Posts Tagged with ‘facebook’

Facebook platform for third-party applications is rightfully considered to be the most open one for third-party developers to host their applications on platforms offered by the largest social networks. And it is no surprising as anyone could easily develop an application for just about anything based on Facebook API and see incredible viral growth for [...]

Of course the usual race of the two largest social networks in the world - Facebook and MySpace - is always a fascinating thing to watch. While Facebook is already bigger than MySpace worldwide, it still seems (or seemed - depending on the metrics you use) to be a little behind MySpace in one particularly [...]

A new study released today by AT&T proves that social networking at the workplace actually happens to increase efficiency of employees instead of distracting them as we usually think about it - depending on the tools used and the purposes. The study has been carried out for AT&T by Dynamic Markets in five European countries [...]

In the February of last year Facebook launched its marketplace for virtual gifts where anyone could purchase a gift for $1 or several at a time with a small discount and send such gifts to friends on Facebook. This has been fun but there were obvious limitations given the fixed $1 price and free gifts [...]

A pretty interesting piece of news from comScore has just landed in my inbox. Today the web measuring company released the data on the top online properties in the UK in September and the results are partly predictable and partly rather unexpected.
The predictable part is about financial websites growing rapidly due to the world economic [...]

Of course it is quite understandable that everyone has to do some personal staff now and then when in the office - like answer an urgent phone call or have a quick chat on Skype with a friend to decide where to meet in the evening. I believe that it is even worse with IT [...]

It is always interesting to see how any social network or social media website reveals its nature and the interests of its users by what is generally popular among those users. For example, it is obvious that Digg users love sensational titles and lengthy lists while Reddit people seem to be more interested in lengthy [...]

Sometimes I have a feeling that the entire web industry is full of hip and cool kids - no matter how old they are and how expensive their toys like iPhone and Apple MacBook Air are. Today’s example is the Talk Like A Pirate day that seems to be absolutely everywhere.
I woke up today to [...]

Yesterday at the Web 2.0 Expo in New York Tim O’Reilly, the person who coined the term “web 2.0″ (and the organizer of the conference itself) made a very interesting statement during his keynote. He decided to finally tell out loud what many of us have been thinking for a while and had our concerns [...]