While the worldwide adoption of social networking is still increasing, other forms of social interactions, such as content creation, have experienced no significant growth in the past year, according to a new report from Forrester Research. “Social Technographics data can be used as a benchmark to help understand where certain social media approaches might work and where they might fail,” said Forrester Research Consumer Insights Analyst … [Read more...]
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David Fincher Shares Real Thoughts on the Facebook Story
September 27, 2010 By admin
David Fincher, the director of The Social Network shares some interesting thoughts about the story told in the movie - the founding of Facebook. In a press conference following a screening of the film in New York, Fincher lets loose on his thoughts about how the situation among Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin and Sean Parker went down. Fincher says calling the Mark Zuckerberg character an "asshole" is a "reductive and overly-simplistic" … [Read more...]
Facebook Likes Just Officially Became More Important to Search
September 27, 2010 By admin
Facebook announced a few Platform updates, including updates to the Live Stream Plugin, Liked articles appearing in search results, and improvements to real-time updates. The second one is in line with a feature the company was testing that we mentioned recently. "Consistent with how we treat other Open Graph object types, we’ve introduced the ability to see articles shared by your friends in the search typeahead," says Facebook's Namita … [Read more...]
Twitter Reportedly Set to Unveil "Promoted Accounts"
September 27, 2010 By admin
Twitter will reportedly announce another product for bringing in revenue tomorrow at the IAB MIXX Expo. Peter Kafka at All Things Digital says sources "familiar with the company's plans" told him they will show off "Promoted Accounts". These accounts would simply appear in the "who to follow" section on Twitter. It's just that companies or individuals would pay Twitter to appear there. If I'm not mistaken, Jason Calacanis offered to buy a … [Read more...]
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Why is Facebook so Blue in Color?
September 27, 2010 By admin
This is original design of Facebook when it was called thefacebook.com – you were required to have an .edu email address to even open an account on Facebook. This is Facebook now – open for all and 500 million people are using it already. Why is Facebook Blue? Facebook has gone through some major redesigns in the past few years but one part that has more or less stayed the same in all those years is the site’s blue … [Read more...]
Movie Review: The Social Network (The Facebook Movie)
September 24, 2010 By admin
It's not often I get the opportunity to write movie reviews for WebProNews, because it's not often that major motion pictures are released about subjects within our general scope of coverage. I had the opportunity to attend a screening of The Social Network last night, so it seems appropriate that I offer my thoughts about the film here. Do you plan to see The Social Network? Let us know. Interestingly, the theater had tighter security than … [Read more...]
Facebook Explains Outage
September 24, 2010 By admin
Facebook was down for over 2.5 hours for some users, according to a post from the company. A post in Facebook's engineering notes says: The key flaw that caused this outage to be so severe was an unfortunate handling of an error condition. An automated system for verifying configuration values ended up causing much more damage than it fixed. The intent of the automated system is to check for configuration values that are invalid in the … [Read more...]
"Facebook vs. Google" May Extend Well Beyond Social
September 23, 2010 By admin
The Facebook/Google competition is getting more and more interesting. Last week, we talked about Google's social plans and what "Google Me" will actually be. Basically, what it comes down to is that it will not be a new social network, but rather a "social layer" added to existing Google products. I made the case that "Google Me" is probably already bigger than Facebook, based on Google's existing products, and that if the company gets the … [Read more...]
White Spaces, Verizon Tiered Data Plans & Facebook Troubles
September 23, 2010 By admin
The FCC voted today on rules that will enable the use of TV white spaces to provide wireless broadband connectivity. Google and Microsoft both issued updates applauding the ruling. "As more people access information via mobile and other intelligent devices, additional strain is being put on existing wireless networks," said Craig Mundie, Microsoft’s Chief Research and Strategy Officer. "Microsoft appreciates the hard work by FCC Chairman … [Read more...]
LinkedIn Gets Integrated with Windows Live Messenger
September 23, 2010 By admin
LinkedIn and Microsoft announced today that Windows Live Messenger users can now link their Windows Live profile to LinkedIn. There are four main areas Microsoft says its focused on with its LinkedIn integration. These are: - Keeping your contact list organized with auto contact linking across Hotmail, Messenger and the rest of Windows Live - Helping you use Messenger to keep up with what your LinkedIn contacts are doing. - Making it … [Read more...]
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