As of today, my sister has set off to work in New York. Although I will miss her dearly, the wonders of the internet let me keep in touch to the point of being overwhelming. We all know about IM, Skype, Facebook etc, however I recently discovered the wonders of Twitter, and how it can [...]
Facebook Music Launches One feature MySpace had over Facebook was the tools for musicians. MySpace really started as the social network to connect fans with bands. Now Facebook has finally introduced this feature set which could be the final nail in the coffin for MySpace. A professional music offering in partnership with record labels is [...]
This site is in private beta, so you can’t sign up for it just yet, but the idea behind Totspot is to create a private space online for your little bundle of joy and update it as you go with their progress in the first few years – first time crawling, first solid foods etc. [...]
Sorry this issue is a little late. Facebook Cracks Down on Apps But Opens Arms to Flash Facebook has finally given you the option to permanently block an application and stop receiving vampire, texas hold-em, etc, etc requests continuously. This is a great news for users, not so great for app developers who rely almost [...]
Facebook Clones in Foreign Language Markets I have previously suggested that Facebook will need to be aware of the possibility of losing out to local competitors if they don’t naturalise the site for foreign languages quickly enough. Well, it seems they have a bit of a fight on their hands for Latin America. Sonico has [...]
We have seen a few briefs in the marketplace for clients wanting to build their own virtual worlds. I have avoided these types of projects to date, as I just think it is crazy to try to go down this road. The numbers around Second Life are widely overstated, with them still averaging about a [...]
This is a very interesting campaign executed by Dell on Facebook using the Graffiti Wall application. This was to help promote Dell’s ReGeneration campaign. The competition involved entrants drawing “what green means to you” with graffiti. Here are the stats: 7,302 entries 150 finalists Over 1 million votes! 6 category winners The best overall winner [...]
Kung Hei Fat Choi everyone (Happy Chinese New Year). Facebook Finances Leaked! Doh! Zuckerberg didn’t put a PIN on their internal conference call in number. 2007 Revenues: $150 million 2008 Revenues: $300 to $350 million (projected) 2007 Headcount: 450 2008 Headcount: 1,000 (projected) 2008 Capital Expenditures: $200 million (i.e., servers) 2008 EBITDA: $50 million 2008 [...]
Here is this week’s round-up of Facebook news. Robert Scoble Interviews Mark Zuckerberg – Founder of Facebook Celebrity blogger Robert Scoble bumped into (literally) Mark Zuckerberg at Davos (Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum). After having breakfast with him and President Musharraf of Pakistan (seriously), he had a very in-depth conversation with Zuckerberg. One [...]
A quieter week for Facebook news. Is it possible the media’s interest is waning? Facebook use costing firms US$12 billion a year InfoSecurity Europe look at how much Facebook usage at work really costs businesses when you add it up. The companies they surveyed estimated that 15-20% of their Internet usage was taken up by [...]