Facebook’s new campus is up and the employees are moving in. Here are some insights into the goodies they have laid out: The whole campus is connected through a central courtyard. Right now it’s still filled with bulldozers and dirt, but when it’s finished, we’ll have two full-service cafes, two coffee shops, on-site doctors, a …
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Amazing that all our sharing in Facebook resulted in some really interesting articles. Compare this to the yearly top search terms and it shows that we are a bit more sophisticated with our friends. Of course, it turns out that I’ve only read two of the 40 most popular. Here are the top 10 with …
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Amazing that all our sharing in Facebook resulted in some really interesting articles. Compare this to the yearly top search terms and it shows that we are a bit more sophisticated with our friends. Of course, it turns out that I’ve only read two of the 40 most popular. Here are the top 10 with …
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I’m having a lot of fun with these new social apps. The trouble is they are hard to find unless you have a ton of friends already using them. Not to worry, I’ve uncovered all the apps released at launch during F8. Here are all 21 of them, in order of popularity (users) as of …
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You know how everything Google does is launched in a “beta” mode. They know that their products are most likely going to break, fail, or simply invade your privacy. Google is so obsessed with beta releases that they often leave them in perpetual beta. So why is Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg so against beta? This …
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You know how everything Google does is launched in a “beta” mode. They know that their products are most likely going to break, fail, or simply invade your privacy. Google is so obsessed with beta releases that they often leave them in perpetual beta. So why is Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg so against beta? This …
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At the last big Facebook conference Mark Zuckerberg and SNL comedian Andy Samberg kept talking about Beast, Mark’s new dog. They would show a Facebook Page with all these photos, comments, and fans. Which got me thinking that if Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook, can have a page for his dog…then so …
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This is a guest post by Kirby Plessas (@kirbstr), President and CEO of Plessas Experts Network, a consultancy that informs, trains, and researches for clients on internet technology, information extraction, security and worldwide internet usage. … Just as users are getting settled into the new Facebook feed style that was released a few weeks ago, …
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Yesterday I logged into Google+ and immediately became lost. I spent about five minutes playing around and then left. Today I came back and dropped an hour and a half playing with it. Here is what I found, and why I love it: Built-in Profile Ok, I’m a blogger and I want Google to send …
Yesterday I logged into Google+ and immediately became lost. I spent about five minutes playing around and then left. Today I came back and dropped an hour and a half playing with it. Here is what I found, and why I love it: Built-in Profile Ok, I’m a blogger and I want Google to send …