Tag Archives: facebook

LIKE is the wrong function to base the social web on

Posted on April 29, 2010 by

Discussion and idea swapping and socializing is and should be so much more than just liking something. The like function is going to just create more noise. It’s no where near as useful as a bookmark or hyperlinks. Alas like … Continue reading →

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Facebook limited by ad budgets

Posted on April 25, 2010 by

Facebook’s new releases and plans were the talk of the week In the tech industry (by the way, not the only industry that matters!). Probably for good reason. Facebook’s size and growth is very impressive and the service is obviously … Continue reading →

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Facebook Infrastructure – Number of Servers @Facebook and more

Posted on December 20, 2009 by

If been asked many times about the size of Facebook’s infrastructure.  Folks love to get a gauge of how much hardware/bandwidth is required to run high trafficked sites. Here’s a recent report of the set up. Read the details there.  … Continue reading →

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Facebook Addiction?

Posted on April 23, 2009 by

This is genius. Kudos to the editor who thought that one up. I cannot begin to tell you the insight I gained from this.  Can you believe there are people that sit on Facebook all the time? Can you believe … Continue reading →

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Need perspective in this time of change?

Posted on January 17, 2009 by

Check out what I just put out to the world: get some perspective with the social bucket list application, need perspective, on facebook. This is really just a labor of love.  Life’s very short.  I have some 15,000 days left.  … Continue reading →

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FB Connect isn’t About Users, It’s About Getting Traffic

Posted on December 16, 2008 by

All these publishers and platforms aren’t implementing FB Connect to help users, it’s to increase traffic. Techcrunch asserts: People may have IDs for the various blogging platforms or commenting systems, but most don’t identify with them. It is a necessary … Continue reading →

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Social Networks and metaphors du jure…

Posted on April 9, 2008 by

Edge.com Douglas Rushkoff “Social Networks Are Like the Eye” A Talk with Nicholas Christakis I read with great interest – as usual – the Edge article by DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF: “Social Networks are like the Eye” – A Talk with Nicholas … Continue reading →

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Social Networking and Behavioral Targeting Response

Posted on March 23, 2008 by

I received the following from a director of ad operations, Jeremy Jones, in response to yesterday’s post on collective behavior and the other day’s post on vertical media.  His remarks focus on the confusion over social networking advertising (both selling … Continue reading →

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Edge.org Social Network Analysis Conversation

Posted on March 2, 2008 by

Dr. Nicholas A. Christakis has an interesting piece on Edge.org right now.  He’s also done some cool research on a variety of subjects with social networks as the focus. Here I present a critique of his dialog on Edge.org.  I … Continue reading →

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ABCnews & Facebook Debates: A Rare Convergence in Media That Works!

Posted on January 6, 2008 by

37,000 participants on Facebook during the live debates last night. live polling live blogging email direct to campaign advisors immediate reactions raw videos from the event videos from the location The debates were lively and alive.  Interactive and immersive.  Ok, ok, so some of the political banter during … Continue reading →

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