Good article about how Facebook has come to replace previous ways that we tried to both conform and compete with our social peers.
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Posted 09 November 2010
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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 […]
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Posted 02 November 2010
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OuiBox (warning: music autoplays) is not only an online word processor and a way to connect to various social media sites but it claims to have the ability to help you fill in facts as you write! We’re not there yet but the fact that this was posted to Reddit with a subject line of […]
I’m pretty excited about our staff conference on Friday (although the last minute details and fire fighting gave me a bastard of a headache today so that I ended up coming home and crashing for two hours.) But I think we’ve got a great line-up – including having not one but two sessions by the […]
Last year, folks online showed the growing power of social media by making a fifteen year old, anti-authority Rage Against the Machine song the UK #1 Christmas Number One. This year, another Internet-based group, Cage Against the Machine, has sprung up with an even better idea for what famous song should be propelled to this […]
I could write headlines for the World Weekly News with a subject line like that! But I did catch this little tidbit in a story about how Facebook is refusing pro-pot advertisments, even as one of the site’s co-founders donated $50 000 to the cause. Stephen Silberstein, the founder of Innovative Interfaces, a company that […]
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!
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Posted 23 September 2010
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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)
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Posted 15 September 2010
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Shea was a bit surprised to see this article show up on Facebook tonight, especially since this random blog post happened to feature a picture of Shea and Pace breastfeeding. Turns out an acquaintance of Shea’s from a mommy board (but who Shea’s never met in person and is someone who likely wouldn’t know what […]
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 […]
