For those of you optimizing your News Feed distribution, Facebook just pushed an update tonight that changes the way application feed items are displayed to users without the app.
Essentially, feed items that link to pages that require adding the app to view will now get much lower Feed Rank than feed items that link to […]
Watchmouse released a report earlier today listing the overall performance of the top social networks on the web. Among the top ranked sites were Orkut, MeetUp, Tagged.com, Jaiku and Pownce. Unfortunately Facebook ranked as the absolute worst performance among all social networks. I’m not quite sure what standards were used for this test but this […]
In response to Nick’s article on crappy apps, I have to say that while I agree that their are a ton of crappy apps, I don’t think it’s a problem. Personally my entire interest in this whole phenomenon comes from my long-standing belief in the productive power of openness — open source, open access, […]
This morning I spent a few minutes looking through the “Recently Popular” applications on Facebook and I have to say that I’m not impressed. Click on “Most Activity” in the application directory and you will be even more disappointed. Today, I am proud to present those applications that show up on the first page of […]
Here’s a quick look at some important Facebook updates that are expected to launch in 1Q 08:
1) Friend Lists Privacy Controls
A few weeks ago, Facebook took the first step toward enabling more efficient friend management with the release of Friend Lists. However, as was noted at the time, the killer feature of Friend Lists — […]
Charlie Ayers probably took the most lucrative Executive Chef position ever when he joined a little company called Google in 1999. Six years and millions of dollars in vested stock options later, Charlie retired from Google to start work on his own organic restaurant chain called “Calafia,” run an “innovative corporate well-being” consulting practice, and […]
Mike Arrington has the story about a massive prank that has taken place within the French media. The prank involves Arash Derambarsh, a 28 year old French citizen that won the Facebook presidency via the ePresident application on Facebook. What’s funny is that he claimed that he could now secretly message the close to hundred […]
I found my old favorite tic-tac-toe killer, the dot game, on Facebook. I used to play this in elementary school on paper when I was bored in class, and now students can play online in class when they’re bored! What a time we live in!
The dot game is a simple two-player game in […]
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Mike Arrington has posted about another Facebook IM service that is currently offered for the P.C. I went ahead and installed it and it immediately crashed. The idea of a Facebook IM service is a great one though and it’s nothing new. FriendVox has been offering Facebook IM services for a while now. Both applications […]
The Toronto Star just published an article focusing on a police injunction and a gag order. The sum of the article is that traditional media had been issued a gag order, a legal decree silencing the media for a short period of time based on investigations integrity, revolving around the death of a young girl […]
Paul Buchheit wrote an interesting post on his blog about Facebook being a hypocrite. Paul poignantly points out that when we all signed up for Facebook we let an automated service troll our email accounts to obtain email account information.
Facebook has the right to ban whomever they want for whatever reason they want; but […]
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There is a good deal of buzz on the net today about ’secret-crush’ and how it is really a viral program that installs the much loved ZANGO! Our own Jonathan Kleiman wrote about it before the rest of the web even cared. By the way , great piece Jonathan.
Does this […]
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With the Iowa caucuses and the first Democratic and Republican primaries just around the corner, I thought it was time we take a look at the American political landscape according to statistics on the Facebook user population. While not everyone in America is on Facebook (just over 8% of the adult population is, including almost […]