"In the long run, people will trust Twitter more than they do Facebook."
- Nick Bilton, New York Times.
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Facebook is getting its own app store for all devices, all platforms, all prices | VentureBeat
Facebook moves into app discovery and distribution.
Spotify Chronicals Music History with Facebook Timeline
A great use of Timeline that’s appropriate and takes listeners through an exploration of their product. Perfect.
The Facebook Phone is Real, and Its Name is Buffy | All Things D
Sounds like they’re going to take the route Amazon followed in forking Android for the Fire.
*EDIT: I had forgotten about MG’s coverage on TechCrunch about this already. He’s saying this is basically recycled news, with the exception of the code name and HTC partnership.
Flickr Is Dead | Thomas Hawk
Can’t say I disagree with Thomas. Unless Flickr makes some adjustments to recognize how pictures are being taken and shared of late, they’re done. The iPhone 4 is their most popular camera, and has been for ages. Apps like Instagram offer a more interesting community and ways of manipulating pictures while Google+ and Facebook (sorta - don’t like the latest theatre view, but their upcoming mobile photo sharing app looks promising) offer a better sharing and storage experience. I can’t think of any meaningful improvement out of Flick in the past 5 years.
"One of the things you learn as a college president is that if an undergraduate is wearing a tie and jacket on Thursday afternoon at three o’clock, there are two possibilities. One is that they’re looking for a job and have an interview; the other is that they are an a**hole. This was the latter case."
- Wow. I didn’t realize I loved Larry Summers until I read this quote. Fantastic. Larry Summers calls Winklevoss twins ‘A**holes’ - Jul. 20, 2011
Project Spartan: Facebook’s Hush-Hush Plan To Take On Apple On Their Own Turf: iOS
I can’t imagine Apple hasn’t considered how this could play out. My my first reaction is that it may not matter. Just because Facebook will offer web-based apps with Facebook ID fully integrated doesn’t make it a threat, or anything more than a niche play, to the App Store. There’s no reason they can’t coexist and equally benefit the iOS platform.
A neat visualization of your Facebook experience and connections by Intel. Although it was nice to look at, ultimately I wondered what the point was. It didn’t do much to make think of Intel, beyond some familiar creative (i.e. the robotic arms).
Sleazy PR Firm Throws Scummy Facebook Under The Sordid Bus
TechCrunch likes to take any opportunity to throw a jab at public relations agencies - so excused the headline.
For Burson-Marsteller this is an unfortunate case of not projecting potential outcomes of this project’s methodology and being prepared for it. They should have known that scandal was likely in the event that their activities were uncovered given the lack of transparency.
Having been on that side of the fence, I can only imagine how miserable a few people at BM are today. Not fun.
It’s also worth considering all the ammo there is against Facebook. It’s not like they aren’t similar exposed on these and a broad array of other issues.
Facebook Open Sources its Servers and Data Centers: Cloud Computing News «
Facebook shares it’s server and data centre design in a way that you probably won’t understand or care. The IT geeks in your life will, however.
Given an audience that won’t give too much thought to whether they might actually use a feature like this or not, I get why it makes sense to promote a feature like OnStar reading recent Facebook status updates. The did demonstrate the only use case I can ever seen this being useful for. But… seriously… is this something that anybody would care about or use more than once? I’m going to say no…
Given an audience that won’t give too much thought to whether they might actually use a feature like this or not, I get why it makes sense to promote a feature like OnStar reading recent Facebook status updates. The did demonstrate the only use case I can ever seen this being useful for. But… seriously… is this something that anybody would care about or use more than once? I’m going to say no…
"The Toronto Star’s page value is $13,457, exactly its potential."
- From a Toronto Star article about Virtue’s “Social Page Evaluator” that measures the value of a Facebook page. The statement and value goes to show how (not) credible this is, but should also have anybody at the Star who believes that number trembling in fear - if the Star believes its potential caps at $13k, the newspaper industry really is drying. What is your Facebook page worth? - thestar.com
Facebook videos go HTML5, now iPhone and iPad compatible - MacDailyNews
It’ll be nice not to have to jump out to YouTube anymore - the steady decline of flash continues…
Facebook Spreads Itself Across the Web - Bits Blog - NYTimes.com
Facebook is extending itself to be the plug and play social component to all websites, starting with a few select partners. Obviously, privacy will be a big issue here - as usual with Facebook. It will be interesting to see what functionality website owners can pick and choose from the offering - some of the functionality (i.e. see what friends also visited this site) may be unsavory for some users.
Facebook plans to add 'place' feature - CNN.com
Looking forward to hearing more about the use of ‘place’ over ‘location.’ After reading a bit here it may be a better approach for social purposes (considering: privacy, safety, comfort, etc…).
