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Sarah, Sarah, Sarah, what were you thinking?

July 26, 2008

Business, Design, Efficiency, Governance, IT, SaaS, Strategy, Web x.0

Facebook, sarah lacy, sliderocket

I like Sarah Lacy, I kind of felt for her when she was torn apart for her interview of Facebook founder mark Zuckerberg last year. True she came across that time as something of a sycophant – but she…

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Facebook is the educational uber-panacea for all ills! While Wikipedia creates dunces!

June 30, 2008

IT, Society, Web x.0

education, Facebook, social media

Eureka! – a study just published tells us that Facebook (and other social networking sites) have a significant educational benefit. The crux of the findings are that low decile students, those formerly found to be at the lower end…

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Virus apps hurting Facebook..

June 22, 2008

Business, IT, Strategy

Facebook

Some interesting data about the effect of banal and spammy apps on Facebook. In a predictable and cyclical process – higher traffic creates motivation for the spammers, whose influx onto the site then lessens growth. An ovum analyst cites…

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Reid Hoffman on Web 2.0

June 20, 2008

Business, IT, New business, Strategy, Web x.0

Facebook, linkedin, reid hoffman

Sarah Lacy interviews Reid Hoffman to get his read on Web 2.0 business. The interview was recorded on the same day that LinkedIn had an outage so Sarah asks the obvious questions around outages and the harm they can…

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Let’s give up pretending that "friends" means friends…

June 19, 2008

Business, Design, IT, Society, Web x.0

Facebook, myspace, social networking

Over on Newsweek there is much concern and hand-wringing over the number of “friends” one can have on social networking sites. The author points out Facebook’s 5000 friend limitation and MySpace’s no-holds barred, bring as many as you like…

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Facebook and first mover advantage…

June 13, 2008

Business, Design, IT, Strategy, Web x.0

Facebook, social networking

I’ve said before that Facebook has pretty much lost it’s relevance for me. Other than old friends, I’ve moved most of my dialogue onto micro-blogging or other such services. On my infrequent returns to Facebook however I’m seeing an…

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Scobleizer on MS/Yahoo/Facebook

May 20, 2008

IT, Strategy

data portability, Facebook, google, Microsoft, yahoo

Robert Scoble has an interesting take on the on again/off again MS/Yahoo deal and how it relates to MS’s rumoured overtures to Facebook. Scoble sees this as potentially the battle supreme between an open web and a closed web.…

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What is the viable business model for internet business?

May 19, 2008

Design, Efficiency, SaaS, Society, Strategy, Web x.0

Facebook, google, monetization

I get a little hot under the collar at web startups that have no real idea where their monetization will come from. Almost as bad (or maybe worse) are those who believe the holy grail of the dollar will…

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Mainstream media sometimes doesn’t get it…

May 16, 2008

New Zealand, Web x.0

bebo, Facebook, media, myspace, national radio

I love New Zealand’s National Radio, but sometimes it needs to stick to it’s knitting. This morning they had a piece of Facebook, its battle for eyeballs in New Zealand with Bebo and concerns over security. It’s an attempt…

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And more on Datacentres

May 14, 2008

Design, Efficiency, IT, Strategy

data centres, Facebook, Microsoft

Microsoft acknowledges that it is adding 10000 servers per month to its existing datacentre capacity. It’s new Chicago server farm alone will be able to pack in 300000srvers. MS has the scale to justify this sort of expenditure and…

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