CNET NEWS -- Jan 7 -- Facebook says it has hit the milestone of 150m active users, just over two months after reaching 120m and about four months after reaching 100m. The site hit 140 million in the middle of December. Nearly half of that 150m, Zuckerberg wrote, use Facebook every day. Facebook has made it clear that right now, it's focusing on growth over revenues.
FULL ARTICLE @ CNET NEWS
CNET NEWS -- Jan 4 -- Facebook achieved its highest-ever traffic level, accounting for 2.18% compared with a 1.42% average for Nov, according to Hitwise. That's a 54% increase compared with the Nov average and a 53% increase year over year. FULL ARTICLE @ CNET NEWS
INFORMATIONWEEK -- Dec 24 -- The market for location-based services is
expected to top more than $13 billion in the next five years, and ABI
Research said social networks like Facebook and MySpace could be a
major driver of adoption. The research firm estimates that more than
82m users will be connected to a social network on the go by 2013. FULL ARTICLE @ INFORMATION WEEK
TECH CRUNCH -- Dec 21 -- Ryan Hupfer at HubPages who advertises on both
MySpace and Facebook, compared the two platforms. In a nutshell, he
finds Facebook a much
better experience. When it comes to the results, though, things are
mixed. Ryan's test showed a lower cost per click on MySpace than
Facebook ($.27 v. $.44). But the Facebook clicks were more productive:
a new user cost just $5.11 on Facebook, v. $8.03 on MySpace. FULL ARTICLE @ TECH CRUNCH
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READ WRITE WEB -- Dec 18 -- According to new reports on Inside Facebook, in recent weeks Facebook is growing at a rate
of 600,000 users each day, up from 300,000 to 400,000 users per day
earlier this quarter. The company is also reporting that, as of today,
they have reached 140m active users. FULL ARTICLE @ READ WRITE WEB
CNET NEWS -- Dec 11 -- Don Graham, chairman and
CEO of The Washington Post, will join Facebook's board of
directors in January. FULL ARTICLE @ CNET NEWS
BELFAST TELEGRAPH -- Dec 10 -- Bebo was the most popular web search this
year, while Facebook was the fastest rising search. Nasza klasa, a
polish social networking, was also a fast rising search in Ireland. FULL ARTICLE @ BELFAST TELEGRAPH
TECH CRUNCH -- Dec 5 -- Facebook is making some improvements to its video-sharing service. The quality will be bumped up to 720p, which is technically the low end of HD. Coincidentally, YouTube turned on an HD-quality option on Friday. The key change, though, is that the videos will now be embeddable on other sites. FULL ARTICLE @ TECH CRUNCH
MASHABLE -- Dec 4 -- Facebook Connect
is now open for business, allowing any developer to let users login to
their websites using their Facebook credentials. Additionally, other
key Facebook features, like your friends list, can now be integrated
into third-party applications, which can in turn send data back into
Facebook and the News Feed. FULL ARTICLE @ MASHABLE
PR NEWSWIRE -- Dec 1 -- Emoze, free, mobile, push email service, now allows Symbian users to add
their Facebook messaging in combination with any number of email
messaging systems, to their mobile device. There is
no need to purchase a Smartphone to tap into Facebook
messages on-the-move. Users can simply add Facebook to their emoze
portfolio on any handset. FULL ARTICLE @ MARKET WATCH
LA TIMES -- Nov 25 -- Facebook has struck back against
spammers, winning an $873m judgment against a Canadian man
accused of sending millions of unsolicited messages about drugs and sex. Facebook called the judgment the largest ever under a
federal anti-spam law. MySpace won a $230m default judgment against Sanford
"Spamford" Wallace and a business partner. In June, it got a $6m
settlement from Scott Richter, whose company, Media Breakaway,
allegedly sent unwanted ads to users. FULL ARTICLE @ LA TIMES
TECH CRUNCH -- Nov 23 -- Facebook has been quietly searching for a partner
to take over their year and a half old classified listings application,
and may relaunch as early as the end of December. The obvious
partner is Oodle, which began powering Walmart Classifieds earlier this
year. FULL ARTICLE @ TECH CRUNCH
Mark Brooks: Oodle is doing well by aggregating ads. Sell.com may be another option for them.
SF CHRONICLE -- Nov 20 -- Children who gab on Facebook or play online
games are gaining valuable social skills and learning some technology
basics, according to a new study sponsored by the MacArthur Foundation.
