How Facebook eclipsed Google in 2010. Facebook beat out Google as the No. 1 most-visited site in the United States in 2010, according to the web analytics firm Hitwise. Facebook surpasses Google as the most-visited website in the U.S., according to Hitwise Websites can opt to use your Facebook account for one-click signup Google, owner of YouTube, still serves up the vast majority of online video views Editor's note: Pete Cashmore is founder and CEO of Mashable, a popular blog about social media. He writes a weekly column about social networking and tech for CNN.com. (CNN) -- Facebook beat out Google as the No. 1 most-visited site in the United States in 2010, according to Internet analytics firm Hitwise. How was Facebook able to outplay the former Web champion? Let's begin by admitting that the Hitwise data doesn't represent the whole truth. Nonetheless, there's a tectonic shift at work here: Facebook, once easily dismissed as the next social networking fad, has seemingly discovered Google's weak spots.
Identity Wars. “The Social Network”: Mashable’s Complete Movie Review. On the surface, The Social Network is the story of Facebook — a website created in a Harvard dorm room in 2004 that has redefined how we connect and communicate in the 21st century. At its core, the film is much, much more than just the story of one website. It is both a micro and macro look at success, failure and the trappings of ego and greed. The film is ostensibly based on real people and real events. That said, many of the proceedings and characters were invented for the screen.
For better or for worse, the cinematic version of "the Facebook story" will be what becomes the lore surrounding the company, much as The Pirates of Silicon Valley has become the unofficial history of Microsoft and Apple for a generation of users. The Beginning Warning: The following review contains spoilers The film opens with one of its strongest scenes, a five-minute interchange between a 19-year-old Mark Zuckerberg and his girlfriend.
As Zuckerberg, Jesse Eisenberg is brilliant. The Second Act Summation. Maintained Relationships on Facebook | overstated. This past week the Economist published a piece entitled Primates On Facebook that described some research done by the Facebook Data Team. Since there have been a number of questions throughout the monkeysphere, we thought we would take the opportunity to describe our approach, the data, and our analysis. We were asked a simple question: is Facebook increasing the size of people’s personal networks? This is a particularly difficult question to answer, so as a first attempt we looked into the types of relationships people do maintain, and the relative size of these groups. The image above presents a high-level overview of our findings: while the average Facebook user communicates with a small subset of their entire friend network, they maintain relationships with a group two times the size of this core.
This not only affects each user, but also has systemic effects that may explain why things spread so quickly on Facebook. Before discussing the data, let us first set the context. Facebook Unveils Recommended Subscriptions. What do you get when you combine the biggest collection of personal taste data in history with the world's easiest method of subscribing to syndicated content?
In theory, one of the most potent recommendation engines around. Facebook quietly made available to all its 500 million plus users a new feature today called the Page Browser and though everything about it is quite understated - it could prove to be a very big deal. Users must navigate directly to the Page Browser, there doesn't appear to be any link from the main interface.
The page shows big icons for a list of pages Facebook thinks you might like; click on one and you'll "Like" it. Of course Facebook has succeeded by making very potent interactions seem simple from the outside - and this new feature is more of the same. Facebook could probably offer recommendations that were almost perfectly within your taste profile, but these recommendations aren't and I'm guessing that's intentional. Recommendation vs. Looking at, looking up or keeping up with people? Sex! Hackers! Embellishment! The Inside Story of the Facebook Movie | Magazine. Computer guys have never had a this-is-our-moment movie that makes a splashy myth out of quotidian reality—where everyone looks sexy-tormented in the bargain.Illustration: Martin Ansin Mark Zuckerberg is many things, not least a student of the classics. He reads Latin and ancient Greek, and his personal motto is said to be Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit, or, loosely translated, “Maybe one day we’ll look back on all this shit and laugh.”
Lately, though, he’s probably meditating on another Latin phrase: annus horribilis. Because it’s been one lousy year for the 26-year-old CEO, despite (and also because of) the success of his dormitory-born company, Facebook, aka the most trafficked social-networking site on earth. He might as well get used to it. In early October, with much fanfare and an eye on the Oscars, Sony Pictures is releasing The Social Network, its liberally dramatized, completely unauthorized, and (its makers hasten to add) thoroughly researched Facebook origin story. Facebook Goes To Hollywood. “The Social Network”: Trailer e Polemiche. "The Social Network" Writer on Mark Zuckerberg: "I've Been That Guy"
The Social Network screenwriter Aaron Sorkin voiced "empathy" for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's position as an accused idea thief — an accusation that plays a central role in the film about the young executive. The film is based on a book called Accidental Billionaires, which among other things accounts a dispute between Zuckerberg and individuals who accused him of stealing their ideas when creating the social network. Sorkin said in an interview with Time, "I've been that guy. I've been the Mark Zuckerberg in that situation, and I have absolute empathy for him. " He referenced occasions when would-be screenwriters tried to claim that they'd come up with the idea for The West Wing, the TV series he ran for seven years, as the reasons for his empathy. At one point in the film the Zuckerberg character says, "If you guys were the inventors of Facebook, you would have invented Facebook.
" As is the case with most film versions of true stories, the facts aren't all straight. Exclusive: Trent Reznor on "The Social Network" and the Evolving Music Biz [INTERVIEW] Back when it was first announced that rocker Trent Reznor would be scoring David Fincher's The Social Network, we thought it was a match made in pop culture heaven — a movie about the dark side of the social networking biz, scored by a man who has plumbed the depths of social media, while also wrestling with its implications?
Sign us up. Well, we got an aural glimpse at the soundtrack the other week after Reznor, along with his record company, The Null Corporation, and Sony’s Madison Gate Records announced the disc on Null Co's website and gave fans a five-song sneak peek. Now we're itching to see how music and celluloid go together. As the premiere of the highly anticipated film rapidly approaches, we decided to talk with Reznor about the experience of scoring a movie in its entirety, the state of the music industry, and, of course, social media on the whole. Check out our interview with the rocker below. It's not about how the kid in the dorm room that likes to listen to music. The Social Network - Official Site.