by Jason Preston on April 11, 2008
What do these two have in common?
If you read Mashable you’ve probably seen this post about Guy Bono’s EU bill encouraging countries to treat internet access as a human right:
Here’s what Guy Bono has to say about the idea of shutting down internet access to anyone, for whatever reason: “The repressive measures are measures dictated by industries that have been unable to change their business models to meet the needs imposed by the information society. Switching off internet access is a powerful sanction which could have profound repercussions in a society where access to the internet is a mandatory law for social inclusion.”
This is going to become more true as time goes forward. Sharing on the internet has become such a powerful mode of social connection that the EU is willing to consider internet access to be on par with other basic human rights.
In other words, building a community online means building a very real community.
by Jason Preston on March 21, 2008
In case anyone reading this blog is interested or amused by my social media ramblings (actually, I guess that would be all of you, almost by definition), you can hear the lovely timbre of my voice on this podcast over at MySuccessGateway.com.
Jim Peake interviewed me at the beginning of this week, adding me to the list of guru resources available on his site.
It’s aimed a little more for people who aren’t already very familiar with sites like facebook and twitter (so, almost by definition, NOT most of you), but it was a good fun interview, and you can always pass it up the ladder to the higher ups who need a little edumication here and there.
by Jason Preston on November 12, 2007
Apparently, according to those with a sneak peak at this week’s ComScore numbers, Facebook has yet to fully recover from the September traffic dip (i.e. get back to August numbers), but MySpace is roaring ahead with record highs in unique visitor counts:
Facebook bounced back from the seasonal downturn in September, showing 7.5% month-over-month growth with 32.9 unique visitors for the month. Meanwhile, MySpace hit a new all-time high with 71.9 million unique visitors in October. While the site also had a seasonal dip in September, unlike Facebook the total was up from August, when the company had a reported 68.4 million uniques.
I need to avoid the trap of calling MySpace out of the fight just because I don’t like it. As much as I might close my eyes and twirl my hands, mine is not the only opinion that matters.
by Teresa Valdez Klein on November 10, 2007
by Teresa Valdez Klein on November 7, 2007
by Teresa Valdez Klein on November 6, 2007
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Is it possible to create a wrapper to translate Open Social applications to run on the Facebook platform?
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Mattel builds a safe community for teenage girls and leverages special friendship authentication for profit.
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This Pandora upgrade should be just the start. Now that you can see what songs your friends like and tailor your tastes accordingly, the next step is to start letting artists leveraging the communities that emerge around their work.
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Goog…I mean YouTube made a great decision here by working with their most passionate users to make the site a better place. Facebook should take a page out of that book.
by Teresa Valdez Klein on November 3, 2007
by Teresa Valdez Klein on November 1, 2007
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AdAge sounds off on Facebook/Microsoft’s new ad network that will reportedly use cookies and Facebook profile data to target ads on third party sites.
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“It’s an idea I heard bandied about frequently in the hallways at Web 2.0 Summit and, given the amount of oxygen Facebook has been sucking out of whatever room it finds itself in, probably a good thing.”
by Teresa Valdez Klein on October 31, 2007
by Teresa Valdez Klein on October 30, 2007
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“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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techPresident’s Fred Stutzman asks, “what is a Facebook group really worth?”
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All Facebook’s Dan Lester weighs in on the cookie-based 3rd party advertising network that Facebook and Microsoft are reported to be working on.
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I love Nick O’Neill as much as the next Facebook geek, but we need to not be running with unsubstantiated rumors posted on Valleywag….
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A great primer on how different companies should allocate online marketing budgets. Via The Jeremiah.
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Facebook had 34.5 BILLION page views in the month of September, making them the 4th most trafficked website worldwide.
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I’m looking forward to whatever this Maka-Maka thing is. So forward that I got an Orkut account!
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Is CNN in the Second LIfe I’m familiar with? Because last time I was in there, there wasn’t anything newsworthy going on. Using SL to train citizen journalists to do REAL WORLD journalism. That would be revolutionary.
by Teresa Valdez Klein on October 29, 2007
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A neat primer on getting good with Google Reader. Helps to stay on top of your communities.
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Lee Lorenzen shares his vision for e-commerce on Facebook. He’s banking on this change in the user experience of the site as part of his $100 billion valuation of Facebook.
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More rumors about unfettered access to user data for all Facebook employees. Take it with a grain of salt, as Valleywag is responsible for breaking this one…
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.GE Commercial Finance is using Facebook as a training ground for employees to learn more about online security.
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Hiring at Facebook might become harder now that the price for stock options is through the roof…
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TechPresident has some fun with statistics…
by Teresa Valdez Klein on October 24, 2007
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Charlene Li from Forrester explains why the MS deal at the MS price makes numerical sense, among other things
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Brian Solis covers the MS-Facebook investment. WSJ quote + Press release.
by Teresa Valdez Klein on October 13, 2007
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A handy post from Mashable about some neat tools for handling databases. If you’re a fledgling developer, some of these might prove most useful.
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I knew something like this would surface eventually. Too bad he doesn’t have a Facebook profile so they can actually tag him in pictures.
by Teresa Valdez Klein on October 12, 2007
by Teresa Valdez Klein on October 11, 2007
