Posts Tagged with ‘facebook’

Facebook has been the social network of the year with its rapid growth everywhere. And while for Facebook (and for many other ad-supported web services) the US market is what rules the world in terms of where they make money, Europe now looks like it has been the place where Facebook enjoyed totally incredible growth [...]

You may have already read on the Wall Street Journal and in some other sources that Facebook’s Chief Financial Officer is leaving the rapidly-growing social network. Of course it is no wonder that everyone now wants to know how good Facebook is doing in terms of money. And while Facebook is claiming they are doing [...]

Yesterday there was an interesting announcement from the team over at Facebook about a new option allowing users to make certain portions of their Facebook profiles available to everyone. Until now the privacy options for various types of information you populate your Facebook profile with included Only Friends, Friends of Friends, and My Networks and [...]

It is often striking to me to watch the majority of internet companies (both startups and established market leaders) only focusing on the US users for all their business operations. It is more than disappointing to see this approach when you are an international user yourself - and a user who wants to be a [...]

Today comScore has shared results of a new survey with the world, this time about social networking trends in Europe with a particular focus on France. The figures from the survey are rather interesting as the web measurement company discovers that three quarters (74.6%) of all European internet users are exposed to social networks.
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Earlier this week I have already talked here about quite an interesting move from Facebook: offering scheduling gifts to be sent as many as 7 days in advance under wraps. And while this sounded romantic as the receiver was supposed to have two surprises instead of just one it was quite obvious that Facebook had [...]

I just love the days when the web analytics service Compete makes its data for the previous month available to all of us as we get the chance to look into statistics of various websites we like to track for some reason and see how they are doing compared to their competitors. Since Compete is [...]

Virtual gifts are definitely becoming a huge trend for many social networks these days - and a huge trend that can actually generate amazing revenues for the networks. Facebook is one of the pioneers of the trend and one of the networks that enjoys huge success with virtual gifts.
In February, 2007 the social network introduced [...]

It proves that Facebook is quickly becoming the place to turn to whenever you want to achieve something important and change the world to a certain extent. One of the interesting examples is about students from Montgomery County Public Schools in Maryland using Facebook to find support for their important cause: making the Inaguration Day [...]