I spotted this via Twitter this morning – a bill of privacy rights for Facebook folks, and social network users in general: Proposed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation: “Social network services must ensure that users have ongoing privacy and control over personal information stored with the service. Users are not just a commodity, and their [...]
It’s three years since Mark Zuckerberg proclaimed the power of the social graph? Well its certainly progressed from the 24 million active users it had it May 2007. Here’s what he said, as reported by ZDNet on the subject. Interesting to note that Ning has had a few problems since then, shedding its free service to most users, while Gina Bianchini has left the company – I guess that’s freedom for you..
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 site’s new Terms of Service documents, Facebook has announced the first-ever user vote on proposed changes. [...]
Why are profiles important? The way profiles works reflects the fact that the quality of communities reflects individual members’ actions, which is the prime driver of the success of a community. If a member decides not to complete their profile then they’ve chosen to be relatively anonymous, whether they know it or not. But if [...]
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 [...]
