El LIBRO NEGRO de Facebook - Todos los SECRETOS Revelados. - iGo. Rupert Murdoch: Facebook is Just a Directory. Rupert Murdoch, the 78-year-old CEO and chairman of News Corp., just gave a revealing interview to The Street's Dan Freed. In this interview, Murdoch argues that the latest head-count reduction at MySpace was necessary because the number of employees at the company had grown out of control. In addition, he also told Freed that he wants the site to be very different from Facebook, which, in his eyes, is nothing more than a directory, while MySpace is a place "to find common interests, share music, that sort of thing. " In the same interview, Murdoch also says that he has no idea how to monetize Twitter and that nobody has actually figured out how to monetize "the Web today to any extent other than search. " Micro-payments, in the eyes of Murdoch, are also not a good alternative to advertising revenue, though he still thinks that subscription models for his papers along the lines of what the Wall Street Journal currently does might be a solution for monetizing news content.
Exclusive: Discussing the Future of Facebook with CEO Mark Zucke. There’s a lot happening at Facebook these days. From advertising to payments, search to mobile, platform to privacy, Facebook has teams working on a spectrum of products to serve the company’s 200 million active users – 100 million of which log in every day – in the years ahead. Since Facebook was founded in 2004, it has repeatedly evolved to make it easier for people to share and consume information in trusted and more efficient ways. Facebook has always focused on establishing real identity and user profiles, and that identity continues to be foundational for all of the company’s products and monetization plans today.
In late 2006, Facebook created the now-famous News Feed, making it easier than ever for users to keep track of friends’ activity on the site. Around that same time the company also flirted with acquiring Twitter, the hot “micro-blogging” service, but a deal was never reached. The biggest one that we are pushing is Facebook has people’s real identity. It’s tough to say. China's Facebook Clones. Facebook has launched a Japanese version and a Chinese version (the latter announced this week). However, many Facebook clones have been in operation in China for a long time.
So whether Facebook has an official presence in China does not really matter for millions of Chinese users. Perhaps you are bored with these China copycat stories. However if we study in depth these Chinese Facebook clones, as we will do in this post, they are more innovative and colorful than meets the eye. Many of the sites below started out as simple clones, but they have each developed their own identity. The most well-known Facebook copycat is Xiaonei.com. Of course, it was not only Xiaonei that copied the design of Facebook.
Change and Evolution Similar layouts do not mean these Chinese Facebooks function the same as the real Facebook. UCenter has integrated with Comsenz's other products, such as BBS (bulletin board system) product Discuz!. I took screenshots of the top menu and side bar of all these sites. Facebook-992x1024.jpg (JPEG Imagen, 992x1024 pixels) - Escalado. 6 Gorgeous Facebook Visualizations. Like every complex network, Facebook offers unlimited possibilities of visual representation of the various connections between its users. We've chosen six beautiful visualizations that will awaken the (visual) geek within you. You don't have to stop at merely watching. Some of the visualizations on the list come with tools that you can use to create beautiful Facebook visualizations of your own with very little effort.
Enjoy! Know of a beautiful Facebook visualization? Let us know in the comments! 1. This project visualizes all the data Facebook receives, on a global scale. 2. This wonderful illustration, created by Lee Byron from the Facebook data team, shows how Facebook has evolved from being a social network for universities to the global social networking powerhouse it is today, with over 200 million users. 3.
Friend Wheel is a simple Facebook application that creates a radial graph out of all your Facebook friends. 4. 5. Still images really don't do justice to this one. 6. The Facebook Death Star Moves Across The Web Universe (Slides) Facebook's valuation: The cheat sheet | The Social - CNET N. Seriously, how much is Facebook worth? It's been an enigma in tech gossip for years now, as the social-networking company grows bigger and bigger and yet remains privately held.
