Just so you know there really is no essential difference between Facebook and the early days AOL. They are both limited, in that each has developed a community and has limited growth potential. Even with developer support, apps and such, the Facebook idea has an expiration date. Google on the other hand has no scope, [...]
There was uproar when Facebook introduced a system that would allow third parties to get users private information. Although the users were required to give consent for this to happen the general feeling was that more effort should have been put in ensuring that users knew what kind of information would be accessed. Facebook reacted [...]
Menlo Park may well be the next popular Bay Area for existing tech companies and startups too. Its neighbor to the south, Palo Alto is already a great income earner for the landlords who are reaping handsomely from the rise in rents occasioned by demand for office space in the area. Now all indications point [...]
Some two students at the Indiana University recently uncovered a weak point on the Facebook platform that allowed attackers to gain access to users’ data. According to the two students, Rui Wang and Zhou Li, there is a flaw on Facebook’s platform that allows a malicious site to pose as other websites and gain access [...]
StumbleUpon is all smiles as a report from StatCounter showed that it was leading as the site with the highest referral traffic to all the major social media sites. No doubt that the StumbleUpon CEO Garret Camp was elated when he tweeted out that they, a company that has around 13 million users, had surpassed [...]
It appears that Facebook may just be on the way to realizing a different but major revenue avenue. Facebook has now included a “shop now” tab on brands fan pages. One big brand has already started making use of the facility and is selling one of Proctor and Gamble’s products. The Pampers fan page allows [...]
That Facebook has been growing in leaps and bounds is not new information. For the last year and a half Facebook has been on the fourth position in the world’s largest websites ranking. Its number of unique visitors has kept on growing and in October this year it was in a “somewhat tie” with Yahoo [...]
It has now emerged that yet another Googler is moving to Facebook come next year. Paul Adams came to the limelight when he made the “Real Life Social Network” slide which showed how the Facebook Social graphs representing human relationships had gaps. The slide itself was viewed by over 400,000 people and was shared on [...]
In one of the several announcements that Bing made yesterday the focus was on its relationship with Facebook. The past few months have seen Bing integrate Facebook data more deeply in its search results and rankings. For instance, for some months now Bing has has been displaying the “liked” content from Facebook during a search. [...]
Path seems ready to embrace Facebook in some way. The startup’s founder Dave Morin who left Facebook to start Path announced on a blog post that Path and Facebook and Path were now in an open relationship. Although Path is taking it slowly the move is still a step worth noting. Before the startup was [...]
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