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May 06 2012
Twitter said to have considered buying mobile photo app Camera+ but ...
Bloomberg :: Soon after Facebook agreed to pay $1 billion for Instagram, social networking rival Twitter considered acquiring a mobile photo-sharing application called Camera+, two people with knowledge of the negotiations said. Twitter executives held several meetings with Camera+ developer Tap Tap Tap, but talks broke down before Twitter could make an offer.
Continue to read Mark Milian, go.bloomberg.com
Warren Buffett to CNBC: Mark Zuckerberg right to keep tight control
CNBC :: Warren Buffett has no plans to buy into the upcoming Facebook IPO, but tells CNBC's Becky Quick he has spoken for a few hours with founder Mark Zuckerberg and thinks he's doing the right thing by maintaining tight control of the company, even after it goes public.
HT: Henry Blodget, Business Insider
Buffett just told me he spoke to Mark Zuckerberg for hours about taking Facebook public. Offered advice. #BuffettWatch #BRK2012
— Becky Quick (@beckyquickcnbc) May 5, 2012
Continue to read Alex Crippen, BuffetWatch.cnbc.com
May 05 2012
The day Facebook blocked Robert Scoble because of 'irrelevant' content ...
Robert Scoble | Google+ :: I go over to Max Woolf's content area on Facebook, and respond to his post about PandoDaily, which is here: https://www.facebook.com/max.woolf/posts/326466947419794.
... but Facebook keeps me from posting a comment. It gave me this error:
[Facebook error message:] This Comment Can't Be Posted. This comment seems irrelevant or inappropriate ...
Looks like Facebook is doing content analysis in real time before it will let you post and is looking to keep the service "happy." I sure wonder now what kind of algorithms Facebook is running on content.
Robert Scoble initiated a discussion on Facebook:
Continue to read Robert Scoble, plus.google.com
Facebook Messenger now shows who’s read your messages
VentureBeat :: Version 1.7 of Facebook Messenger for iPhone (App Store link) and Android (Google Play link, out today, keeps conversations flowing between friends with three new features. The app lets you know who has seen your messages, gives you the ability to see where your friends are messaging you from, and includes a more visible real-time typing indicator.
Continue to read Jennifer Van Grove, venturebeat.com
Facebook buys location-based discovery app Glancee
An "acquihire" again?
TechCrunch :: A little under one month after its acquisition of Instagram, Facebook has acquired Highlight competitor and ambient location app Glancee. The social network has already shut down the developer’s passive location app and all three co-founders, Glancee’s only full-time employees, will join Facebook, which now owns its technology.
Continue to read Alexia Tsotsis, techcrunch.com
May 03 2012
Consumers Union blasts Facebook in full-page ad
AdAge :: Consumers Union took out a full-page ad in Politico today bashing Facebook's privacy policies--or lack thereof. While the ad copy seems written to an average consumer, its placement in Politico is obviously an attempt to catch the eye of politicians.
Watch the ad here - Continue to read Ken Wheaton, adage.com
Facebook Action Links: Post, comment was yesterday, now you can take action
For sure a big step to increase the interactivity of posts from your friends in your Facebook timeline. What if you discover in your timeline that one of your friends has cooked a new recipe and the friend's post allows you to download the recipe without leaving the story?
Facebook Developers :: Open Graph Actions are the high-level "interactions" users can perform in your app. When these actions are published, the activities may appear in a users' Timeline or their friends' News Feeds and Ticker. Open Graph Action Links show up alongside the Like and Comment actions in any Open Graph story allowing friends to quickly take action in response to a story without having to navigate away from that story. This in turn will drive more distribution to your app with fewer user clicks.
Continue to read developers.facebook.com
Twitter, YouTube, Facebook big data analytics: DataSift lands $7.2m in inside funding round
The Next Web :: DataSift, a rising star in the world of ‘big data’ collection and analysis, has raised $7.2 million from existing backers GRP Partners and IA Ventures to help accelerate growth as worldwide demand for its services continues to soar. DataSift describes its solution as a real-time and historical social data platform, but the reality is that the startup is poised to go beyond the aggregation and analysis of the billions of conversations on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and whatnot.
Continue to read Robin Wauters, thenextweb.com
April 30 2012
340 million Tweets per day: The science of social attention
Guardian Media Network : When social networks first emerged, they were a platform for connecting people who wanted to stay in touch and share personal information. Today, social networks are anything but child's play. With over 340 million Tweets per day and 483 million daily active users on Facebook, social networks have become the most powerful and critically important platform to business. The challenge is no longer access to your consumer. It is winning the war for the audience's attention. How do you break through the information bottleneck?
[Frank Speiser:] Applied maths and science are key to breaking through the information bottleneck to grab the attention of your audience through social media.
Continue to read Frank Speiser, www.guardian.co.uk
A Pinterest rival: TheFind launches Glimpse built on Facebook Likes
GigaOM :: Pinterest’s rise has helped highlight the value of social discovery over traditional search for shopping and the lesson hasn’t been lost on competitors. TheFind, a shopping search site with a trove of product data, is going after Pinterest with the launch of Glimpse, a new Facebook shopping discovery app that is built on top of Facebook “like” data.