The report, contradicts the
idea held by many educators, parents and policymakers that children
should be blocked from online social networks and video games. Instead,
children should be encouraged to use the technologies to gain
a certain level of digital literacy, the study said. Mizuko Ito, a
research scientist in UC Irvine's department of
informatics who led the study, said that children who don't have access
to some of today's most popular online diversions risk being social
outsiders lacking some of the basic skills necessary to function in the
Internet age. FULL ARTICLE @ SF CHRONICLE
AFP -- Nov 19 -- Iran has blocked access to more than five million Internet
sites, whose content is mostly perceived as immoral and anti-social. With about 21m users, the Internet is widely popular in
Iran, which ranks among the top 20
user countries. The ban has also targeted Facebook and YouTube, as well as news sites. FULL ARTICLE @ AFP
TECH CRUNCH -- Nov 17 -- Application developers can apply to become a Verified App. If they pass they get a
badge and special placement in the Application directory, plus
increased communication limits with users, increased visibility in the
news feed and some free advertising credits. If they don't pass, they
get stuck into the unwashed masses of apps that aren't verified because
they aren't "meaningful," "trustworthy," or "well designed". FULL ARTICLE @ TECH CRUNCH
READWRITE WEB -- Nov 11 -- Facebook has seen users of its mobile site, m.facebook.com,
jump from 5m to 15m this year. The most recent change
made to the site, allowing comments to be posted on status messages
from your phone, resulted in more than 1 million mobile posts in the
first 24 hours. Facebook Mobile is now
probably bigger than the entire userbase of Mixi, Japan's leading
social network.
Last week 6 leading Japanese social networks, including Mixi, MySpace
Japan, Yahoo and others, announced that the companies are forming a
mysterious alliance that could include content and widget sharing
across their mobile sites. FULL ARTICLE @ READWRITE WEB
WSJ -- Nov 11 -- Facebook is rolling out a new ad format
called "engagement ads". The new ads appear on the main screen
when a person first logs in to Facebook. They prompt a user to take an
action that affiliates themselves with a brand such as comment on a
movie trailer or adding a TV show
to a personal list of events. FULL ARTICLE @ WSJ
GUARDIAN.CO.UK -- Nov 7 -- At the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco Mark Zuckerberg said he
would continue the plan to expand aggressively around the world – while the
head of MySpace suggested the company might bring out its own music
player to rival the iPod. Over
the past year the two websites have been jostling for top spot.
Facebook has already seen remarkable growth in the last 12 months,
growing from 50m users at the start of 2008 to around 125m today. Also
Zuckerberg hinted that
bringing Facebook to mobile phones could be a crucial next step for the
company. Technology industry analysts ABI Research recently predicted
that SN via mobile phones could be used by as many as 82m people within
five years. FULL ARTICLE @ GUARDIAN.CO.UK
TECH CRUNCH -- Oct 31 -- A year ago, according to
Comscore, they had just 74m unique monthly visitors and 35
billion page views. Today those numbers have grown by 118% and 74%,
respectively, to 161m unique visitors and 61 billion page views
per month. It costs a couple of hundred million dollars a year
just to keep the lights on at Facebook. But the real problem is keeping
up with growth, particularly storage needs. eMarketer estimates $265m
in revenue for Facebook in 2008 but the company is still losing money.
A big chunk, probably a majority, of the roughly $500m the
company has raised is already gone. Facebook could be
down to just a year's worth of cash at this point, with no IPO horizon
in sight. Sources have
told us that Facebook CFO Gideon Yu was in Dubai this week, possibly
meeting with Dubai International Capital, exploring fundraising options. FULL ARTICLE @ TECH CRUNCH
THE PRAGUE POST -- Oct 22 -- With
62,158 users who claim residence in the Czech Republic, Facebook has managed to make as significant an impact
here as it has in the U.S. and worldwide. Centrum, the Czech
company that runs Atlas.cz, Centrum.cz and
Czech Republic, among other sites, has
announced their own foray into social networking that will also combine
elements of professional networking sites such as LinkedIn. Sitko.cz will be launched at the
end of 2008. Sitko.cz will not be the first Czech-based networking site, as it follows the lead of rival Spolužáci.cz (Czech Classmates), a site operated by leading Web portal Seznam.cz. FULL ARTICLE @ THE PRAGUE POST
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