This morning I posted about Mike Arrington’s article suggesting Facebook is almost in dire straits. At the time I suggested that things may not really be that bad and based on most reports, they aren’t. This afternoon Facebook contacted Venturebeat with a comment on the story:
As a matter of policy, we don’t comment […]
Doug Beaver of Facebook posted an article earlier this afternoon explaining the massive amount of storage required to handle the user halloween photos. Each Halloween results in a whopping 20 percent increase of photo usage. What does that mean? Well, last year 124 million photos were uploaded over Halloween. This time […]
Thirteen Virgin Atlantic crew members have been fired after insulting passengers on the Facebook fan page for the airline. According to the BBC, the employees were calling passengers “chavs”. What is a chav exactly? I had no idea until I looked it up. According to Wikipedia:
Chav, or Charv/Charva, is a mainly […]
Sometime last weekend it appears that Facebook upgraded the encoding of their video service from FLV files to H.264 with AAC for audio. So what does this mean? Well in simple terms Facebook now has better quality video. For those not up to date on the latest video specifications (I wasn’t when […]
According to a comScore report published yesterday that shows Facebook’s global traffic continuing to surge past MySpace. While MySpace continues to attract more traffic domestically, that gap is closing rapidly. Currently there is no competing social network which has obtained the type of reach that Facebook has and currently there are no signs […]
Last week there was some buzz about Oregon Trail being acquired by SpeedDate and replacing it with their own application. It looks like that acquisition was only first in a series of acquisitions to come. Last night, users of “Who’s Online”, received the following message:
This email was sent by Who’s Online. You can […]
As more companies engage with consumers on Facebook and other forms of social media, opportunities for those interested in spreading misinformation or disparaging comments will inevitably increase. But how companies engage with and respond to these situations has just as much if not more impact on brand equity than the initial attacks themselves.
Last week, Virgin […]
Mike Arrington is reporting that Facebook has devoted zero resources to building an application for Android. Why exactly? Well much of it has to do with the bad blood between Google and Facebook sparked when Facebook banned Google’s Friend Connect earlier this year. Looks like things are not so pretty.
Other reasons for […]
The Gap is partnering with RockYou for its new “Vote For ___” campaign, allowing Facebook users to send content discovered on Gap.com to their Facebook friends’ profile pages using RockYou’s recently acquired Pieces of Flair application. Gap content can also be found by going directly to the Pieces of Flair app.
The campaign nicely takes advantage […]
This guy dumped Facebook for Twitter. I’m not sure it’s exactly a substitute but the video is short and entertaining.
Side note: The past few posts have all been relationship oriented for some reason. Hopefully I’ll have some news to post in the next few hours!
This guy dumped Facebook for Twitter. I’m not […]
Over the past few days there has been a lot of buzz about a man who killed his wife after seeing that his wife switched their relationship status to “single”. According to Paul Cheston, the man “drank alcohol and took cocaine before driving 15 miles to the family home to attack wife Emma as […]
This was originally posted on the Social Times. We have reposted the full article below.
LivingSocial, the company know for their suite of social discovery applications made popular on Facebook, has released an iPhone application which was available tonight. We previously wrote about the company when they raised $5 million from Steve Case and […]
This afternoon I got in a conversation with someone about the logistics of Facebook relationships. Recently I’ve met a variety of individuals that each have different policies on when they make a relationship official on Facebook and whether or not they ever do. Ultimately relationships are one of the most complicated things and […]
This morning I was thinking about some features that would actually make the events application on Facebook more useful. Unfortunately though, there are significant limits to what you can access on Facebook events. I took a look at the developer wiki and for instance, the Events.getMembers method has some significant restrictions:
However if you […]
When speaking at the Facebook developer conference today in Berlin, Scott Rafer declared that Facebook platform dead. He posted statistics including one that I posted that suggests Facebook widgets are dead. Lookery’s own statistics from Quantcast suggest that their publisher traffic has been almost halved since the new site design was released. […]