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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.
Country star Taylor Swift made some bold and hopeful claims this week about where the music business is going. We should listen to her. Read more »
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Facebook’s most recent episode of stepping well past the painted lines and wandering around in no-man’s land continues to reverberate, and probably won’t quiet down quickly. In case you’ve been living… Read more »
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When companies successfully design for online discovery, people are delivered the information they need before they realize they need it. But as Facebookâs newsfeed experiment reminded us, the challenge is to… Read more »
After debuting its standalone Messenger app for iPhone (s aapl) and Android (s goog) three years ago, Facebook (s fb) has finally expanded the app to accommodate for the iPad. The… Read more »
The app tells users what services like Facebook can figure out about their personality and intentions. In the future, it wants to encourage people to feed that data to advertisers for… Read more »
Our coverage direction remains the same, but we’ve decided to arrange the furniture a little differently here at Gigaom. Read more »