Active Users in Millions
(Registered users who have visited the site in a given month)
Zuckerberg's creation
… consists of 47,000 college, high school, employee, and regional networks.
… handles 600 million searches ...READ MORE›
When Mark Zuckerberg showed up in Palo Alto three years ago, he had no car, no house, and no job. Today, he's at the helm of a smokin'-hot social-networking site, Facebook, and turning down billion-dollar offers. Can this kid be for real?READ MORE›
When Mark Zuckerberg showed up in Palo Alto three years ago, he had no car, no house, and no job. Today, he's at the helm of a smokin'-hot social-networking site, Facebook, and turning down billion-dollar offers. Can this kid be for real?READ MORE›
At 32, Max Levchin may feel like the granddaddy of Web 2.0--"I felt too old for the Internet the first time around," he jokes--but four of the applications his company has created for Facebook have consistently ranked in the top ...READ MORE›
Last year, Newsweek predicted that 2007 would be "the year of the widget." This July, developers gathered in New York for Widgetcon, a conference devoted exclusively to widgets. Whether or not Widgetcon fulfilled Newsweek's prediction, it signaled that widgets were more than a passing fad on the Web.READ MORE›
When the scientific study hit the wires recently establishing that obesity spreads virally across large "social networks," I figured that science was simply appropriating a popular cyberspace term.
After all, if obesity could spread ...READ MORE›
Well, now, here’s a can ‘o worms for you. A retail worker in Britain had a bad day at work and felt frustrated with his bosses. To vent his frustration, he posted an angry entry about his feelings on Facebook, the MySpace-like ...READ MORE›
If my friends hear me utter the word Facebook one more time they are going to excommunicate me from their buddy lists.
I'm adding to the noise only because Facebook demands the immediate attention of all 30 million of us members. ...READ MORE›
Facebook launched Facebook Pages today. This makes it easier for businesses, musicians, etc to represent themselves to the Facebook population, and makes it easier for the population to affiliate themselves with or review their ...READ MORE›
I wander through life empowering experts to deal with chronic problems such as product safety, cancer, poverty and Internet privacy. Like taxes and dry cleaning, I often don't want to know the nitty gritty of how things get ...READ MORE›
A customer wrote to me today, very excited about this new 'Facebook thing' - he wanted to start a Facebook profile for our Bike Friday community.
"It'll be as big as Google!" he enthused.
I thanked him for being a champ – who ...READ MORE›
Ever wonder what those millions of other people joining social networks plan to do once they're there?
Beyond throwing sheep on Facebook or becoming a fan of hip-hop stars on MySpace, many people join social networks to better ...READ MORE›
When Rupert Murdoch's News Corp bought Intermix Media, owner of Myspace.com, for $580 million last year the acquisition signaled the rebirth of the Internet boom, including its overpriced valuations.
Take for instance the robust ...READ MORE›
News Corp.'s 2005 purchase of MySpace for $580 million and Google's recent acquisition of YouTube for $1.76 billion have illustrated that established companies are willing to invest big bucks in social media. So much money is being ...READ MORE›
At some point a company or service gets so big that people make fun of it. (The public, not just family members.) Awareness in the form of pan-cultural parody is probably a good thing; it certainly marks a tipping point of relevance ...READ MORE›
As we all mourn the loss of 32 Virginia Tech students, it should come as no surprise that Americans--and particularly college students--have congregated on Facebook to grieve together. Many memorial groups have made Facebook pages, ...READ MORE›
In the era of social networks, many media outlets have focused on issues of privacy and it is not uncommon to hear older adults aghast at what kids or younger adults like myself make available as public information. Kids are putting ...READ MORE›
Facebook has closed a group devoted to Arabs who are LGBT because a coalition of Arab governments threatened to ban the site if they didn't, according to Boing Boing. While in the legal right, it feels like Facebook did the wrong ...READ MORE›
That's a very strong title, I know. But it's not mine, and it's not as bad as it sounds. It was written by Paul Scrivens, an FC Expert blogger, designer, and one of the founders of blogging community 9rules, on his own blog ...READ MORE›
Facebook is about to send IPO speculation into overdrive again with its latest business move. This time they are not turning away suitors. Instead, they've made their first acquisition - the company announced ten minutes ago that ...READ MORE›
At the risk of adding to the morass of Facebook-related news coverage floating around the Web, it’s worth mentioning that Facebook announced this week that it is pairing with two prominent VC firms to establish fbFund, a $10 ...READ MORE›
Whoa, I'm a little concerned right now. Today I received an e-mail that a friend created a profile for me on a new social networking service. The new service is Yahoo's attempt at entering the MySpace and Facebook space, although it ...READ MORE›
"School" and "cool" rhyme, but, sadly, you probably won't find the two together in any sentence uttered by today's students. With growing adoptions of the latest technology in the classroom, however, educators are trying hard to ...READ MORE›
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