Clipped from: www.thefind.com (share this clip)Continue to read gigaom.com
April 29 2012
A Facebook page documenting debris from Japan's Tsunami
The Next Web :: It’s been just over a year since a devastating tsunami hit Japan, and the Maritime Museum of British Columbia (MMBC) has come up with the latest online project aiming to help survivors, in a unique way, with the use of a Facebook page.
Clipped from: www.facebook.com (share this clip)Continue to read Nancy Messieh, thenextweb.com
#OccupyWallStreet: Law enforcement agencies monitor Twitter and Facebook accounts
CBS News NEW YORK :: Facebook and Twitter are now essential tools for protest movements like Occupy Wall Street. Nine in 10 law enforcement agencies say they monitor social media. CBS News correspondent Tony Guida reports they are using what they find to make cases against demonstrators.
Video available - Reported by, continue here Tony Guida, www.cbsnews.com
Facebook "likes" aren't speech protected by the First Amendment
ars technica :: Bobby Bland and his cohorts worked in the Hampton Sheriff’s Office, under B.J. Roberts. Roberts ran for re-election against Jim Adams, and the plaintiffs were lukewarm in their support of Roberts. In fact, three of the plaintiffs went so far as to "like" Adams' Facebook page. Roberts won the election, and he decided to not retain the plaintiffs. He justified the terminations on cost-cutting and budgeting grounds, but plaintiffs argued that their termination violated their First Amendment rights.
Bland v. Roberts, 4-11cv45 (E.D. Va.; Apr. 24, 2012)
HT: Jeff Jarvis, here referring to a post by Lauren Weinstein (link in the tweet) on Google+:
Court says Facebook Like's are not protected speech. plus.google.com/u/0/1147530286…
— Jeff Jarvis (@jeffjarvis) April 29, 2012
Continue to read Venkat Balasubramani with comments from Eric Goldman, arstechnica.com
April 28 2012
International news council in Madrid: Social media not necessarily journalism’s panacea
paidContent :: Tech giants may have their own views on what journalism should become, but some news organisations are questioning what benefits the social vision of future news can really bring at a time when they’re struggling for business survival … Lunch-stealing?
[Rob Grimshaw:] Facebook will make north of $3 billion in advertising this year. This is not doing anything good for journalism – in fact, it’s destroying it.
Source: FT.com MD Rob Grimshaw told the Paley Center For Media’s international council in Madrid last week; here quoted by Robert Andrews
Continue to read Robert Andrews, paidcontent.org
April 27 2012
Yahoo: Facebook bought patents just to countersue
TechCrunch :: Counter-countersuit! Yahoo today claimed (on Scribd) that the patents Facebook is countering its patent infringement lawsuit against the social network with “were acquired by Facebook for purposes of retaliation”, and therefore violate the U.S. Patent Office’s “Duty of Disclosure, Candor, and Good Faith” and should be diregarded by the court.
Continue to read Josh Constine, techcrunch.com
Dori Hartley: When you die on Facebook
Huffington Post :: For about four years now, I've kept an account on Facebook. It's been good; I've generally enjoyed my time spent on the site. I've reconnected with old friends, sold books and directed readers over to my Huffington Post essays. I've seen the engagement announcements of my friends, read about their marriages and break-ups -- I've seen their newborn babies and photos of their beloved pets. I've also witnessed another strange natural occurrence: the death of friends. So, what happens when you die on Facebook?
Continue to read Dori Hartley, www.huffingtonpost.com
Yahoo files more Facebook patent claims
AllThingsD :: In spite of intense criticism against its patent infringement lawsuit, Yahoo filed additional claims against Facebook today. Facebook had filed its own counterclaims against the Internet portal over various social networking patents and also has recently spent hundreds of millions of dollars for both patents and licenses from both IBM and Microsoft to bolster its portfolio.
Latest filling embedded - Continue to read Kara Swisher, allthingsd.com
Dustin Moskovitz: The Facebook factor, when you launch a startup
Business Insider :: Facebook employees seem to have a special knack for founding successful startups these days. We've called it the Facebook mafia. We asked one of the most famous ex-Facebookers about it: co-founder Dustin Moskovitz. (Moskovitz is currently kicking butt in a new startup, Asana, launched about six months ago.) His answer surprised us ... because it's not just their money and connections.
Continue to read Julie Bort, www.businessinsider.com
Newseum looks at social media in new HP New Media Gallery
Washington Post :: The Newseum has selected an interactive exhibition on social media as its first permanent addition at the museum since it opened in 2008. It’s only natural since Twitter, Facebook, Flickr, Tumblr, as well as Google and YouTube have become part of the daily news feed.
Continue to read Jacqueline Trescott, www.washingtonpost.com
Social TV highlights from the MTV upfront
Lost Remote :: A packed Beacon Theater in NYC enjoyed a fun MTV upfront that highlighted a slew of new and returning programing built for a Twitter and Facebook generation. The presentation started off highlighting that MTV both broke a Twitter record with Beyonce at the VMAs, has over 100 million viewers and 100 million Facebook likes (as we learned earlier this week from President Stephen Friedman) and has been covered as the number one social TV network.
Here’s how social TV will play an even bigger part of MTV’s programming and initiatives for the next year.
Continue to read Natan Edelsburg, www.lostremote.com
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