Just logged into facebook to discover a new sort of advertisement in my right sidebar where you typically see the Sponsored gift of the day.
It seems that facebook may be trying to diversify its advertising model a bit from typical display and flyer ads by including video [...]
At first I thought it was our sometimes-screwy internet connection at work, but I’m getting reports from friends and colleagues all over the US that Facebook is either not loading, loading super slow or not allowing them to navigate away from their homepage in the site. Anyone [...]
Over the past few months, it seems Facebook has been making lots of minor changes to its Quick Search box in the top left of the site to make it easier to find your friends more quickly. So far I have loved the changes, especially [...]
Yeah, I’m probably going to get made fun of for that title, but it just came do me and you can’t hold comedy like that inside yourself.
Anyway, as you might know, facebook just created a Page for users to come check out the potential new designs for [...]
Open Letter to Google,
Hey Google, I’m a big fan. I’ve been a loyal Googler since 2002 or so and I use just about every Google product I can fit into my life. (Except Google Video: I thought that is why you bought YouTube…why have 2 sites?) [...]
NOTE: Due to a server crash in mid 2008, the screenshots associated with this post are no longer available, however the text still does a good job of covering the Terms of Service. I will be writing an updated post in the near future. Sorry for the [...]
A little over a month ago, it was announced that Facebook and ABC News were teaming up to deliver ABC political content to facebook users via the US Politics application and I was pretty skeptical that the partnership would deliver any tangible benefit to users or that [...]
Over the past few days, the internet has been abuzz with the news about Google’s upcoming foray (or perhaps more accurately: retry) into the world of social networking. It has promised to build 2-way APIs for multiple networks that will change the way users transfer their social [...]
I just logged into facebook and saw as my homepage (the ‘home’ page in facebook, not my browser’s homepage) was loading that the page title has changed. It has always said ‘Facebook | Home’ at the top of the browser or tab, depending on what browser [...]
A few weeks ago I started on a series of posts looking at different aspects of social networking tools in the collegiate world…and then school happened so I’ve been a bit behind, but I’m back to pick up the pace…
As you read blogs, papers, comments, etc about [...]