Tagged: social

Facebook’s Best/Worst Year Ever: A Full Report on FB 2012

This new years, all of the thousands of employees of Facebook are trying to determine what happened in 2012, which was probably their best and worst year in their 10 year history. Let’s take a look back, and see what happened. IPO Facebook goes public. Good or bad? Debatable. While the IPO is usually a good sign of permanence and value to most companies,...

Poke Vs Snapchat- Which is Better?

Snapchat and Poke, the new service competition. I’ve been using Snapchat for over a half a year now (our original review here), so when Facebook released Poke, a similar service, I wasn’t sure it was even worth trying to get into, but what I’ve discovered may have changed my mind. Here’s the truth on which is better from a user of both. Both Poke and...

Why Facebook Should Hire Teenage Girls

Facebook often seems to be playing catch-up. They released Poke, a video-communication app similar to Snapchat just days ago, and they payed nearly a billion dollars for popular Photo-Sharing app instagram. What do these apps have in common besides the use of the camera? A large portion of their original users were teenage girls. Their biggest partner, Zynga wasted hundreds of millions to buy...

Mashable Incorporates Micro-sharing- Are we losing the patience to read a tweet?

With 1 billion people on Facebook, and hundreds of millions more on other social networks, sharing has become the most important focus for futuristic web design, and the new technology, called “microcontent” utilized in the new Mashable.com design released today is one awesome major example of what that focus has produced. Here’s an example of microcontent in use. Say you’re reading a list of...

Mark Zuckerberg- The Nerdy Kid With Glasses?

I have no problems with nerds with glasses (all I’m missing is the glasses) but until this photo I had no idea that Mark Zuckerberg had the look down. Zuckerberg currently rocks the wardrobe of hoodies and sweatpants, but this photo posted by a family member on facebook shows it wasn’t always that way. Sorry this isn’t a longer post, but it’s my birthday....