Category Archives: Facebook

Facebook is Growing Fast in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East

With Facebook recently passing 175 million users, I decided to update my analysis of its user base. The weekly growth in number of users has remained steady, with the last 5 weeks being exceptionally strong: Facebook added over 25 million users since early February. The share of U.S. users inched up slightly from 30% to 31%. The company added users… Continue reading

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Facebook in 2010: no longer a walled garden

A lot of what I’ve been working on the past two years has been built on the assumption that the model that social networks use today will fundamentally change. Social networks have largely been built on the premise of being walled gardens in such a way that users can’t communicate or share content or friends across networks; put simply this is what keeps a Facebook user from being able to send a message to a MySpace user. This is the same model that destroyed AOL, CompuServe and Prodigy’s ISP businesses when normal people chose the Internet itself versus their thoughtfully curated walled gardens. Continue reading

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Friday Procrastination: Link Love

What Cassie has been reading this week. Continue reading

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Livre 2.0 sur Facebook

Mais si vous préférez Facebook, c’est par iciChoisissez Facebook ou Ning, je me donne un mois pour mesurer l’audience, en toute démocratie participative, cela va de soit ! Continue reading

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The Coming Readers’ Economy and Data Portability

This is a guest post by Mark Bertils. At the end of last year one event signaled a huge shift in how the book publishing industry will do business. It’s… Continue reading

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Facebook en España

El uso de Facebook aumenta considerablemente entre el público español, y sólo un poco menos en Hispanoamérica.

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Facebook Growth Regions and Gender Split

Since we began tracking Facebook demographics in late May, weekly growth has held steady, usually in the low single-digits on a percentage basis. More importantly, it’s fair to say that the company has successfully expanded overseas. With close to 128M users, the share of U.S. users is down to around 30% from 35% in late May: Over the last three… Continue reading

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Why I Love Twitter

If you care what I think, you know that Twitter is just about the best way to learn what I’m paying attention to. I pass along tidbits of O’Reilly news, interesting reading from mailing lists and blogs I follow, and of course, tidbits from the twitterers I’m following. These are all the things I could never find time to put… Continue reading

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Friday Procrastination: Link Love

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Why Isn’t Facebook Making More Money? (Hint: Advertiser Value and User Value Are Not Aligned)

I happened to visit Facebook’s Business Solutions page, and was struck by how, at least on the surface, these advertising formats seem like exactly the kind of innovation that should be helping Facebook achieve Goolge-style revenue — which is of course what Facebook’s $15 billion valuation assumes will happen.

And yet with 100 MILLION users, Facebook’s [...] Continue reading

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