Posts Tagged with ‘facebook’

It looks like on the lazy news days during this holiday season many of the mainstream publications have decided that it would be a good idea to discuss the trends in social networking and the peculiarities of behavior of many of us - those who are heavily dependent on our social networks for personal and [...]

Have you seen people on Facebook with 5,000 friends (it is the maximum number you can have on Facebook)? I personally have seen quite a number of such profiles - usually they are real-life celebrities or web celebrities who get dozens (maybe more) friend requests per day and add people back to look friendly and [...]

Of course there can be different approaches to determining best something in a group of similar items. So we can choose different criteria to determine which Facebook applications are the best: number of users, number of active users, users voting or whatever. But I think when an application’s developers are given a huge amount of [...]

Reading the blogosphere coverage of both Google and Facebook launching their own data portability programs - Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect - I realized one thing: there is at least one type of services that can be seriously damaged by general availability of both programs to website owners - those working in the blog [...]

If there is one thing I am ashamed of about the internet industry in Russia, it is that we seem to have way too many clones of various projects that are already successful in the US and internationally and almost no original ideas at all. Quite a number of the popular social networks and web [...]

Quite surprisingly Google and Facebook decided to announce general availability of their data portability programs - Google Friend Connect and Facebook Connect - on the very same day. This means that both Google and Facebook users will now be able to use their identities with Google or Facebook on other sites that support one of [...]

Do you remember the Facebook group “I bet I can find 1,000,000 people who dislike George Bush!“? The group easily attracted more than a million people with Facebook members joining willingly and spreading the group’s popularity virally to all their friends. It all looked like an innocent way to express one’s feelings about the president [...]

There’s an amazing story today reported by Kara Swisher about Twitter rejecting a $500 million acquisition offer from Facebook three weeks ago. Kara refers to some unnamed sources both in Twitter and in Facebook that claim that the talks actually existed - with no one knowing about them through all this time.
Facebook reportedly initiated the [...]

I think everyone has been thinking for a while now about how the entire internet industry is flawed and how it will face even more serious problems in the future unless something is changed in terms of how businesses make money here. Recently every time a new startup sends me a pitch about their new [...]