And some of Facebook's most rapid growth has taken place in the midst of a stormy economic climate that could batter any company's balance sheet. So here's a rundown of what tech blogs, news outlets, investors, and Valley gadflies have said thus far about just how much Facebook is worth. Are all these numbers accurate? One thing that's interesting: Take a look at the trajectory. What's next? DiegoLeal.org: El crecimiento de Facebook...
Via Franco Pirelli, un infográfico original de The New York Times, que muestra la evolución en cobertura y edades de usuarios de Facebook: Algo que llamó de inmediato mi atención es cómo ha evolucionado Facebook en Brasil. Aquí, la red social más importante es Orkut (de propiedad de Google), no Facebook. No obstante, sí aparece una zona de Brasil "afectada" por Facebook. ¿Cuál? ¿Por qué ocurre eso? Rio es un polo turístico/comercial muy importante a nivel global. En síntesis, una razón con dos caras: Migración (permamente o temporal), con los efectos de generación de lazos sociales que conlleva. Muy interesante... F al cubo: Facebook como fenómeno foucaultiano. Facebook Shuts Down RSS Feed App. The Facebook Newsfeed: so much juicy information, so little access to it. Last week we wrote about a new Facebook app that turned your newsfeed into an RSS feed you could subscribe to outside of Facebook. It was really useful and now it's gone.
Even the app's developer agrees that the app crossed the line, overstepping Facebook's much celebrated privacy controls. We're still disappointed though, and we wish that this rich source of data could be opened up for developers and users to build value on top of. What kind of publishing system doesn't offer an RSS feed? A fundamentally closed one. There's something mind boggling about the fact that Facebook opened up user news feeds through the Activity Streams Atom protocol, thus allowing other applications to access and work with all that data, but explicitly prohibits the same information from being served up to users themselves as an RSS feed. But it was really useful. We're not sure how useful those options sound.
Facebook Statistics, Demographics, Reports, and News – CheckFace. Keep It Simple, Stupid. K-I-S-S: Keep It Simple, Stupid. It’s a mantra that always pops into my head when I’m looking at new startups. A lot of them seem to want to do a million different things because other companies have been successful at one of those things in the past. But that’s a bad idea. Way too many new products and services are too complicated. And I would suggest, often fail as a direct result of that.
On the face of it, it makes sense to give users a lot of options when it comes to features, and let them decide what to use and what not to use. And that’s important. Since its inception, some people have been saying Twitter is silly. That, in turn, has led to an entire ecosystem of third party applications that now run on top of it. Let’s talk about Facebook for a second. I’d argue that’s one reason why we see so much backlash when Facebook makes design tweaks nowadays. On a much larger scale, I’d argue that it’s the same trap Windows falls into. But let’s go back to the core of simplicity. Is Facebook a Cult? Facebook announced that it hit 200 million users today and Chief Operating Officer Cheryl Sandberg made a blog post describing some of the data mining that the company is doing of those connections.
It's going to be great for advertisers, she says, it should also be very good for the rest of us as well. I think it's creepy. It's all about "The Stream. " The conversations we have in public parts of the site, the items we interact with in our Facebook Newsfeeds, and the way that builds connections between a larger group of people. Photo: From the Grand Rapids Michigan Zombie Walk, where thousands of people gathered on the streets merely dressed as zombies, after meeting on Facebook. Sociologist Robert J. A theory: Facebook management is acting like a group of cult leaders intent on changing the rest of us into more social, less private people than we might want to be. Six weeks ago we wrote that Facebook's management had lost its grip on reality. Does that sound like Facebook? How Big is Facebook? Mark Ghuneim, (@mediaeater) is the Founder/CEO of digital marketing agency and technology incubator Wiredset and social media tracking service Trendrr.
It’s amazing to think just a few short years ago the “interweb” was abuzz with the dominance of FriendsterFriendster reviews , YouTubeYouTube reviews was a simple beta test of cat videos, and the word tweet was only used to describe the sound of a bird. Changes to the social web continue to accelerate, with new generations joining the party and new platforms changing the way we communicate. Few have grown to capture as much mindshare as Facebook. Filosofitis Ideaclips. Facebook’s Clinically Precise Advertising. No matter what you think about Facebook, I think that nearly everything they've done can be described with one word: precision. In contrast to MySpace's messy profile pages, Facebook looks like an interior of a Swiss bank. Their privacy options are very precise: you can choose exactly which users can see which parts of your profile. Their ads are very well targeted (especially for users out of the US; Google AdSense ads I'm seeing pale in comparison).
