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Articles Of The Week – Part 19

Posted by admin on May 23, 2010 . Leave a response

Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. Facebook, MySpace Confront Privacy Loophole by Emily Steel and Jessica E. Vascellaro, WSJ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704513104575256701215465596.html Twitter seems hell bent on not letting you re-tweet how you want to by Brad McCarty, The Next Web http://thenextweb.com/apps/2010/05/19/twitter-seems-hell-bent-on-not-letting-you-re-tweet-how-you-want-to/ Papa John’s Recruits Facebook Fans to Create Next Pizza by Jennifer [...]

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Articles Of The Week – Part 18

Posted by admin on May 16, 2010 . Leave a response

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 [...]

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Articles Of The Week – Part 17

Posted by admin on May 10, 2010 . Leave a response

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, [...]

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Articles Of The Week – Part 15

Posted by admin on April 27, 2010 . Leave a response

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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Articles Of The Week – Part 14

Posted by admin on April 18, 2010 . Leave a response

Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. How Tweet It Is!: Library Acquires Entire Twitter Archive by Matt Raymond, Library of Congress blog http://www.loc.gov/tweet/how-tweet-it-is.html Boy Scouts Add a New Digital Badge by Nick Bilton, NY Times http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/boy-scouts-add-a-new-digital-badge/ Twitter Rolls Out Ads by Jessica E. Vascellaro and Emily Steel, WSJ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303695604575182233558434518.html iPad online [...]

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Articles Of The Week – Part 13

Posted by admin on April 11, 2010 . Leave a response

Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. Finding a Kidney Donor on Facebook by Jennifer Valentino-DeVries, WSJ http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/04/08/finding-a-kidney-donor-on-facebook/ Yahoo Considers Buying Foursquare For ~$100 Million by Nicholas Carlson, Silicon Alley Insider http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-considers-buying-foursquare-for-100-million-2010-4 FarmVille user runs up £900 debt by Jill Insley, The Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2010/apr/07/farmville-user-debt-facebook On foursquare, cheating, and claiming mayorships from your [...]

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Articles Of The Week – Part 9

Posted by admin on March 14, 2010 . Leave a response

Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. Restaurant Owner Increases Sales by 110% with Foursquare Swarm Badge Party by Pamela Seiple, HubSpot Blog http://blog.hubspot.com/blog/tabid/6307/bid/5697/Restaurant-Owner-Increases-Sales-by-110-with-Foursquare-Swarm-Badge-Party.aspx Austin Or Bust: 25 Entrepreneurs, Five Ideas And One Bus by Tomio Geron, WSJ http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2010/03/09/austin-or-tech-bust-25-entrepreneurs-five-ideas-and-one-bus/ Why do we ignore ‘real-time’ results from Google search? by Charles Arthur, The [...]

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Articles Of The Week – Part 8

Posted by admin on March 7, 2010 . Leave a response

Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. Google wins patent for location-based advertising by Kim-Mai Cutler, VentureBeat http://digital.venturebeat.com/2010/03/01/google-location-ads/ Investors Bet on Price of Facebook IPO by Jessica E. Vascellaro, WSJ http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/03/04/investors-bet-on-price-of-facebook-ipo/ Nokia Ovi Store now up to 1.5m downloads a day Music Ally http://musically.com/blog/2010/03/03/nokia-ovi-store-now-up-to-1-5m-downloads-a-day/ Cashmore: Why I’m banking on Facebook by Pete [...]

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Working with Zuck – What It’s Like To Work With Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg

Posted by admin on March 4, 2010 . Leave a response

Recently in a few Wall Street Journal articles, there was a note referencing a memo from a Facebook engineer title “Working with Zuck.” Today, on Facebook Engineering’s notes page they’ve graciously posted the memo for all to see.  In case you haven’t come across it, I thought I would post it below.  Facebook has a [...]

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Articles Of The Week – Part 6

Posted by admin on February 21, 2010 . Leave a response

Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. The Surreal World of Chatroulette by Nick Bilton, NY Times http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/weekinreview/21bilton.html Facebook, PayPal partner on advertising, virtual goods payments by Kim-Mai Cutler, VentureBeat http://venturebeat.com/2010/02/18/facebook-paypal/ Dear SNL: Facebook Will Force You to Heart Betty White by Kara Swisher, All Things Digital/WSJ http://kara.allthingsd.com/20100218/dear-snl-facebook-will-force-you-to-heart-betty-white/ What Kevin Smith means [...]

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