GigaomIs the web dying, killed off by mobile apps? It’s complicated
The growth in mobile app usage has some concerned that the open web is in decline, or being threatened — but much of mobile usage doesn’t come at the expense of… Read more »
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Facebook (formerly [thefacebook]) is an online social networking service. Its name comes from a colloquialism for the directory given to students at some American universities. Facebook was founded in 2004. The founders had initially limited the website’s membership to Harvard students, but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various other universities and later to their high-school students. Facebook now allows anyone who claims to be at least 13 years old worldwide to become a registered user of the website, although proof is not required.
Users create a personal profile, add other users as friends, exchange messages, post status updates and photos, and receive notifications when others update their profiles. Additionally, users may join common-interest user groups, organized by workplace, school or college, or other characteristics, and categorize their friends into lists such as “People From Work” or “Close Friends”. Facebook had over one billion active users as of September 2012 (of which approximately 9% were fake). Facebook held its initial public offering in 2012 and reached a peak market capitalization of $104 billion.
The growth in mobile app usage has some concerned that the open web is in decline, or being threatened — but much of mobile usage doesn’t come at the expense of… Read more »
Nine big tech powers really want the USA Freedom Act — which would curtail some of the government’s data gathering activities — to pass and are pushing the Senate to get… Read more »
The Financial Times reported that Facebook is building a suitable-for-work version of its popular social network. Which begs the question: Do we really want to use Facebook for work? Read more »
Facebook’s latest algorithm tweak will hit businesses the hardest: Promotional, spammy Page posts will no longer surface on people’s newsfeeds. The backlash to Facebook’s move is overblown. Read more »
Facebook detailed on Friday a new networking technology dubbed Data Center Fabric that coordinates all of the information flowing throughout its new data center in Altoona, Iowa. The Altoona facility is… Read more »
SAY Media, created when video-content company VideoEgg acquired blog-software provider Six Apart in 2010, says it is selling off its media properties — the latest example of a company getting squeezed… Read more »
Mandalay Digital plans to combine Appia with its own mobile business Digital Turbine to create a marketing network that will bring mobile carriers back to the table when it comes to… Read more »
Facebook’s privacy policies are back in the news again, and they reflect a major improvement — to the company’s PR strategy. Otherwise, it’s just the same old deal with the devil… Read more »
Wildcard, a New York-based startup, has built a browser for iOS where cards — not HTML webpages — are the standard unit that users interact with when surfing the internet. Read more »
Men now make up a third of Pinterest’s new signups. It’s an important development that shows the social network can appeal to the public at large. Read more »