Now, they've introduced some very interesting options that I haven't seen elsewhere: language and radius-based ad targeting for advertisers. Sure, you were able to target your ads by country before; but in some countries, several different languages are spoken. Furthermore, you can target users by radius, which means that you can select a city and include all other city within a 10, 24 or 50 mile radius. Facebook Will Be the Mainstream Everything - ReadWriteWeb. Whenever a new product comes out that has the early adopter set all atwitter -- like say, Twitter, for example -- there is a certain amount of discussion devoted to when or if the product will go mainstream. Sometimes we're not even sure if a new web app or service maybe already has reached the masses. A lucky few new web apps will cross the proverbial chasm into the mainstream, but most won't. Some those that don't will nonetheless see their ideas co-opted by a site that is already undeniably mainstream -- Facebook.
A lot of sites that early adopters love probably won't fly with the mainstream because those users are a tougher sell. Facebook, on the other hand, has already captured the collective mind share of the mainstream and can take the good ideas set forth by early adopter hits and repackage them in ways that their users are more apt to consume.
A study (PDF) by Yahoo! Don't Look Now, But Facebook is Eating Your Lunch But Facebook keeps my data locked up, you might say. Conclusion. How Facebook Is Bringing Web 2.0 Mainstream. Web 2.0 is an echo-chamber - let’s face it. Many deny the fact, but it’s true. Ask anyone on the street about RSS, widgets, APIs, or wikis and you’ll get a blank face. Chances are they’ll think you’re speaking another language. Even fairly tech savvy Internet users frown upon such terms and phrases. As much as we’d like to think web 2.0 is mainstream, it isn’t. Those who live in this echo-chamber glorify the trends and technologies, as their value and potential is recognizable. This bleeding-edge Internet group wants the world to learn about these technologies, but the fact of the matter is that they are very daunting and intimidating to the average user.
Who is leading the pack when it comes to humanizing web 2.0? Ask any Facebook user if they know what RSS is or if they’ve ever used it? This brings me to the most important point of all: Facebook is educating the masses about web 2.0 without them even knowing. How is Facebook accomplishing such an improbable feat? The 9 types of Facebook friends. Like just about everyone who joins Facebook, I started an account two months ago hoping to reconnect with old friends, network within my chosen profession and find out which people from my high school are still hot.
What I didn't expect was how much the online social networking community would be just like going back to 11th grade. There are fewer people wearing Depeche Mode T-shirts and more people sharing random things about themselves, and my locker combination has been replaced with a password. But the sting of rejection, the sanctimony of the popular kids, dressing up for picture day and even the random chatter in the hallways is pretty much exactly the same. Facebook, which started as a networking site for Harvard University students and is now based in Palo Alto, boasts 175 million active users. Amazingly, it's possible to break them down into a handful of stereotypes. Annoyance factor: 35 Annoyance factor: 15 Annoyance factor: 92 Annoyance factor: 100 Annoyance factor: 28. Primates on Facebook. Facebook Opens Up Its Terms Of Service To Input From Users. Facebook Photos Pulls Away From The Pack. Facebook Users Are Becoming Big Fans of Masturbation, And Other. FacebookStudy.Com.
Mainstream media finds its way through Facebook. About Facebook - The Atlantic (October 2007) Facebook For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)): Carolyn Abra. 2g19b89ezl6ursp6e749.pdf (application/pdf Objeto) The Secret to Increasing Traffic from Facebook without Building. Nuevos datos de los países hispanos con más usuarios en Facebook.
Lessons from Facebook: The Effect of Social Network Sites on Col.