Archive for the “Facebook” category
Facebook’s Billion Dollar Evaluation Hinges On Apathy. *Our* Apathy.
by Tony Hung on November 25, 2007
Looks like the A-lister brigade is out in force against the opt-in lunacy that is Facebook Beacon. Or, so it would seem, anyway, with Doc Searls, Dave Winer, and Jason Calacanis (and a few others) making some good ol’ impassioned (…)
Facebook Privacy Follies Continue
by Tony Hung on November 18, 2007
As a bit of a follow up to a post I did some weeks ago about controlling the kind of information that gets back to Facebook via Facebook Beacon, it turns out that, in a similar vein, it may in (…)
Will Social Ads Spark A Facebook Revolt?
by Tony Hung on November 6, 2007
So its fairly breaking news, but Marc Zuckerberg has just outlined Facebook’s best attempt at monetization, which involves three separate entities — allowing advertisers to build their own pages, facilitating the engagement between Facebook fans and those advertisers (and the (…)
The Biggest Non-Facebook Story Everyone’s Missing
by Tony Hung on November 2, 2007
It seems like over the past few days, the entire technosphere has gotten them worked up into a righteous frothy debate over the OpenSocial API, wringing their hands with what it will mean to Facebook, Google, and all parts in (…)
Would An OpenSocial API “Matter” If Everyone Who Mattered Was On Facebook?
by Tony Hung on November 2, 2007
Just a theoretical question to lob at you before the weekend: in all the clamour around an OpenSocial API, and how the blogosphere is polarizing it (hyping it) to be a Facebook vs. Google and Superfriends cage-match, when would an (…)
Facebook Saves Woman From Rabies
by Tony Hung on September 22, 2007
In Toronto, it seems like almost everyone’s on Facebook. Good thing too, as when some local public health officials were looking for a certain woman who had contact with a bat who had rabies, they *didn’t* turn to other venerable (…)
Google Readying Facebook Killer?
by Tony Hung on September 21, 2007
Even though the Google top secret conference had its members sign NDAs, that hasn’t stopped at least three of them from blabbing to Mike “Mr. Access” Arrington about it. Details of course at TechCrunch, but it sounds like Google is (…)