online.wsj.com - 11/11/2008
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online.wsj.com —
Despite its surging Internet audience, Facebook Inc. has
yet to prove it can wring steady revenue out...
of advertisers. Now it's trying a new tactic to woo Madison Avenue. The Palo Alto, Calif., company is rolling out a new ad format called "engagement ...
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Facebook Tries to Woo Marketers
developers.facebook.com - 10/31/2008
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developers.facebook.com —
At Facebook, we're committed to enabling people to
communicate and stay connected wherever they go. In August...
2006, we introduced the first version of the Facebook API, enabling users to share their information with the third party websites and ...
(more)
Facebook Developers | Facebook Developers News
alleyinsider.com - 11/11/2008
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alleyinsider.com —
Facebook's common stock is now changing hands in
private sales at about a $4 billion valuation, a...
source says (unconfirmed). And Facebook CFO Gideon Yu is indeed trying to raise money in Dubai , the source says (also unconfirmed). As we all know, ...
(more)
Facebook Stock Now Worth About $4 Billion
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Howard Stern Explains Why Social Networking and Twitter are Stupid
CenterNetworks —
Last month Howard Stern (no relation) discussed social networks and blogs. While there are a lot of expletives, it's very much worth listening to. It's a view I've been hearing more and more as I travel. And it's something that I've started to really wonder about as I watch what people "tweet"...is there really a future for this type of sharing. Note that Howard calls the networks MyFaceBook and MyFace.
Here's a few of his comments:
it's all a waste of time
if you are over 15, you shouldn't be on these networks
people put everything on a blog like people give a fu**
go get a job ...
Gary Vaynerchuk vs. Howard Stern
mathewingram.com/work —
Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV may have started getting into video and Twitter and other social media to push wine, but he has become a leading proponent of using social-media tools to build your personal brand and sell whatever it is you want to sell (including yourself). In the video clip embedded here, he takes on Howard Stern — who should probably change his name from the King of All Media to the King of Old Media — who launched into a tirade about the uselessness of blogs and Facebook on a recent episode of his satellite radio show. I think Gary is probably onto something when he says that Howard (to whom he gives a lot of props for ...
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Last month Howard Stern (no relation) discussed social networks and blogs. While there are a lot of expletives, it's very much worth listening to. It's a view I've been hearing more and more as I travel. And it's something that I've started to ...
Facebook Connect: Coming Soon to a Site Near You?
readwriteweb.com 11/5/2008 — Facebook Connect - the service that allows developers to access Facebook data from outside of the Facebook chrome - has been met with both cautious optimism and healthy skepticism . And with good reason. The service holds the potential to ...
The Facebook Election Results
allfacebook.com 11/5/2008 — If you have been living under a rock for the past 24 hours, Barack Obama won the U.S. Presidential election. Also declaring a big win yesterday: Facebook. A couple of hours ago, Randi Zuckerberg posted statistics of yesterday’s Facebook ...
Facebook’s Big Bet
allfacebook.com 11/7/2008 — Yesteday at Web 2.0 Summit, Mark Zuckerberg sat on stage and told John Battelle that the future of Facebook lies in advertising, when responding to the question of how Facebook is going to make money from Connect. In other words, Facebook has a ...
Facebook’s Latest Ad Rates Down 50 Percent
allfacebook.com 11/7/2008 — According to Facebook’s advertising latest rate card, homepage advertisement rates are down 50 percent from last year. Last October I wrote about Facebook’s advertising rates . At the time Facebook homepage advertisements attracted a $10 ...
Here's A Billion-Dollar Business For Facebook
alleyinsider.com 11/13/2008 — We hear Facebook's 2008 revenues will come in lower than expected . Besides the economy, there is one big reason why. Ad agency execs tell us Facebook has so far failed to develop an ad product that is a must-buy.
This might not be Facebook's ...
Facebook’s Growing Problem
techcrunch.com 10/31/2008 — When Facebook raised $240 million from Microsoft in 2007, and another $235 million in debt and equity in 2008, everyone thought they had plenty of cash to get through their big growth phase. With that kind of cash, the company could hire as many ...
Facebook Music is getting its act together
venturebeat.com 10/22/2008 — Facebook is indeed working on a plan to deeply integrate streaming music into its site, I’ve learned. The details of a rumor published last week in the New York Post are, from my understanding, basically accurate. The social network is ...
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