Facebook Adds New Advertisement Model?

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 now as well. Also, it looks like [...]

Facebook… Is it Up, Down, or Somewhere In Between?

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 else having issues?
I also got an email about [...]

Facebook Adds Profile Pictures to Quick Search

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 since I can now see Group and Fan [...]

New Facebook Profile Design Is Pretty Fan’Tab’ulous.

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 profiles. Everything is now tab-centric which will [...]

Open Letter to Google

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?) I even have an orkut profile…despite the [...]

A Plain-English Guide to the Facebook Terms of Use

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 inconvenience. -ac
Over the past few days there has [...]

Facebook Gets Serious About Politics

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 it would catch on beyond the die-hard political [...]

The Great Google Strikes Again

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 data on the internet by allowing multi-site access [...]

Welcome to Your New Facebook Array?

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 you use…similar to when you view a profile [...]

Social Networking in the Collegiate Market: Part II (The Interaction Camps)

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 the rise of online social networking it becomes [...]