Archive for November, 2007

Alexa Data is Definitely Wrong

One of my readers brought to my attention Alexa’s graph that compares MySpace and Facebook. Earlier today, Facebook crossed paths with MySpace. If you compare Compete.com’s graph, there is no way that Facebook has as much traffic as MySpace. There is no doubt that they will surpass MySpace is traffic at some point next year […]

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Facebook Beacon: Time to Start Asking Questions

This afternoon, Peter Kafka proposed how to solve the Facebook Beacon issue. In order to solve a problem, you first need to assume that a problem exists. I for one, think that there is somewhat of a problem that exists. The problem is not Facebook Beacon though. The real issue is privacy. The web has […]

Facebook eBay Scams

There have always been scammers on eBay trying to get money from uninformed buyers. This problem will always exist in any economy. Facebook is obviously a hot topic currently and there is also a fair amount of money being made by a few individuals. Wherever there is money being made, individuals will try to find […]

Celebrate the Holidays on Facebook

Over the past few days I have been seeing an increasing number of holiday applications show up on Facebook. Given that this is the holiday season I thought it would be worthwhile to post a couple of the holiday applications available to users. One of the best ones I’ve seen so far is the Hanukkah […]

Facebook Censorship Continues

Yesterday, Mike Arrington posted about potential censorship by Facebook of Moveon.org’s Facebook group that was created in protest of Facebook Beacon. Dustin Moskovitz joined the comment stream to say that this was simply a technical bug. While it may have been, what is not a technical bug is Facebook’s decision to prevent the word “MySpace” […]

Facebook Stats

Via TechCrunch - A research study conducted shows a total of 42,966,780 members in the top 31 countries. America is at top of the list with18 million users, followed by the UK (6.8m), Canada (6.7m), Australia (1.9m) and Turkey (1.6m).
US is dominated by female users who occupy about 60%. Forty percent of U.S. users […]

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Facebook Banned in UAE too?

Like Orkut internet users in UAE are unable to access Facebook and it is being largely believed that it has been banned in UAE. A number of Facebook users in the last two days are noticing an error message on their screens.
According to Mark Porter, a resident of Dubai, “After the ban on Orkut […]
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Happy Thanksgiving!

Anne Zelenka has a great post in which she gives thanks for Facebook for helping people to become more connected. I just wanted to say thanks to all of you for returning to my blog on a regular basis and I also owe thank to Facebook for making this blog possible. The past six months […]

Facebook users mobilize for oil spill cleanup

A carrier ship called the Cosco Busan recently smacked into the San Francisco Bay Bridge, ripping a gash in its hull and spilling an estimated 58,000 gallons of oil into the Bay.
Since then, there have been thousands of volunteers showing up to help clean the spill, but bureaucracy, fear of lawsuits and a healthy spattering […]

Drug Dealer Caught Through Facebook

21 year old, Rudy Hermann Guede from Ivory Coast wouldn’t have imagined in the wildest of his dreams that he would be caught because of Facebook. In an interesting development, he was caught by a policeman who became his friend on Facebook and use to trace his account activity to Mainz - a city […]
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Beacon concerns, like News Feed concerns of a year ago, will fade

This week there has been a lot of hoopla in the press regarding the privacy implications of Facebook’s new Beacon program.
Beacon is a way for businesses to let their customers “share the actions they take on your website with their Facebook friends.” In other words, it’s a new way for Facebook users to log and […]

Facebook Launches Newsfeed Rating System

Facebook has just launched their newsfeed rating system. Valleywag had previously leaked the rating system screenshots but it has just gone live. The system is pretty basic. If you like a newsfeed entry you can give it a thumbs up. If you don’t like it, you click the “X” to remove it from your feed […]

Time management applications

I sometimes think that if I’d ever been taught to manage my time, I might not have dropped out of college the first time around. Luckily, by my second try I had pretty much taught myself.
Considering all the college kids out there who use Facebook, there should be some strong time management applications available. Here […]

Opt-Out Feature in Facebook

Michael Arrington created much fuss about nothing yesterday for the constant shuffle in "Is" on Facebook. Wonder why he was crying about it? Not being overly critical of him though, there was another feature update. It is related to the ill-famous Facebook Beacon.
Facebook Beacon is quite irritating in certain aspects. Especially when it comes […]
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