Erick Schonfeld of TechCrunch is liveblogging Facebook’s announcement as we speak I type this. The first fifteen minutes were filled with soundbites from Zuckerberg about the social graph, how cool and popular Facebook is, the history of advertising and how revolutionary this announcement is. Just moments ago, Zuckerberg began on the actual announcement:
T-Minus 1: Facebook’s Announcement Tomorrow
With all the big announcements
Mark Cuban Cites Trust As Facebook Edge
Real people make the treasure trove of information on Facebook the real draw for developing on its platform, which Mark Cuban believes gives it an edge over Google’s OpenSocial conglomeration.
Facebook Founder Prediction on Google
At CTIA Wireless IT recently, facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz was on stage and left us with an interesting message as he closed his keynote session.
Facebook Could Still Be Interested In OpenSocial
When Google’s OpenSocial was considered a collection of social networking outsiders, the smart money seemed to favor its competitors, Facebook and MySpace. But now that MySpace has partnered with OpenSocial, we’re left to wonder whether Facebook will join, as well.
Facebook Too Swift To Judge Blogger’s Alter Ego
"Jon Swift," a political blogger writing under an assumed name, was booted off of Facebook for using a pseudonym. But a little melodrama goes a long way in the blogosphere, far enough to rally a small angry mob outside the walls of Facebook.
OpenSocial’s First Task: Easy Facebook Import
Unless Google can make it smoother than a bucket of AstroGlide to get all of a person’s Facebook contacts over to its OpenSocial platform, they could find audience-building an uphill battle.
Will Facebook Get “Friendstered”?
Anyone remember Friendster? It was an early entrant into the social networking scene. If they had done their work right they SHOULD have been a much bigger player than they are now.
Why aren’t they?
Facebook Rumors: SocialAds, Liars & Snooping
Just one week until the engraved-invitation-event (oh, if only I were one of the cool kids!) and Facebook rumors are flying at only about the same rate as usual. Not so good for Facebook: many of the stories aren’t so positive. Is the media darling falling on hard times?
Facebook Advertising
Much of the reporting of Microft’s acquisition of a piece of Facebook has questioned the ultimate value of the social network.
(Microsoft’s investment puts the total value of Facebook at about $15 billion.) With advertising as the only significant revenue channel, many are wondering if people networking on sites like MySpace and Facebook are paying any attention to the ads.