Google may have this social networking thing down, after all – although it was just formally announced on Friday, a Google News app for Facebook already has almost 2,300 daily active users.
Google Ads on Facebook (Via Developers)
It’s no secret: Facebook’s platform might be the social networking development of the year.
Google scared of Facebook? Puh-leeze
I have to say that until now I thought Josh Quittner was a pretty smart guy.
He was at Business 2.0 magazine for quite awhile, and was editor when the whole shebang went down in flames not too long ago, and was an early convert to the blogs-as-media idea after Om Malik left. But the piece he just wrote for Fortune about how Facebook “has Google running scared” is pathetic.
Boosting Your Social Capital with Facebook
I am sure that over the course of the last few days most of you folks out there may have bumped into one article or another around the subject of the usefulness, or not, from Facebook.
Facebook Stepping Up AntiPerv Efforts
Three weeks ago, the New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo announced he was subpoenaing Facebook to learn how the social networking site dealt with users who were reported for sexually soliciting underage users. The notice came after New York conducted an undercover operation posing as teenagers on the site and reporting the illicit advances that adults made on their profiles.
Facebook Out to Get LinkedIn
Facebook is all over the news today. I know, I know, just another day at the office.
Why Facebook Sucks & Why it Doesn’t
Why Facebook sucks (Scripting News) Dave Winer has a post out called "Why Facebook Sucks." Dave says that Facebook basically sucks because like many social networks it’s a silo. Lots of input but not so easy output.
From Dave:
Facebook: Winer brings the hate
In a recent post — entitled “Why Facebook sucks” — Dave Winer slams the social network for being too closed, and for “getting in between me and my address book,” as he puts it.
Google Versus Facebook
Some Google employees are leaving Google for social site Facebook. Well, “some” isn’t a trend, but a couple of the remarks of those that left offer insightful perspectives.
Facebook: The Awkward Teenager
Kara Swisher, who writes for All Things D, had a couple of posts on Facebook recently that got me thinking again about the social-networking site. In the first one, Kara said that using Facebook often seems like “children’s hour,” because of all the goofy applications and widgets that your friends and acquaintances are constantly adding (and trying to get you to add as well).