Archive for March, 2008

How to Customize Your Privacy Settings

So apparently I am completely clueless with these new privacy settings. I’m guessing a number of other people are screwing it up as well. as such, Teresa Valdez Klein over at Web Community Forum has posted a video tutorial explaining how to update the new settings. Take a look below, hopefully this […]

Vimeo’s Upcoming Facebook Application

For those of you that are fans of the Vimeo player, you’ll be happy to know that they are almost done with a new Facebook application. Here’s a video highlighting some of the new features. You can also check out their roadmap page for more screenshots.
For those of you that are fans of […]

What is “Social Search”? SMX Interview

Santa Clara, CA - 2008
Allfacebook interviewed Facebook’s Aditya Agarwal at Search Marketing Expo’s SMX West. Aditya is Facebook’s Director of Search Engineering, responsible for search strategy, search product management and overseeing the engineering team responsible for new product development related to search.
AF: Please explain “social search” for the layman reader…
Aditya: Social search […]

Facebook’s New Privacy Features: Easy or Complicated?

Naomi Gleit has publicly posted about the new privacy settings that launched this morning on Facebook. I briefly wrote about some of the changes taking place last night as well as this morning. I began modifying the settings this morning and there is no way that I’m going to get it done anytime […]

Facebook SocialAds Now Opt-Out

If you hadn’t noticed already, once in a while your friends’ photos have been showing up on ads promoting applications and fan pages. Many were turned off by those ads complaining that making money off of our profiles is crossing the line. Well this morning Facebook’s new privacy settings went live and with […]

Facebook Takes the Lead

According to recent comscore statistics, social networks worldwide have experienced continued growth. That growth has translated into a substantial increase in traffic for Facebook who it appears has succeeded in surpassing MySpace to become the largest global social network on the web. Peter Kafka has pointed out the new statistics and provides the […]

Facebook Launching Privacy Controls and Instant Messaging

Caroline McCarthy has posted about new Facebook privacy features that are being rolled out later tonight or tomorrow morning as well as initial screenshots of the rumored instant messaging service. The new privacy features will enable users to have granular settings on a per-friend basis. When users confirm a pending friend request they […]

Facebook Accounts for 22% of Web 2.0 Funding

Last year $1.34 billion was invested in so called “Web 2.0 deals.” Of that, Facebook accounted for 22 percent. The second largest investment was for Ning, Marc Andreessen’s startup that has generated a lot of buzz and has been experiencing continued growth. While it was a record year for Web 2.0, growth […]

Can Facebook Save the Economy?

I gotta be honest, over the past few days it has become extremely difficult to find good content for this blog. No matter where I look all I hear is more news about the Bear Sterns/JP Morgan deal, a crumbling dollar and everything else that could possibly go wrong economically appears in the news […]

Vimeo’s Upcoming Facebook Application

For those of you that are fans of the Vimeo player, you’ll be happy to know that they are almost done with a new Facebook application. Here’s a video highlighting some of the new features. You can also check out their roadmap page for more screenshots.
For those of you that are fans of […]

What is “Social Search”? SMX Interview

Santa Clara, CA - 2008
Allfacebook interviewed Facebook’s Aditya Agarwal at Search Marketing Expo’s SMX West. Aditya is Facebook’s Director of Search Engineering, responsible for search strategy, search product management and overseeing the engineering team responsible for new product development related to search.
AF: Please explain “social search” for the layman reader…
Aditya: Social search […]

Facebook’s New Privacy Features: Easy or Complicated?

Naomi Gleit has publicly posted about the new privacy settings that launched this morning on Facebook. I briefly wrote about some of the changes taking place last night as well as this morning. I began modifying the settings this morning and there is no way that I’m going to get it done anytime […]

Facebook SocialAds Now Opt-Out

If you hadn’t noticed already, once in a while your friends’ photos have been showing up on ads promoting applications and fan pages. Many were turned off by those ads complaining that making money off of our profiles is crossing the line. Well this morning Facebook’s new privacy settings went live and with […]

I Want More From My Facebook News Feed

I always have four tabs open in FireFox: Facebook, Google Reader, TechMeme and Google News.
Tabbed browsing is great. It beats multiple windows, but it would be much better if I could have all of that information all on one page.
Since Facebook is the only one of the four that has an “open” platform, it […]

Facebook as the New Business Card

I have been using Facebook more and more of late as a Rolodex; a way to collect and stay in touch with contacts.
Facebook has provided me such great value, that I recently started to promote connecting with me on my email signature.
As I pointed out in my last post, Facebook is great for contact management […]