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links for 2007-10-04
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Rodney Rumford speculates on why Ballmer would ever call online social networks a “fad.”
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Some news people are skeptical, of course. Facebook is popular now, but won’t it just get usurped by something else soon? Is it really worth the effort to build applications for it?
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1) User Base Exodus
2) Falling Prey to a Weak Business Model
3) Stunting Growth While Waiting for Valuation
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links for 2007-09-28
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Chris Brogan answers ten questions about Twitter.
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* 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 your friends network. It effects the quality of your News Feed Content and what people can see about you. * Try to make
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Could this be a good community building application?
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Why wait for a puffed-up IPO when you can demand ridiculous prices like that from supposedly savvy investors?
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Our very own Nick O’Neill interviews Facebook professor Dave McClure
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At least eight startups have announced plans to build ad networks for Facebook applications. There’s just one problem: Facebook may soon be moving into this business itself, raising big questions about the viability of these startups’ plans.
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Here’s where you find Official Facebook Statistics
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 (their “press room,” specifically) that lists a selection of their numbers.
You can find it here, and it looks like this:

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links for 2007-09-21
Update: I can’t BELIEVE that I accidentally shared items intended for my personal blog here on Web Community Forum. I knew this would happen sooner or later with two del.icio.us accounts running in the background. Many apologies and *le sigh.* [click to continue...]
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links for 2007-09-20
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I honestly find this article a little overblown and would like to take a good look at their statistics. Most adults I know aren’t that addicted to the Web. My generation might be a little more like this, but certainly not enough so that we give up sex and
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Jeremiah Owyang has a video of Dave McClure (of the upcoming Graphing Social conference) talking about Facebook.
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Some tips for branding yourself for success on Facebook.
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The Shared Items feature in Google’s Reader application is already the premiere app for spitting content from yoru RSS feeds. Now they add a social application for spitting content to your friends from your browser a. la. del.icio.us. The problem: it does
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links for 2007-09-15
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Robert Scoble interviews Randi Zuckerberg, Facebook’s Director of Market Development and the sister of Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg. Major drop in productivity at Facebook since the platform launched.
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Oh goodness would I love to be in on this class. Wishing I were still in college.
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There’s a distinct possibility that MySpace will, in the near future, not be hideous. The new MySpace looks kind of like…Facebook.
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Our speaker Rodney Rumford talks about the business applications of Facebook platform.
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Who is the new Facebook? Ellen McGirt wants to know.
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links for 2007-09-12
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Some marketers don’t understand marketing
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links for 2007-09-11
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Predicting the end of the early adopter interest in Facebook
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Facebook’s terms of service allow them to use and cache your original content. Indie bands beware! Was MySpace ever this draconian?
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Do you have to have face-to-face contact with someone to consider them a friend?
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Your dose of humor for the (yester)day
Yesterday’s comic, but as always, it’s good stuff. Might want to read up on Fred’s post about web platforms.
Also, in case you didn’t know, Scott Adams has a pretty good blog himself. He’s a web 2.0 platform.
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