Posts Tagged ‘facebook’

April 7, 2008

Is Twitter the Next __________ ?

Love it, hate it or have no idea what the hell it is, Twitter seems to definitely (kinda) finally making some ripples outside the early-adopter society.  That means that everyone must now ask whether or not Twitter will become the next ubiquitous web “thing” like Google, Facebook or email (ed. note: not actually convinced Facebook [...]

March 22, 2008

Dear CBS Sports, Welcome to Fail

The lovely folks over at TechCrunch have assembled a nice gallery of comments left on the CBSSports NCAA Facebook application that has not quite performed up to snuff.  With a whole bunch of problems being reported, users around the country are sounding off.
As TC points out:
“But it is an even more serious issue for CBS [...]

February 28, 2008

Social Networking Sites Becoming Networks

WSJ has a look at the growing trend among social networking sites like Bebo and MySpace using original video content as a way to grow and expand their user base:
“The growing popularity of YouTube poses a particular competitive threat to social-networking sites. Roughly a quarter of users who view videos on MySpace also watch shows [...]

February 23, 2008

Facebook Obituaries Being Written

Sure, it could just be a swipe at a giant, but Scoble is no slouch himself so when he asks if Facebook is doomed, it’s probably worth taking note.
Among his issues:
“As much as I like Mark Zuckerberg, I can not recommend Facebook to anyone until they fix this problem. There’s ABSOLUTELY NO WAY someone’s account [...]

February 13, 2008

NYT and Facebook users force change - fast!

So, two days ago there was an article in the New York Times that looked at just how difficult it was to delete your Facebook account.
There was plenty of buzz about this on the webs for a while.
Now, a mere two days later comes this article in the New York Times in which they report:
“Aiming [...]

February 12, 2008

Walking the Branded Content Thin Line - MTV, MySpace et. al.

Nice little piece on a site about the PSFK conference that looks at two pieces in BusinessWeek (here, here) exploring, first, MTV’s marketing plans in the new media world and then examining the backlash on MySpace and other social sites from users tired of being bombarded with ads or being drawn into what first appears [...]