This article popped up on Wired a few days ago and has elicited a number of spirited discussions amongst my colleagues and friends.
The great wall of Facebook: The Social Network’s Plan to Dominate the Internet – and Keep Google Out.
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/magazine/17-07/ff_facebookwall
FACEBOOK’S 4-Step Plan for Online Domination
Mark Zuckerberg has never thought of his company as a [...]
Even accounting for duplicate and inactive account logins, collectively, there are 750,000,000+ registered potential users (that’s 750 million for those of you that got dazed by the zero’s) that are spending time online frittering away their lives looking at what other people do and commenting about questions or circumstances that affect each of us. Or [...]
Michael Arrington of Tech Crunch fame noted on his blog a couple of days ago the fact that My Space’s growth is stagnating compared to its arch rival Facebook .
Getting too it – why is My Space in decline?
Simply put – Usability. It sucks. I never got onto My Space because almost every time I [...]
[Thanks to Kate M for this one, which landed on my Facebook page]
The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Instructions: Look at the list and put an ‘x’ after those you have read – even those you’ve read more than once!
Make [...]
Kiwi judge follows Australian Facebook precedent It seems our progressive Australian Court System isn’t the only one in the world wading into the virtual reality of Facebook and its 170 million plus inhabitants with virtual writ in virtual hand. A New Zealand court – the High Court no less - also deciding it was possible [...]
A number of articles published in today’s ‘The Age’ online have equally disturbed and intrigued me on a number of levels.
The first was the identification of the arsonist in the Victorian Bush Fires in the article ‘Vigilantes publish alleged arsonist’s image online‘ , and the subsequent Flash speed with which their identify has been disclosed [...]
How the Face of Facebook has change – Happy 5th Birthday!
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/album.php?aid=87231&id=20531316728&ref=share
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