radar.oreilly.com - 12/4/2008
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Since we began tracking Facebook demographics in late May , weekly growth has held steady, usually in the low single-digits on a percentage basis. More importantly, it's fair to say that the company has successfully expanded overseas. With close to 128M users, the share of U.S. users is down to ...
facebook.com - 12/5/2008
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facebook.com —
Postcard Spam If a friend sends you a
message or posts on your Wall with a link
to a postcard for you to open, don't click on it. Chances are it's a virus that may cause your Facebook account to become compromised. If you do click on one of these ...
(more)
Facebook Security
blog.facebook.com - 12/4/2008
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blog.facebook.com —
Over the summer we announced an extension of
Facebook Platform called Facebook Connect. Facebook Connect makes it
easier for you to take your online identity with you all over the Web, share what you do online with your friends and stay updated on ...
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Facebook Across the Web
valleywag.com - 12/5/2008
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valleywag.com —
So much for Silicon Valley's latest get-rich-quick scheme.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has cancelled a plan to
let employees cash out their shares early. In August, before the markets started to melt down and with Facebook worth $15 billion on ...
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Facebook cancels employee stock sale [Meltdowns]
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Facebook Growing Fast In Foreign Countries
WebProNews Feed —
... Americans now represent less than one-third of user base It seems that a global financial crisis isn't about to stop Facebook's spread. Even as the European Central Bank delivers its biggest interest rate cut ever, a new report is documenting the social network's impressive levels of growth overseas. According to Ben Lorica , there's been a 17 percent rate of change in North America over the last 12 weeks, but only Africa failed to tie or improve upon this number (showing a 15 percent rate of change). Oceania, Central America and the Caribbean, Asia, South America, the ...
Facebook finally hits the mainstream
The Open Road —
... O'Reilly Radar's Ben Lorica writes that Facebook has been growing steadily on a global basis, and suggests through the data that Facebook adoption is deep and widespread. Most intriguingly, he finds that in North America working-age users is the fastest growing demographic, while teen segment is growing much ... ...
Facebook and Its Partners - What Are They Up To?
louisgray.com —
... , and keeps growing, despite continued complaints about annoying application invitations, an unintuitive redesign, and is still embraced by the public, even with spam issues. Most recently, Facebook made a bold move, penetrating the single log-on realm with ...
Facebook's French Connection
WebProNews Feed —
... on Facebook's international growth last week, citing some data from O'Reilly radar: According to Ben Lorica , there's been a 17 percent rate of change in North America over the last 12 weeks, but only Africa failed to tie or improve upon this number (showing a 15 percent rate of change). Oceania, Central America and the Caribbean, Asia, South America, the Middle East and North Africa, and Europe generated rates of 17, 22, 32, 33, 45, and 49 percent, respectively. A couple months ago, Facebook ...
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