitter web2.0 Chris_Brogan)
Rodney Rumford on Facebook Friending Etiquette
* Never solicit a friend that you do not know in the real world without writing a personal note. * Be selective about who you let into ...
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
I was going to let Teresa brag about the really cool site tweak she installed last night, but she hasn't done it yet and sooner or later someone is bound to notice.
OK, so look to your right. You see how some of those title bars have a little "+" ...
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Friday, September 28th, 2007
I dunno about you guys, but I'm pretty tired of the 800px wide look of Facebook. I'm not a big fan of scrolling when there's massive whitespace on either side of my screen. I'm not using a Lisa here, I'm on a MacBook.
Who else is using a 1280x800 screen and ...
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
I've been wanting to write this post for quite some time, but I've been in meetings and working with clients. So like so many things on the actual Web, it had to wait.
In short, its been alleged that Facebook does not have, nor has it ever had, any system in ...
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
When you're talking about sexual predators online -- and it seems we always are -- Facebook is in the hot seat. New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office found compelling evidence that Facebook did not respond in a timely manner to investigators posing as concerned parents.
But despite the compelling evidence ...
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Thursday, September 27th, 2007
MySpace has launched an offering for advertisers that targets their content to users based on their profiles. The Wall Street Journal seems to think that this means that MySpace is losing ground. Fox Interactive's Chief Revenue Officer Michael Barret fired back:
I don't agree with the statement that Facebook is growing ...
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Wednesday, September 26th, 2007
In this who debate about the actual value of Facebook (is it worth $10bn?) has given rise to debate with all sorts of fuzzy numbers. It made me wonder where you could get your hands on real solid numbers.
It turns out that there is a Statistics page within Facebook ...
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
I remember when Facebook was considered a safe environment for students to share personal information. But now the same problems that have plagued MySpace are cropping up on Facebook. The New York Times reports that New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office is investigating sexual predators on Facebook:
But about a ...
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
It's pretty simple, really. Microsoft sees Facebook as a key to developing a comprehensive ad delivery platform to rival Google's.
From the Wall Street Journal:
Some industry executives believe the Internet today is facing the sort of turning point that the computer-operating-system sector confronted two decades ago: Whoever controls the technology platform ...
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
After a long (!) hiatus, Linkedin has re-launched their groups feature. An excerpt from an e-mail I received this morning:
We are proud to announce that the LinkedIn Groups section of the site is back up and running at full functionality. You are now able to create your group and/or ...
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Great minds very often think alike. In this case, two people I admire very much -- Liz Strauss and Chris Brogan -- seem to agree about one of Facebook's major weaknesses: the way relationships are organized.
Chris posted today that Facebook should let him organize his friends any way he wants:
If ...
Posted in Facebook | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Sometimes I start doing things and then notice that I'm doing them a month or so later, like eating spinach.
In this case though, I've noticed that I'm using TinyURLs almost every time I need to throw a link into Facebook - either in a wall post or a message ...
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2007
Chuck Lam is at it again. He's the guy that did that cool analysis of Facebook penetration and school prestige in Bay Area high schools. (I had a lot of fun replicating his results.) This time, he's worked up a metric called "MySpace intensity" and is correlating it to the ...
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