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Facebook: Behind the Scenes

The Daily Beast did a month-long experiment to discover the inner workings of Facebook – how it determines who shows up on your News Feed, what can influence how often people show up and so on.  Some of the findings: A bias against newcomers “Most Recent” doesn’t tell the whole story. Links are favored over […]

Posted 02 November 2010 § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Facebook is Down!

What does it tell you that my first instinct was to post this link on Facebook? Whether you like Facebook or not (I’m ambivalent), the Internet sure feels broken without Facebook Like buttons and Share This links everywhere!

Posted 23 September 2010 § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

The Face of Facebook – Mark Zuckerberg Profile in The New Yorker

A well-written profile of Facebook’s founder and CEO.   I’m not a huge fan of the guy but that’s mostly because he refused to add me as a friend when I first joined Facebook. 🙁 (via MetaFilter)

Posted 15 September 2010 § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Facebook Adding Exciting New Services While Google Is Closing Them

Maybe it’s just a quirk of timing but it seems like Facebook’s had a couple big launch announcements recently while Google’s most noticeable activity is dropping their heavily hyped Wave product. Here’s the comparison: Facebook Facebook’s big news yesterday was that they made it official they were launching, Facebook Places, a service to give them […]

Posted 19 August 2010 § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Blogging as A Facebook Status Update

Jason is sick.

Posted 17 August 2010 § Technology ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

More Facebook Fallout

[Edit: A sample of the growing Facebook backlash from across the web.] I recently wrote about the backlash against Facebook for the increased loosening of their privacy controls.  Between that, their arbitrary movement of your profile information to suit their needs, security holes in their chat and Instant Personalization program and the increased whispers about […]

Posted 14 May 2010 § Internet § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Facebook Doesn't Care About You

Facebook has a long history of implementing features that are counter to what users want and/or treating their users like shit with a general lack of respect.  Lately, Facebook has been giving an even stronger impression than ever before (if that's even possible) that their early appeal as the one social web site which gave […]

Posted 06 May 2010 § Internet § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Politics & Facebook Friends Revisited

I wrote a lot about what the number of Facebook friends may or may not mean in a political race during the NDP leadership campaign last year.  I'm not sure what if anything these same numbers might mean for a more local race like the one that's currently happening in Regina – Coronation Park.  But […]

Posted 01 April 2010 § Main Page § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) °

Friday Fun Link – Conversation with an Anonymous Facebook Employee (January 15, 2010)

Very revealing conversation with lots of info about the behind-the-scenes workings of Facebook as well as the site's future plans.  Obviously, it's important to keep in mind this is an anonymous interview on the Internet.  So who knows how true it is?  AllofFacebook.com, a site dedicated to all things Facebook has an analysis but won't […]

Posted 16 January 2010 § FridayFunLink § Internet § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Facebook's Great Betrayal

This article entitled “Facebook's Great Betrayal” is a bit out-dated now but a few weeks ago, users logging in to Facebook were asked to choose some new privacy settings – many of them ominously set to “Everyone”.  A lot of the success of Facebook versus other social networking sites was that it gave users such […]

Posted 27 December 2009 § Internet § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: