Archive for October, 2007
Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Will Google “Friendster” Facebook? « Scobleizer
In which the eminent Scobleizer turns "Friendster" from a proper noun into a verb meaning "to make irrelevant in the social networking space."
(tags: google facebook opensocial)
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Did you know that Facebook has an identical twin in china? It's called Xiaonei.com, and it looks almost exactly the same (albeit not in English).
David Feng over at Blognation China noted that even if Facebook's nabbing of the ".cn" domain name --- the extension for China --- is an ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
The potentially game changing news about Google's Open Social has everyone talking and asking great questions.
What I want to know is, if I'm on Orkut and I'm using an app that lets me throw poop at my friends, will I be able to throw poop at people on Linkedin?
Different social ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
As Eric over at TechCrunch puts it, there are indeed more Facebook Music rumors flying around the blogosphere.
I think it's funny that the top application on Facebook, by essentially any statistic, is Top Friends. Why is this funny? Because Top Friends is a basic, built-in feature of MySpace. That's ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
According to Mashable, Facebook announced this morning that they're adding new "spam control" features to the mini-feed. I went and checked out my profile, and either the features aren't live yet or they aren't going to be at all.
Regardless, it's not a bad idea:
Now, though, users can review actions ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
As expected, Google has announced a set of common APIs for creating applications that will work on multiple networks. Orkut, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Ning, Hi5, Plaxo, Friendster, Viadeo and Oracle have all agreed to participate as partners with Google in this initiative.
We old timers have been through this before, back when ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
Rumor has it that on November 6th Facebook will be announcing some new goodies to the world, specifically the addition of a targeted ad network that extends beyond its own pages.
Nick's right on the money when he says that this move makes a lot of sense for both Facebook and ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
Microsoft-Facebook: 'A True Bubble Deal'
"A deal that values Facebook at 100x cash flows and 500x profits is a true bubble deal. Let's call this one what it is. Microsoft is buying real estate for ads and Zuckerberg simply drove the price sky-high based on nothing more then his charisma. That's
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
In my post yesterday I wrote out a few tips for marketing your business through Facebook. One of the suggestions I made, and I think one of the easiest, is becoming an active user. If you're on Facebook doing things, people will pay attention to who you are and, in ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
I actually recorded this interview with Dean before Thanksgiving, and I do have an explanation for myself: proprietary formats.
"What?" you ask, "could that possibly excuse?"
I grabbed this nifty little program called PMRecorder for my windows mobile phone, which lets me record phone calls. That's how I managed to get a ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
The slightly over the hill online social networking behemoth MySpace has announced a partnership with Zazzle that will allow users to sell custom tee-shirts via their profiles
This makes perfect sense. Merchandise is a great way for artists to make extra cash, and the one place where Facebook still has nothing ...
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
Mashable hypothesizes that Microsoft may use some combination of browser cookies and profile data to target advertising on third party sites:
For example, if you’ve listed in your profile that one of your favorite bands is Coldplay, you might see an ad for their CD or concert tickets when browsing a ...
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
Hack Attack: Getting good with Google Reader
A neat primer on getting good with Google Reader. Helps to stay on top of your communities.
(tags: google_reader google)
Altura Ventures CEO: Why Not Facebook Commerce? on Epicenter
Lee Lorenzen shares his vision for e-commerce on Facebook. He's banking on this change in the user experience ...
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
One of the more common questions I get when I talk to people about Facebook is, naturally, "why should I care?" Many people still consider Facebook to be little more than an online Rolodex or, since they see their friends every day, superfluous.
The truth is that it's a lot ...
Posted in Facebook | 5 Comments »
Monday, October 29th, 2007
There's an article by Glenda Kwek in the Sydney Morning Herald that discusses Facebook's annoying habit of disabling user accounts. I've posted on this subject before, and I had a chance to trade e-mails with Glenda about the subject in more detail.
I was quoted briefly in the SMH piece, ...
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