“This Friday, August 8th, the stock market closed for the week with Facebook still holding a bigger market cap at $190 billion compared to IBM at $186 billion. It’s an impressive shift, given that Facebook is a much smaller company by other metrics. It has 7,185 employees to IBM’s 431,212, $7.87 billion in 2013 revenue […]
The Federal Trade Commission wants to protect the privacy of minors, but Facebook objects on First Amendment grounds. Here’s why the social network’s argument is weak, self-serving, and bound to fail. Known as the Children’s Online Privacy Protect…
via gigaom.com “Regardless of whether Facebook managed to meet the sky-high expectations of insiders or those who bought shares in advance of the IPO, or even of retail investors who got caught up in the hype, there is an argument to be made that …
via technologyreview.com “He found that our close friends strongly sway which information we share, but overall their impact is dwarfed by the collective influence of numerous more distant contacts???what sociologists call “weak ties.” It is our div…
A lot of people interested in free software, and user autonomy and network services are very worried about Facebook. Folks are worried for the same reason that so many investors are interested: the networks effects brought by hundreds of millions …
via robinsloan.com “When you think Facebook, think: photos. And don???t be surprised if you see Facebook do even more to cement this incredible position. [..] Maybe in twenty years we???ll think of Google primarily as a vision company???augmenting our v…