Foursquare is one of the hottest location based social networking startups. It’s synonymous with the often copied “check in”, a feature competing services like Facebook and Yelp have incorporated into their user experience. And while it seems clear that the platform Foursquare has developed can scale to reward, engage, and serve its users and the [...]
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No Comments »With more the 500 million users, there’s a pretty good chance you’re an active Facebook user. By logging into Facebook several times a day, its users are able to follow the activities and musings of those they’ve “friended” via the service. My friends post pictures, videos, websites, and thoughts which are collected and [...]
Posted in Content Delivery, Internet, Social Networking, Technology, Websites Tags: Facebook, Newsfeed, online content, PostPost, Social Networking No Comments »There’s a war brewing. Not involving tanks and planes, but rather a fight for online users. The participants include Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Facebook. The winners will dictate the future of how we communicate with each other, store and access data, and generally live our increasingly online lives. It’s extremely interesting to watch the lines being drawn [...]
Posted in Google, Internet, Social Networking, Websites Tags: Facebook, Google, Mark Zuckerberg, Web 2.0 Summit 1 Comment »In terms of individualized usage of an online service, this is a staggering milestone. Facebook is expected to announce soon that more than 500 million people have signed up for an account its site, despite recent privacy concerns. That is approximately one in every twelve people on the planet (approximately one in four Internet users [...]
