It seems they’ll never learn. Yesterday, this pop-up introduced itself to Facebook users across the globe, and it wasn’t to the warmest of welcomes, either. Out of the millions of users who see this pop-up, roughly half can be expected to actually follow through with the indoctrination into new privacy features, while the rest will [...]

Yes, they’ve finally done it. After months of talk about incorporating the mounds of real-time data to which Google has access, they’re finally piping it all into their own search results. The sources they listed are some pretty big names: Facebook, Twitter, FriendFeed, MySpace, and Jaiku, among others — and that’s not counting the major [...]

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg posted An Open Letter from Facebook Founder Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook’s official blog. Aside from the hilariously redundant title of the post, there’s not too much fun stuff in this one — but it does put some final affirmation to the long-run rumors.
The main point of the release:
The plan we’ve come [...]

In case that sounds a bit harsh, it’s because it is, but after reading yesterday’s release from the Oxford University Press, it’s warranted. The release announced Oxford’s coveted Word of the Year to be none other than the now ubiquitous Unfriend, which in and of itself is no matter of contention.
The problem is how they’ve [...]

Responsible reporting starts with what you choose to report, and turning something as toxic as Facebook games into high-traffic news is beyond ridiculous. Slow days happen, but there are better things to talk about than this garbage.

When Facebook Lite launched just under two weeks ago, my immediate reaction was a sigh of relief, followed by the question “how long will it take them to trash up this one, too?” When I asked that question, I fully expected to find out by Christmas. I thought wrong.

Well, imminent for the general population… I’m already having convulsions. Today, in a blog post, Facebook announced they’ve reached the 300 million user landmark. It was less than six months ago that the company hit 200 million. They’ve also gone from struggling to monetize to “succeeding at building Facebook in a sustainable way.” In fact, [...]

[UPDATE]: Facebook’s “tagging” feature went live today (14Sep09), using the @mention format, and it seems to be nothing more than an autocomplete feature for mentioning people on your friends list. Once you choose a name, it simply substitutes the @name you’ve typed for the person’s full name, which is also a hyperlink to their profile. [...]

Early this morning, Twitter dropped off the face of the Internet for a couple of hours. When I noticed the distinct lack of chatter I went to see if anyone was still awake on Facebook. That wasn’t loading either. I started wondering if maybe both had gone down simultaneously, since I still had data streaming [...]

Treating social-networking sites or services such as Facebook and Twitter as nothing more than tools may get your clients a modest amount of pageviews, but it’s really only making you the telemarketers of the Internet.
That’s it. Nothing more.