Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. The Guy Who Says He Owns 50% Of Facebook Just Filed A Boatload Of New Evidence — And It’s Breathtaking by Henry Blodget, Business Insider http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-lawsuit-paul-ceglia-new-evidence-2011-4 Trouble @ Twitter by Jessi Hempel, Fortune tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/04/14/troubletwitter/ How Paywalls Are Changing News Organizations’ Social Media Strategies by Meghan [...]
Yesterday, Facebook acquired Israeli mobile developer Snaptu (rumored amounts have valued the deal at $70 Million but we’ll have to wait and see). So what does Snaptu do? They enable popular smartphone apps to run on non-smartphones. This means that people with “regular” phones can access apps such as Facebook, LinkedIn, twitter, and more. It’s [...]
Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. The Real Story Behind Twitter’s Ridiculous Follow Bug by John Herrman, Gizmodo http://gizmodo.com/5535536 Google Experiment Gets Creative Job Seeker an Agency Post by Andy Dugdale, Fast Company http://www.fastcompany.com/1646590/the-google-job-experiment-gets-creative-work-seeker-an-agency-post Facebook Apologists Miss The Point: Facebook Isn’t The Future by Stowe Boyd http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/facebook-apologists-miss-the-point-facebook-isnt-the-future.html Creating a Magazine Over [...]
Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. Social Media’s Expanding Role in College Admissions by Elizabeth Schiffman, Politics Daily http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/05/07/social-medias-expanding-role-in-college-admissions/ Facebook And Social Game Companies: The Honeymoon’s Over by Oliver Chiang, Forbes http://blogs.forbes.com/velocity/2010/05/07/facebook-and-social-game-companies-the-honeymoons-over/ Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative by Ryan Singel, Wired http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/05/facebook-rogue/ Teenage Insults, Scrawled on Web, [...]
The more I listen to the conversations about the Facebook privacy and Open Graph changes, the more I wonder if there is an opportunity for another service to come along and possibly steal a share of Facebook’s pie. Strike that. I’m not wondering at all…there is an opportunity. We’ve all logged into Facebook and been [...]
Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. Linking Customer Loyalty With Social Networking by Stephanie Clifford, NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/29/business/media/29adco.html A Troubling Precedent: NJ Court Says Bloggers Are Not Journalists The American Culture http://stkarnick.com/culture/2010/04/28/a-troubling-precedent-nj-court-says-bloggers-are-not-journalists/ N.J. student protests showcase Facebook’s role in mobilizing social movements By Kelly Heyboer, The Star-Ledger http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2010/04/facebook_student_protest_mobilize.html Senator calls on [...]
Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week (slightly late edition). Facebook’s Open Graph Personalizes the Web by Samuel Axon, Mashable http://mashable.com/2010/04/21/facebook-open-graph/ SCARY: Blippy Publishes User Credit Card Numbers by Nicholas Carlson, Business Insider/SAI http://www.businessinsider.com/scary-blippy-publishes-user-credit-card-numbers-2010-4 Nielsen: Facebook’s Ads Work Pretty Well by Jack Neff, Advertising Age http://adage.com/digital/article?article_id=143381 Boxee, Roku Announcing Deals for Streaming [...]
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