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LIKE is the wrong function to base the social web on
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
Posted in algorithm, behavior, facebook, social networks, social science
Tagged facebook, like, social
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Facebook limited by ad budgets
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
Posted in advertising, business strategy, facebook
Tagged advertising, facebook, the long view, what matters
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Facebook Infrastructure – Number of Servers @Facebook and more
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
Facebook Addiction?
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
Need perspective in this time of change?
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
Posted in facebook, life, social networks, software
Tagged bucket, bucket list, change, facebook, facebook apps, perspective, social apps, things to do before you die
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Social Networking and Behavioral Targeting Response
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
Edge.org Social Network Analysis Conversation
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
Posted in analysis of behavior, data mining, economics, health care, information theory, social networks
Tagged christakis, edge.org, facebook, goldstein, myspace, obesity, social network
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ABCnews & Facebook Debates: A Rare Convergence in Media That Works!
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
Posted in politics, vertical media
Tagged abc, debate, facebook, new hampshire, politics, president, youtube
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FB Connect isn’t About Users, It’s About Getting Traffic
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 →