Archive for the ‘Facebook’ Category
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Facebook recently announced more details about their upcoming profile changes, which include some massive overhaul to the visual interface as well as some significant changes to infrastructure for app developers.
Teresa wrote earlier about what these changes might mean for developers. Now that we have some more detailed information, I think ...
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Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
A few days ago Nick O'Neill posted on AllFacebook about some ad numbers that Justin Smith came up with regarding Facebook CPMs.
Basically, the numbers are low and probably going to get lower. This gets at an issue that I've been harping on for some time (although, unfortunately, I can't seem ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
Voter registration efforts typically rely on a great deal of labor and community outreach. Barack Obama's massive spring and summer registration effort will likely rely primarily on card tables and paper forms.
But the University of Washington students behind the new Facebook application Your Revolution are working a different angle. By ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Silicon Alley Insider tells us that Facebook's COO went to a Financial Times "interview" event held by the Financial Times (as SAI correctly notes, nobody in America reads it).
OK, so far so good. Here's where it gets weird: the even was "off the record."
What?
But the reporters who were ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
Facebook's long-anticipated tabbed profile layout will contain room for individual application tabs, says Inside Facebook blogger Justin Smith. Under the new system, users will be able to create a special profile section for their favorite application. This will give application developers an unprecedented amount of real estate on the Facebook ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
Longtime users of the Facebook platform have seen how applications from popular web services like Twitter can add tremendous value to the News Feed and Mini Feed features. In fact, one could argue that News Feed was the inspiration for lifestreaming tools like Tumblr and FriendFeed.
Now, it appears that the ...
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Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
Apparently the anti-spam account-disabling features at Facebook are just as inconsistent as their privacy features. This popped up on my screen while I was reading my FB messages this morning:
Anyone else being threatened for reading messages?
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
For all you developers out there who've seen the insides and outsides of the Facebook developers site so many times that you might as well live there, you now have a chance to tell Facebook...everything about you as a developer.
Pete Bratach posted on the developers blog about a half ...
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
Thanks to Tim Reha, I had the good fortune last year to attend the excellent Future in Review conference in San Diego and have just now signed up for the 2008 event.
Mark Anderson is the impresario who hosts the conference and is the CEO of the Strategic News Service (SNS).
Unlike ...
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Friday, March 28th, 2008
I logged into Facebook this morning to the usual flurry of messages, notifications, pokes and friend requests. As I was responding to each point of contact, I noticed a couple of distinctly weird new behaviors.
First, in my notifications, I was told that someone by the name of Derek had joined ...
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Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Facebook has launched a new feature that shows users who they might be friends with based on their existing connections. Based on my connections, Facebook has recommended 26 new friends. Of those, I actually know four and could appropriately consider being "Facebook friends" with another three.
I'm curious, how accurate has ...
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Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
I made a video this morning that details how Facebook's new Friend List Privacy feature works. It's a really cool way to customize the experience your friends have of your Facebook presence depending on how well you know them.
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Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
In the long view, anything that makes the Facebook user experience better is good for everyone involved, including marketers who are using the site to engage with potential customers. But in the short run, the newly announced privacy improvements present some new challenge for marketers and community builders.
Up until this ...
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Monday, March 10th, 2008
Today's Facebook developer garage was a lot more satisfying than yesterday's very scripted conversation between CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Business Week reporter Sarah Lacy. Zuckerberg took the stage for a good 45 minutes to take questions from the crowd.
He wasn't as open as I would have liked, but I did ...
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Sunday, March 9th, 2008
One of the main reasons I came to SXSW was to see Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg speak. I thought he might reveal something new, or talk about something big, or even open his own kimono a bit so that we can get a sense of who this kid ...
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