Granted, Facebook’s recent redesign came with a couple of flaws, and lots of people were upset about the changes, but resorting to street protests to try and turn them around?
The French have taken to the streets! Over the new Facebook design, that is. God bless their revolutionary hearts.
Following a much-discussed change in Facebook’s terms of service, co-founder Mark Zuckerberg took to the company blog Monday in an effort to dispel concerns about who owns what when it comes to user data: “Our philosophy is that people own their information and control who they share it with. When a person shares information on Facebook, they first need to grant Facebook a license to use that information so that we can show it to the other people they’ve asked us to share it with. Without this license, we couldn’t help people share that information.”
This month, when Facebook updated its terms, it deleted a provision that said users could remove their content at any time, at which time the license would expire. Further, it added new language that said Facebook would retain users’ content and licenses after an account was terminated. Continue Reading »
In the battle for online friends, Facebook is now the world leader and is turning 5.
Five years ago, Mark Zuckerberg launched a site out of his Harvard dorm called thefacebook.com. It was an immediate hit, despite competition from established social networks, because it offered a safe place for students to share things like party photos with just their real friends. So it’s hardly a birthday surprise that photo uploads — and a range of other methods for sharing personal information on the site — continue to gain popularity today, as can be seen from some new statistics just released by the company.
“Building and moving quickly for five years hasn’t been easy, and we aren’t finished.
“As we celebrate Facebook’s 5th birthday, we continue to work hard to evolve Facebook and make it as simple as possible to communicate with and understand the people and entities that matter to you,” wrote Mr Zuckerberg. Continue Reading »
In just a few short weeks, Matt Bacak has crossed the Facebook finish line with 5,000 Friends. By putting his own Internet marketing strategies into action, “The Powerful Promoter” has managed to break the social media networking barrier. Unfortunately for those Internet marketers who want to get connected to Bacak through Facebook, they’re too late.
At first, I took on the quest for 5,000 Facebook Friends as a fun challenge. The more I got into it, however, the more I realized that I could leverage the game to my advantage
Suwanee, GA (PRWEB) October 13, 2008 — “The Powerful Promoter,” Matt Bacak, is pleased to announce that he has made the Facebook record books. In record-setting pace, he has garnered 5,000 Friends on the top social media networking site. Because Facebook sets this figure as the limit for its members, Bacak has taken his networking endeavor as far as he possibly can. Known throughout the Internet marketing community as “The Powerful Promoter,” Bacak’s Facebook Friends’ list includes a who’s who of the Internet marketing industry’s elite. Jealous Internet marketers who would like to see who Bacak is connected with can do so by visiting his Facebook profile online at http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=675977989. Continue Reading »
A new website being launched next week is promising to do for business networking what Facebook has for making social links.
MeettheBoss.com, which goes live on September 8, is being heralded by the web’s designers as a site which will change the way executives communicate forever.
The membership of MeettheBoss.com, being called a “dream rolodex,” will feature CIOs, CEOs and other senior executives from the likes of ABN Amro, Barclays, HBOS, Goldman Sachs and Visa.
Weekly interviews with industry leaders will be webcast on the site’s dedicated channel. These will be combined with live, moderated discussion groups, video conferencing, IM and secure e-mail.
The designers of MeettheBoss.com claim it is the only financial services networking tool to combine quick and secure video calls with IM, e-mail and SMS between members on one, simple interface: their profile page.
Austin Adams, former CIO for JPMorgan Chase, said: “Every one of us as CIOs can be much more effective as individuals and as leaders if we take what I call a progressive/aggressive stance to dialogue with other CIOs.”
Users will be able to select an executive, read their bio information and extensive career notes, and in two clicks members can be on a video call to discuss common challenges.
There is no cost to joining and membership is by application only. MeettheBoss.com is strictly for financial services executives to ensure a truly secure, open environment where they can learn from each other.
Spencer Green, founder of MeettheBoss.com said: “We are really excited by the take-up on membership, which we will close at 50,000. We currently have 20,000 members through invitation only; the next 30,000 will be through application.”
Every week there will be video interviews with the top thought- and industry leaders, including Martin Davis, CIO for Wachovia, Kim Fournais, Co-CEO of Saxo Bank, and Peter Leukert, CIO at Commerzbank.
“We are seeing that this platform is exactly what the industry has been crying out for. The feedback has been incredible,” added Green.