Social networking site Facebook is about to make things interesting. The company is expected to announce this week that it will open up its site to developers and Web services companies who want to connect on a more intimate basis with Facebook users.
Facebook’s Popularity Climbs In Canada
While writing this article, I searched for “Facebook” on the American Google News site. That’s all – just “Facebook.” Yet four of the first six results came from Canada, and this illustrates a new trend: our neighbors to the north are becoming big fans of the social networking site.
Facebook vs. Linked In
Valleywag today compares Facebook vs. Linked In. I’ve been thinking about the same thing lately. I have hundreds of emails waiting to be answered (I answered a bunch yesterday, but it just caused MORE email to come back in so now I’m behind again — thankfully I’ll be offline in a plane headed to a BEA event in Atlanta so I’ll have lots of time to answer emails).
Should Twitter be Scared of Facebook?
The New York Times has a piece about Twitter, including a nice pic of Biz Stone and Jack Dorsey of Obvious Corp. looking pretty pleased with themselves — as they should, considering Twitter’s traffic has apparently tripled in the past month or two since SXSW helped it become the new black. Jason Pontin of MIT’s Technology Review does a nice job of looking at the phenomenon, without trashing it as totally frivolous and irritating.
Yahoo Lost Face Losing Facebook
When Facebook reputedly rejected Yahoo’s billion-dollar buyout offer, Yahoo retreated to the sidelines. The missed opportunity may be one that did not really exist.
Facebook Not Impressing Some Advertisers
Valleywag doesn’t elaborate on the media buyers complaining that advertising on Facebook just isn’t worth it. But if this is the frigid, penetrating tip of an iceberg, all eyes will soon be on Mark Zuckerberg, watching to see how he’s going to fix things.
Zuckerberg, in the meantime, will look back with yearning at the billion-dollar acquisition offers.
Jobster Web 2.0’s Itself, Joins Up With Facebook
Jobster.com took a giant leap into Web 2.0 this week, first announcing that employers can post jobs on the site for free on a new more LinkedIn-style platform, and second confirming that the company will be the exclusively working with social networking site Facebook.
“We spent the last twelve months designing the new Jobster to meet the needs and expectations of the digital generation," said Jobster CEO, Jason Goldberg.
Join Facebook, Become A CIA Operative
Social networking has become the hip new platform for many professionals such as marketers, musicians, writers, tech evangelists, and a multitude of others. It seems that now the U.S. Government has taken notice of social networks and their recruitment potential.
Be Careful with Facebook
Facebook is a great service – my 17-year-old daughter and all her friends use it (I have an account too), and so does my cousin who is at McGill University in Montreal, where she engages in the typical sort of debauchery expected of second-year college students, and then posts pictures of said debauchery on her site for all her friends to see.
Facebook’s New Price: $8 Billion?
Well, it is called Facebook, a name that invites a certain amount of narcissism, or at least some inflated self-worth. Yahoo probably didn’t dream that an offer as high as $1.62 billion would be rejected. But Yahoo probably didn’t expect to hear the metallic hubris pinging out a tune of $8 billion, either.