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Facebook: A social networking site founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg. It initially targeted Harvard students, but was later opened to other universities and then high schools. In 2006,...; Full Facebook Definition >>

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Marc Andreessen, past and present: Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Netscape and co-author of Mosaic, sits down with John Battelle, founder and chairman of Federated Media publishing at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco. Andreessen talks about his current social-networking site Ning, and the impact of Facebook apps and Google’s OpenSocial.; Tags: Marc Andreessen, Ning, OpenSocial, Facebook, Browser, Google, Social Networks, Web 2.0 Expo; Videos 2008-04-24
Facebook's spam machine: I want to premise this post by saying that, of all the social networking sites, Facebook is probably my favorite. I like its clean and functional user interface, and in particular, the -- once controversial -- 'mini feed' which aggregates you and your friends' Facebook activity. The site's explosive growth...; Tags: Social Networks, Facebook; Blog posts 2007-07-30
Facebook's OS ambitions: In a very entertaining and pertinent post, Dave McClure says that Facebook isn't the new AOL as Jason Kottke has suggested but in fact can be compared to Microsoft's Visual Basic VB. McClure's point is that Facebook's Platform -- like VB did for the Windows platform -- has significantly lowered...; Tags: Social Networks, Facebook; Blog posts 2007-07-20
Poll: is Facebook Platform good for the web?: When Facebook first announced its new 'Platform' whereby third-party companies could built applications and set-up shop within the social networking site, many pronounced its 'openness' as a good thing, since it gives developers access to the site's millions of users. And whilst access to all of those users is something...; Tags: Social Networks, Facebook; Blog posts 2007-07-18
Should you trust Facebook with your users?: Inside Facebook has an interesting post detailing the affect a Facebook bug or partial outage can have on a Facebook application's user numbers. When there are kinks in the Facebook Platform, to users it can often look like a problem with the third-party app itself. That's because Facebook applications have...; Tags: Social Networks, MySpace, Facebook; Blog posts 2007-07-16

Facebook visitors up 89%: We probably didn't need comScore's latest findings to tell us that Facebook has seen massive growth since it first opened up the site beyond registered college students, but it does help to have the data to prove it. According to a comScore's data, recording activity on the social networking site...; Tags: Social Networks, Facebook; Blog posts 2007-07-06
The Facebook effect: MySpace to open up: The Financial Times is reporting that MySpace may soon open itself up to third-party developers -- in a similar strategy to Facebook -- which would see outside companies able to "plug" their web services into the number one social networking site. This is of course in direct response to the...; Tags: Social Networks, MySpace, Facebook; Blog posts 2007-06-29
Research: Myspace and Facebook are different class: In my recent post 'Facebook and MySpace are like chalk â€˜n' cheese', I argued that the two sites have contrasting user-bases, and cater for different needs.... essentially I see the two giants generally catering for the needs of different demographics â€” hence their distinct differences in terms of layout and...; Tags: Social Networks, MySpace, Facebook; Blog posts 2007-06-25
Facebook and MySpace are like chalk 'n' cheese: With talk of Rupert Murdock attempting to 'offload' MySpace to Yahoo in return for a 25% stake in the company, there's inevitably been another round of discussion in the tech media comparing Facebook to MySpace.Â Not only is Facebook growing at a faster rate than MySpace -- though as TechCrunch...; Tags: Social Networks, MySpace, Facebook; Blog posts 2007-06-21
MySpace to befriend eBay?: MySpace has hinted at a potential partnership with eBay, in a bid to offer e-commerce services to its millions of users. In an article in the Telegraph newspaper, MySpace founder Chris DeWolfe is quoted as saying:"If you're on your site and you have a line of T-shirts you have designed...; Tags: Facebook, Google, MySpace, Social Networks; Blog posts 2007-06-18
iTunes sets up shop in Bebo; CNN/YouTube sponsor presidential debate; Google Video search; social network privacy tested: The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the weekâ€¦ iTunes sets up shop in Bebo. Apple has signed a deal with social network, Bebo, which sees the company selling digital music to the site's 8.8m users in the...; Tags: Apple, Bebo, Facebook, Google, MySpace, Search, Social Networks, The Social Web weekly; Blog posts 2007-06-15
LinkedIn vs Facebook: room for both?: This morning I woke up and as usual checked my email while sipping my first coffee of the day. Nothing unusual there. Then I noticed I'd received a LinkedIn 'connection' request (LinkedIn users don't have friends, they have 'connections'). Wow I thought. I haven't had one of these in while....; Tags: Social Networks, LinkedIn, Facebook; Blog posts 2007-06-12
Official: Last.fm comes to Facebook: When Facebook's new platform launched last month, to allow third parties to partner with the social networking site, who in return would provide the necessary hooks for those companies to port their applications and set-up-shop inside of the site, the omission of the popular music social network Last.fm was puzzling....; Tags: Social Networks, Music, Facebook; Blog posts 2007-06-01
More thoughts on Facebook's new platform: Earlier this week I reported on Facebook's plans to further open up and to turn the social network into a platform. Third parties would be able to partner with Facebook, who in return would provide the necessary hooks for those companies to port their applications, and set-up-shop inside of the...; Tags: Facebook, MySpace, Social Networks, Widgets; Blog posts 2007-05-25
Facebook wants to become a platform: The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Facebook will soon embark on a new strategy that will see outside companies being allowed to set-up-shop on the social network so that they can leverage "Facebook users' networks of online friends". Facebook already has a public API (although Marc Canter and others...; Tags: Social Networks, Facebook; Blog posts 2007-05-21
Facebook adds Twitter-like functionality: Facebook has added a number of enhancements to its status functionality which include features which are strikingly similar to the micro-blogging service, Twitter.According to the official blog, Facebook now: displays a users friends three most recent updates on the home pagehas a dedicated page to display all your friends updates...; Tags: Twitter, Social Networks, Facebook; Blog posts 2007-04-22
Google Maps goes social; Copyright infringement on YouTube exaggerated? Washingtonpost.com to embrace UGC; Facebook Diaries goes live: The social web weekly: a quick-fire roundup of some of the news, announcements and conversations that have occurred throughout the week… Google Maps goes social. Google Maps has launched a new feature called MyMaps which the company says "makes it quick and easy to create your own custom Google Maps...; Tags: YouTube, The Social Web weekly, Google, Facebook, Video Sharing, Social Networks; Blog posts 2007-04-06
LinkSViewer.com: follow the money around Silicon Valley: The New York Times recently argued that, when it comes to creating innovative technology, geography matters -- and that Silicon Valley is still the place to be for anybody with start-up ambitions.Give birth to an information-technology idea in Silicon Valley and the chances of success seem vastly higher than when...; Tags: Facebook, Friendster, LinkedIn, Social Networks; Blog posts 2007-02-16
Barack Obama launches social network: Barack Obama, the Democrat presidential hopeful, has launched his own social network which hes calling MyBarackObama.com. The site invites supporters to create a profile, blog their campaign experiences, plan and attend events, find other supporters, and help raise funds for the campaign. Obama already has an official presence of Facebook...; Tags: Video Sharing, YouTube, Social Networks, MySpace, Facebook, social networking, Barack Obama; Blog posts 2007-02-10
MySpace launches movie "mashup": MySpace to Facebook: anything you can do, we can do better. With Facebook announcing plans to create a User-Generated television series called "Facebook Diaries", MySpace UK is being far more ambitious. In partnership with Vertigo Films and Film4, MySpace has launched "MyMovie Mashup", a UK only competition to find the...; Tags: Video Sharing, Social Networks, MySpace, Facebook; Blog posts 2007-02-08