That seems believable to us. But what do we know? We’re just bloggers. So we asked a professional: Keith Rabois, who heads up biz dev at Slide, the reigning king of Facebook apps. Keith’s response: Yeah, that looks real to me. (via Is The Redesign Killing Facebook Apps?)
September 23, 2008, 10:31am
“Hey, Mark Zuckerberg, listen up: This is about how to monetize Facebook. The billion-dollar answer awaits you just below. Just hang on for about 5,000 words, and no skipping ahead, please. That’ll just ruin the suspense.”
— Your Data With Destiny - Advertising Age - Digital
September 18, 2008, 11:31am
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August 21, 2008, 11:24am
“Not to rain on their party but how are they translating this massive audience into revenue?”
— Facebook Is Not Only The World’s Largest Social Network, It Is Also The Fastest Growing
August 12, 2008, 9:09pm
“Indeed, this move incentivizes current employees to stay with the company while simultaneously allowing them to reap some of the benefits of their hard work.”
— Facebook to let employees sell some stock options — at internal $4 billion valuation » VentureBeat
August 04, 2008, 2:50pm
“Or perhaps, like Gates, you just find Facebook a little…creepy. Businesspeople often claim to use Facebook for vague “market research” purposes or to satisfy idle curiosity. But the social norms of social networking are still in flux, making privacy a real issue, says internet-marketing writer David Weinberger. “Younger people violate older people’s idea of proper behavior when it comes to privacy,” he says.”
— Facebooks Impact on CEOs - Portfolio.com
July 27, 2008, 1:35pm
The Facebook redesign seems to have missed two points:
- Whitespace is good, but adding whitespace around a billion tiny things doesn’t really solve the problem of having a billion tiny things on screen.
- There’s a difference between activity and content. Content is activity, but activity is not content. Showing me the fine details of how my high-school classmates change their Facebook settings isn’t interesting or relevant. It brings me no value.
Thoughts?
July 22, 2008, 10:06am
“In the last four weeks, South America and Central America / Caribbean have been the regions the adding the most Facebook accounts percentage wise. Combined, the regions seem to have a little more than 5 million users. The country with the highest growth was Chile, followed by Uruguay, and Argentina.”
— Digital Perspective Blog » Blog Archive » Facebook and LATAM are in love…
July 22, 2008, 10:04am
“As supporters started to join MyBo in early 2007, Mr. Hughes brought a growth strategy, borrowed from Facebook’s founding principles: keep it real, and keep it local. Mr. Hughes wanted Mr. Obama’s social network to mirror the off-line world the same way that Facebook seeks to, because supporters would foster more meaningful connections by attending neighborhood meetings and calling on people who were part of their daily lives. The Internet served as the connective tissue.”
— The Facebooker Who Friended Obama - NYTimes.com
July 07, 2008, 1:38pm
