Posts Tagged ‘Facebook’
Techcrunch recently announced the results of their annual tech awards – ‘The Crunchies’, with some exciting and original new names being recognised among the more established older companies and services. Once more Facebook has done extremely well, despite some controversy over its continued classification as a ’start-up’ (it has won the award for ‘best overall start-up’ for three years running…)
Anyway click over to the original Techcrunch post for a link to watch the full ceremony live – I won’t spoil the other results for you here, apart from one which I think deserves a special mention: Spotify (which won the ‘best international’ award). A fantastic service of which I’m a big fan, and perhaps even more crucially – possibly the thing…
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I’ve recently been looking over the current stats for the way the global social networking pie is shared out right now (in terms of users – not other standards like monetization potential for example). Once again we see Facebook and Myspace ahead in countries like the US, UK, Canada etc with Bebo and Orkut also having considerable presence in other territories. I can’t help but notice also that while these social networks have enjoyed (or endured) fairly significant changes in their positioning in the past couple of years – one remains always roughly fixed in its modest but steadily growing position – LinkedIn.
Yes the social network – that kind of isn’t – at least in the sense that maybe we should…
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I’ve just read a new report by Dr. Andre Oboler (a web 2.0 and hate speech specialist) available online concerning Facebook’s recent responses (and lack of them) to groups which promote anti-semitism and Holocaust denial on its social network. We first covered the issue on this blog back in July, and sadly the situation since then has changed little since then. Though some of the groups have now been removed, it is disheartening that this came only after media attention forced the hand of Facebook – who had been aware of such groups for months.
Dr Oboler’s report covers in detail Facebook’s history and initial responses to being made aware of such groups, and its treatment of the issue during May 2009…
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Thus far i’ve largely been amused by Facebook’s attempts to censor offensive content on its network – in particular the banning of images of women breastfeeding was perhaps the most oddly conservative of all, and indeed the social network’s over-enthusiasm in this task has occasionally been quite a source of comedy for many others too in the blogosphere.
On a more serious note however, all sorts of downright disturbing images have also been successfully removed, and truth be told it’s hard to critique Facebook for being lax over image censorship (if anything they are perhaps at times slightly over-zealous, though i perfectly agree that it’s better to err on the side of caution). It’s precisely for this reason that I’m quite…
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We’ve become used to all the standard ways of comparing the relative values and rankings of social networks, and the markers for monitoring their growth. Unique users has always been the most key factor, and useful as it was – it was also rather limited and actually sometimes told us very little. The data always felt slightly one-dimensional, as if there were more pieces to the jigsaw that we weren’t seeing – like a football score that only tells you one team’s result and not the others.
Which is why I’m delighted to read some fascinating posts over at Techcrunch about a new way of modelling the true value of social networks. The new system is based on a key principle –…
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