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... We have pretty much reached a point where #Facebook enjoys 50 percent market penetration of all 2 billion Internet users in the world. Historically, Facebook usage plateaus whenever it reaches 50 percent of a country's online population. With so few countries left to conquer, I believe it's likely the social network has finally reached the limit of its usefulness as a platform for expression.
Outside its well-trimmed gates, the pseudonymous Internet will continue to grow and thrive...
Whether Facebook reinvents itself or The Next Big Thing takes over, I suspect we're only seeing the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the social Web.
(though they did it in a sneaky way)As usual.
... the ability to decide which email address to show or hide on a user's profile predates Timeline. Users have been able to do this since as early as 2010. What's new is the confusing second setting we discussed above. Further, we've heard from users that this setting has been live for them since last Monday, if not earlier.
Facebook is most often criticized for revealing too much of user's information, not for hiding it. But when it comes to email, things get complicated for the social network. In 2010, Facebook and Google were involved in a public dispute over the issue of how email contacts should be used. Facebook would not allow users to export their friends' email addresses, but it helped Gmail users manually download their Gmail contacts and then re-upload them to the social network. Facebook also allowed users to import their friends' e-mail addresses when they were using Microsoft or Yahoo services.
Facebook's new unified e-mail and its implementation is causing unwanted changes to users' address books; worse, the changes have gone unnoticed by users and vital communication is being lost...LOLZ!
We now also see that the interception of people's e-mail communication with Facebook's new change is deeply problematic and potentially grave...
This is bad news for users that have expectations around e-mail communication by changing their e-mail addresses, intercepting and redirecting their communication elsewhere...
When two people don’t have a female friend in common, there are more broken relationships (54.5 percent) than persistent ones. For triads involving two women (one of which is the mutual friend), the unfriend rate drops down to 33.8 percent.Why Do People Unfriend Others On Facebook?
The United Kingdom university studied more than 34,000 relationships on Facebook, examining why they dissolved...
Contact synchronization on devices is performed through an API. For most devices, we've verified that the API is working correctly and pulling the primary email address associated with the users' Facebook account. However, for people on certain devices, a bug meant that the device was pulling the last email address added to the account rather than the primary email address, resulting in @facebook.com addresses being pulled. We are in the process of fixing this issue and it will be resolved soon. After that, those specific devices should pull the correct addresses.BTW, notice how long it took 'em to come up with the BS excuse of "uh oh, whoopsie, it's an API bug."
Facebook EdgeRank, as you would imagine, is much like Google’s PageRank – in showing the most relevant content to the end-user.However, the articles below are still interesting simply because I sincerely hope other socnets won't endeavor to FAIL quite as epically as FB has with EdgeRank:
... Our source says Facebook's next $10 billion business (which would be its first) takes place in the top-right quadrant. In this business, Facebook will sell ad inventory on third-party sites and target it using its own data AND third-party data.
Our source calls this business "FaceSense" because it will compete with Google's ad network, Ad Sense. Ad Sense does about $2.5 billion in revenue per quarter; hence our source's $10 billion figure.
... we were right in that respect, as even the analyst who released the report, admits it was total hype. It was aimed at selling the stock, and it successfully accomplished that goal, with no regard to the investors who lost millions in the nearly worthless shares. But as we have stated before….Always be cautious of optimistic analystsYaaay!
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“I don’t know how I feel about Facebook asking me to upload a copy of my government issued ID, especially the part about “we’ll permanently delete your documents. When have they ever permanently deleted anything?”
A new technique could help companies like Facebook make money from your data without putting it at risk....BTW, guess which company will try to use this if it proves feasible? (hint: I bet it won't be FB)
too.Larry Page led Google Inc.in its early days, but he and co-founder Sergey Brin, both in their late 20s, were persuaded to bring in technology industry veteran Eric Schmidt to provide "adult supervision" in 2001 when the search company was still privately held.P.S. Moar lulz! + EPIC lulz! = Serious Business.
If we build a house made of glass, and put a CCTV camera in every room, monitoring my every movement for the world to see, does it really make everything okay if I'm free to tell you my name is Bob?