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Facebook and Friendfeed

By admin ⋅ August 11, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Plenty to be said on this. Smart move in my book, converting Facebook from a closed environment to incredibly strong social aggregator.
The key, of course, is that Facebook has access to our online community. Large, relevant and ready made. Social aggregators have, to date, struggled for one key reason. They’re completely worthless unless all your [...]

Firefox – Facebook’s real challenger

By admin ⋅ May 6, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

This is interesting. The convergence between social network site and browser looks innevitable. Facebook is aware the the whole ‘closed walled’ approach wont cut it in the future, and that they will have to fit within (and not disturb) a user’s normal web behaviour.
Hence, integration within a web browser. And then you have Firefox, with [...]

Comprehensive Facebook stats

By admin ⋅ April 20, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Facebook Demographic Trends
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Good, honest, basic stats on facebook usage globally. Thanks O’Reilly Radar

Pushing the limits of crowd sourcing – video games and animation

By admin ⋅ March 5, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

From around the world, almost 20,000 people chipped in on a five-minute animated film that features a love story between a guitar and a violin. You could have been one of them. All you needed was a Facebook account and an itch for computer-generated animation.
And if animation isn’t your thing, why not go and help [...]