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On The Eve Of It’s Fifth Birthday, A Facebook Design Retrospective
TechCrunch —
... Facebook turns five years old tomorrow. That’s practically middle-aged in Silicon Valley. To celebrate, Facebook has put up this ...
Facebook Turns 5; You Get Free Gifts
Mashable! —
... Now don’t get too excited - the free gifts are of the virtual variety. Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg writes, “To express our appreciation, we’ve created a “Thank You” gift, which will be available tomorrow in the Facebook Gift Shop for you to to give freely to others. In the spirit of celebrating connections between people, we encourage you to use this gift to give thanks to your friends, colleagues and family members with whom you are connected on Facebook.” ...
Facebook celebrates fifth birthday with growth in key sharing features
VentureBeat —
... Five years ago tomorrow, Mark Zuckerberg launched a site out of his Harvard dorm called thefacebook.com. It was an immediate hit, despite competition from established social networks, because it offered a safe place for students to share things like party photos with just their real friends. So it’s hardly a birthday surprise that photo uploads — and a range of other methods for sharing personal information on the site — continue to gain popularity today, as can be seen from some ...
Facebook Turns 5 Years Old - A Look at Facebook Through the Years
Inside Facebook —
... statuses at least once each day
850 million photos are uploaded to the site each month
24 million pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) are shared each month
3.5 million users become fans of Pages each day
The average user has 120 Facebook friends
Reflecting on the company’s 5 year anniversary, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said:
The culture of the Internet has also changed pretty dramatically ...
Bobbie Johnson: Why I'm finished with 'social media'
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... Facebook, as I'm sure everyone will be telling you today, is now five years old. Other things that happened five years ago? George Bush won a second term in office, serial killer Harold Shipman ended his life and South Korean scientists announced they'd cloned human embryos ( ...
Teens Not Attending School Can Now Join Facebook
Digital Inspiration - Technology Blog —
... You may well call it a birthday gift from Facebook but now teenagers, who are not attending high school or college, can become members of the most popular social networking site on the Internet without having to fake any information. ...
Linkpost | 2.4.2009
TechBlog —
Six of 7: Microsoft announces Windows 7 versions | Main February 04, 2009 Linkpost | 2.4.2009 • Twitter Chatter During the Super Bowl - Plays out on a timeline of the game. Very cool. Play with the topic list on the left side, too. • Twerrific News--New Dell Deals Exclusive to Twitter and Dawn of the Twitter Effect • Facebook's 5th Birthday - Is today. More than 150 million people use it. • Can the Cellphone Industry Keep Growing? - How to entice people to upgrade when they already have a phone. • Report hints at next-gen ...
Facebook Turns 5, Show them the Money!
(Obsolete Feed) —
... Today, Facebook is celebrating its fifth year of existence, and perhaps dominance in the social networking arena. With over 150 million registered members worldwide, this means that there were 30 millions users are adding up to Facebook membership base every year. This is certainly a lot considering that Facebook has only been around for five years. ...
Facebook Turns Five
AppScout —
... The site's founder, Mark Zuckerberg, also posted a celebratory message on his Facebook blog. There's someone asking for a free "thanks" placard, if I've ever seen one.
5Words: A Really Short News Roundup
Technologizer —
... You’re a really busy person. I’m a really busy person. Enter our new feature, 5words. It consists of quick news hits from around the Web–and just to keep things moving right along, every item will be five words long. (If that leaves you hungry for more, click the links to get more words on these stories elsewhere–hundreds of them, sometimes.) Here we go…
Google’s Latitude: Track your friends.
Facebook celebrates its fifth birthday.
Palm’s Pre arriving March 15th?
Asus ...
Facebook Turns 5 - Where Does That Leave Us?
Internet Evolution: —
... is celebrating its fifth birthday today. (Did you remember to hire the clown?) It's rather fitting for Facebook to be turning five, actually. True to form for the average five-year-old, Facebook regularly seeks attention, gets away with stupid mistakes, and has no money. Unlike most five-year-olds, though, Facebook has established global popularity, amassing more than 150 million users worldwide. The company also released ...
Facebook Turns Five Today, Offers Free Birthday Gifts
The Inquisitr » Technology —
... Facebook turns five years old today, and it’s giving out free gifts to celebrate. Don’t get too excited, though.
Facebook’s Fifth Birthday
Facebook entered the world on February 4, 2004 — and it’s evolved quite a bit since then. The following timeline shows the changes to Facebook’s home page year-to-year:
(Close-ups of the year-to-year home page images here.)
Facebook’s Free Gifts
As for the free gift, click over to the Facebook Gift Shop to grab yours. ...
Facebook and Basecamp Turn 5: Which Means More to You?
SitePoint —
... and how Basecamp got its start. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg similarly wrote about his company’s birthday on the Facebook blog. ...
Best and worst Facebook applications
Obsessable News Feed —
... Facebook officially turns 5 today, and in honor of its half-decade birthday we thought we'd pay tribute to some of our favorite — and least favorite — Facebook applications. Our informal virtual water cooler poll inspired some great debate between those of us who consider ...
Wake Up Call: Facebook Isn’t A Safe Haven
TechCrunch —
... In his blog post announcing the 5-year milestone, founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote that “Facebook has offered a safe and trusted environment for people to interact online, which has made millions of people comfortable expressing more about themselves.” But is Facebook really as safe as everyone seems to think? ...
4 Ways That Facebook Can Make Big Money
SearchEngineWatch Experts —
Facebook celebrated its fifth birthday last week with 150 million of its closest friends. Today, I give my gift to Facebook: four ways to make some big money this year. 1. Be a Better Google Google owns close to 100-percent market share in the search engine wars because it's the best at helping us find what we're looking for. While it's the best, it still isn't very good. If you search for someone famous or something factual, a Wikipedia page is likely the top result. That's why more people go straight to Wikipedia or use tools such as ...
