Coming out of the Bannatyne’s Gym this evening a news piece on Sky News caught my eye about social networks. It was the news indeed (published on Facebook yesterday) that they were cash flow positive: “Earlier this year, we said we expected to be cash flow positive sometime in 2010, and I’m pleased to share [...]
Twitter climbs the ranks of popularity in 2009 — especially if you include traffic from mobile devices (which aren’t counted in this piece).
Facebook simplifies privacy settings, removes regional settings, and upsets the experts. But what do its users think?
Personally my take on this is simply to converge my identity to one username: stuartgh — for [...]
Someone’s tried to set up an account using an email from my domain. I’m now getting friend confirmations based on that account. Hmm, so what does Facebook help centre say on the matter?
I received an account creation email, but I’m already registered.
If you have received a Facebook account confirmation email in error, it’s likely that [...]
Nice story from Valleywag. I like the comment about Apple culture, as seen by the public, and as seen by insiders. Backs up my hunch. Please can Google buy Twitter rather than Apple?
Facebook tried to buy Twitter. Google and Microsoft have been giving the red-hot Internet-messaging startup the eye. But we hear it’s Apple that’s [...]
Great example from Inside Facebook of why consulting your community over core changes makes sense, after Facebook had a lrage scale revolt recently after unilaterally changing its T and Cs:
As part of its new process for updating the siteâs new Terms of Service documents, Facebook has announced the first-ever user vote on proposed changes. On [...]
Why are profiles important?
The way profiles works reflects the fact that the quality of communities reflects individual membersâ actions, which is the prime driver of the success of a community.
If a member decides not to complete their profile then theyâve chosen to be relatively anonymous, whether they know it or not. But if as community [...]
Trying to figure out how the search works on Facebook isn’t easy, so here’s a couple of neat links that might help:
Blog #1: Facebook’s search algorithm is the most bizarre search algorithm known to man.
Blog #2: How a corporate can grab back a fan page on FB, using the coca cola example.
Finally (08 Apr 09) [...]
Nice piece on Inside Facebook.
Amusing too when one considers last year’s April Fool that Google had bought Facebook; which I found out about just this week as someone who will remain nameless who works in e-commerce told me this merger as a stone cold fact. I really hope he was joking. Anyhow, piece below:
RBC [...]
Key points as to why Facebook’s attempt to copy Twitter won’t work:
As anyone who has worked in real time systems knows, when you increase the velocity you have to decrease the volume of the content.
The other thing we suspect is that they haven’t architected their network for real time comms – it nearly broke Twitter [...]
