Facebook Open Graph: A New Feature, But No Revolution

If Facebook’s basing its future on the “Open Graph” it’s a good bet only if the real system’s much more than the demo presented by Facebook today. Look. The reason Facebook works is because it follows “Abraham’s Law Of Social Media”: People Are Voyeurs. People want to know about other people, who they are, what … Read more

TechCrunch Traffic Up 36 Percent Due To Facebook IPO News

Don’t look now, but TechCrunch – the blog founded by Michael Arrington, who in 2010 then sold it to the Tim Armstrong and Arriana Huffington-ran AOL, and the same Huffington who Michael recently called a “touchy psychopath” for her then-heavy-handed role at the tech blog, chasing off Arrington, and bloggers Sarah Lacy, Paul Carr, and … Read more

Facebook Stock Rebounds As Twitterers Say RIP Facebook

Either some Twitter users are blind or stupid, but whatever the case, the Twitter Trend “RIP Facebook” which is hot today (ranked number 7 as of this writing) and would seem to point to the demise of the giant Social Network website, is in point of fact totally wrong. As of this writing Facebook Stock … Read more

Facebook Stock Drop Will Force New Attack On Google’s Turf

Facebook stock has dropped from a high of $42.05 on the first day of trading to Tuesday’s new closing low of $28.80, losing $35 billion in value in the process, dropping from $115.227 billion to $78.912 billion. While observers point to a new round of trading on the options market, and others speculate that the … Read more

Facebook Must Fix The Faulty Friending Algorithm

Facebook’s friend algorithm is poorly designed, and to a degree that this blogger finds consistently annoying. Really, it’s not just the algorithm that tells you that you’re “friending” people you don’t know, when you do know them, it’s the very website which prompts you to ‘friend’ the same people the system then says you don’t … Read more

Facebook Buys Instagram: Implications For San Francisco And The Bay Area

Yesterday, Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg put out a blog post announcing that his company spent $1 billion to acquire Instagram, the popular smartphone-based photo-sharing service. Moreover, the organization made even more famous in the movie The Social Network, gave the small, young, San Francisco-based organization a combination of cash and stock. This has … Read more

Is Facebook Worth $100 Billion Before IPO? Yes

The hot tech news is that Facebook will hold and Initial Public Offering (IPO) in April of 2012, and that the giant social network started by Mark Zuckerberg is valued at $100 billion. The question of the day is “Is Facebook actually worth $100 billion?” The conversation on CNBC’s First Monday is that is is, … Read more

Google+ Is New Entity To Facebook – Eric Edge

Facebook’s Manager of Global Communications Eric Edge took time to talk with this blogger at DigitalWest, the first West Coast-based conference for the trade magazine Advertising Age. In the video, Edge gave kind of a quick overview of where Facebook is today, saying that the social network is “in a really good place.” “The value … Read more