Dear Facebook, Please Return Our Social Networking Space. The following is a guest post by David Dalka. Dalka is a digital business strategist and keynote speaker who was a member of BlackRock (BLK) during its hyper-growth phase of 80 to 800 people. He is a top ten contributor to CrunchBase, strategist to senior executives on how digital marketing tactics are transforming business strategy and revenue generation, blogger and is currently working on a nonfiction business book proposal.
According to TechCrunch Editor Michael Arrington, Dalka currently lives in a location of “horrendous weather eight months out of the year”. (Editor’s note: Maybe you can entice him to move somewhere else? About a month ago there was a loud outcry when Facebook inexplicably introduced a smaller font size to its News Feed. A month later, hidden behind all the public relations hoopla regarding Mark Zuckerberg’s chat with former President Bush and appearance on 60 Minutes, I finally realized the motive for last month’s text size reduction.
“Google, Yahoo! Yes, Zuckerberg deserves to be Person of the Year | The Social. Commentary He's only 26, he's been at the helm of his company for less than a decade, and one of the most famous uses for the technology he's built is that it facilitates tens of millions of people to start virtual farms with cartoon cows . Yet Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, is Time magazine's 2010 Person of the Year --and it's a title he deserves. The Web, of course, is sniping at this choice as they often will with sweeping, editorially arbitrary decisions of what's important and what isn't. Some prominent members of the media promptly criticized Time for settling on the relatively feel-good choice of Zuckerberg rather than a figure who presents a real threat or controversy.
The privacy concerns that Facebook presents are serious, thought-provoking issues worth addressing , but for the most part they have not veered into matters of national security. Who would you have voted for as Person of the Year--Zuckerberg, or one of the four runners-up? Mark Zuckerberg Named Time Magazine’s 2010 Person Of The Year. Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg has been named Time Magazine’s person of the year. He will, of course, grace the magazine’s cover for the special edition, as the individual who has done the most to influence the events within a year. Zuckerberg isn’t a surprising pick, considering the huge year Facebook has seen in terms of massive user growth, controversy surrounding privacy issues, and the release of new products. And The Social Network’s success also contributed to the media frenzy surrounding the company and its founder.
Here’s what the publication had to say about why they chose Zuck: “For connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them; for creating a new system of exchanging information; and for changing how we all live our lives, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is TIME’s 2010 Person of the Year. Zuck will join a host of Presidents who have received the honor including Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. Mark Zuckerberg, l'homme de l'année de "Time" Person of the Year 2010. Zuckerberg On Privacy, WikiLeaks And More [Video] The World’s Facebook Relationships Visualized [PIC] Click the image for the full-sized version. This is what the world looks like, according to the Facebook social graph. Facebook intern Paul Butler was interested in the locations of friendships, so he decided to create a visualization of Facebook connections around the globe.
How local are our friends? Where are the highest concentration of friendships? Butler started by using a sample of 10 million friend pairs, correlated them with their current cities and then mapped that data using the longitude and latitude of each city. That was the easy part. "I began exploring it in R, an open-source statistics environment. With a few more tweaks, he eventually came up with the amazing visualization you see here. What do you think of the visualization? How To Recreate That Facebook Profile Picture Hack. Since French artist Alexandre Oudin took advantage of the new Facebook design to express himself, we’ve been seeing some creative ways to mess with your (and your friends’) profile pictures. As we predicted, Oudin’s hack has inspired other users to play around with their profile to pretty interesting effect.
And for those of you that don’t want to trial and error around with the 532 px by 180 px and 97 by 68 px image limitations, photographer Florian Stravock has made the above Photoshop tutorial to help you perfectly execute on your super profile pic. Abridged steps, below: 1) Take a screenshot of your current Facebook page. 2) Create a new Photoshop doc. 3) Grab the Slice tool (same family as the Crop tool) and select around the pictures. 4) With the Marquee tool, select around the sliced areas. 5) Bring the image that you want on Facebook into Photoshop and position it roughly the way you want it. 6) Drag the image layer under the Facebook layer and refine your positioning.
Facebook vs. Google: le match se resserre. Le roi Google doit désormais compter avec la concurrence du site communautaire Facebook, qui en six ans seulement a réussi à contester sa suprématie sur le web avec une vision radicalement différente de ce que recherchent les internautes. Le patron fondateur de Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, a reconnu au début du mois qu'«il est clair qu'il y a des domaines dans lesquels les deux sociétés sont en compétition».
Le plus jeune milliardaire au monde (26 ans), dont la fortune est estimée à 6,9 milliards de dollars, n'a pas non plus nié l'objectif que lui prêtait une journaliste de la chaîne CBS de vouloir «conquérir tout internet». L'ascension d'un deuxième Internet Pour certains, l'irrésistible ascension de Facebook marque l'avènement d'un «deuxième internet». Il est «peut-être plus précieux que le premier, parce que nous y sommes tous interconnectés», déclare Lou Kerner, analyste du secteur à la société de courtage Wedbush Securities. Cartographie numérique des relations Guerre larvée Emulation.