- Facebook set to unveil "SocialAd" network?Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on Oct 24, 2007 7:21 AM Subscribe Alerts

- On November 6th Facebook is set to "unveil a new way of advertising online", according to an invitation sent out to advertising agencies in New York.[Read the rest]
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- Official: MySpace Platform
- In a Q&A session last night at the Web 2.0 conference, Rupert Murdoch and MySpace co-founder Chris DeWolfe revealed details on the much rumored plans for the MySpace Platform, a... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Oct 18, 2007 10:13 AM
- Facebook vs LinkedIn (round three)
- Having previously argued that, with a few added features, Facebook could render LinkedIn and other "professional" social networking sites unnecessary, I'm now not so sure. Despite the opportunity to grow... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Oct 15, 2007 8:36 AM
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- Facebook fbFund re-boots; tightens up terms and conditions
- Originally asked to submit applications by email, the social networking site is now asking interested developers applying to its fbFund, to re-submit their proposals via a dedicated online application form.... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Oct 9, 2007 7:33 AM
- Facebook app: Fantasy Record Label from Amie St.
- How would Amie Street introduce their unique music social network and store to Facebook's users? Enter "Fantasy Record Label", a Facebook "game" which operates a bit like a fantasy sports... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Oct 5, 2007 5:31 AM
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- Facebook announces "fbFund" - grants for developers
- In a keynote conversation with Mike Arrington at the TechCrunch40 conference, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company will be offering grants to budding Facebook platform developers,... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Sep 18, 2007 7:16 AM
- Facebook just scared me
- When Dan Farber pinged me about the Digital Bill of Rights, I was a tad dismissive. Stuff like that usually leaves me cold - I guess it comes from years... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Dennis Howlett in Irregular Enterprise on: Sep 5, 2007 8:30 PM
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- Facebook, people search and privacy
- Facebook is now giving members the option to make their profiles searchable (see Techmeme for the various viewpoints on the news). In effect, your Facebook profile can be injected into... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Dan Farber in Between the Lines on: Sep 5, 2007 10:47 AM
- How Facebook's "public search listing" could empower users
- Facebook is adding "public search listings" whereby user profiles will be indexable by Google et al. This, once again, raises the issue of privacy on the social web. In this... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Sep 5, 2007 5:12 AM
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- A Bill of Rights for the social Web
- The social Web is in its early days, like the colonies that formed on the East coast of North America, grappling with a new and uncharted land and taxation without... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Dan Farber in Between the Lines on: Sep 5, 2007 12:12 AM
- LinkedIn vs Facebook (round two)
- The discovery of a couple of new functions in Facebook Platform's API (the set of hooks provided by Facebook for third-party developers building their own applications) hint at additional features... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Aug 30, 2007 6:04 AM
- "Appmrkt" wants to be the eBay for Facebook apps
- Facebook apps are all the rage these days, with existing web services rolling Facebook versions of their offerings, as well as developers creating dedicated Facebook-only applications. And already a number... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Aug 27, 2007 9:13 AM
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- Facebook wants to be your email client too
- I've moaned before about the way Facebook will send you an email every time a Facebook user sends you a message, but that the site still requires you to log-in... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Aug 21, 2007 9:46 AM
- Facebook's data feeds a data leak?
- Part of the appeal of the Facebook phenomenon are the fine-grained privacy controls users can impose, such as only letting friends see their activities, status, and postings. Though it's fantastic... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Aug 15, 2007 11:08 PM
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- RSS feeds on Facebook
- Dave Winer has "discovered" the existence of RSS feeds on Facebook. Although, as many have pointed out through comments left on TechCrunch's subsequent coverage, these are in fact somewhat limited... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Aug 15, 2007 8:35 AM
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- Know my shared items, know me
- Mario Romero's Facebook application, which shares your Google Reader shared items to other Facebook users, demonstrates how well it's possible to know someone based solely on what they browse and... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Aug 12, 2007 3:56 PM
- Lifestreaming on Facebook
- Not only is Facebook making lifestreaming mainstream, it also gives companies a very viral and social platform from which to promote their wares. [Read the rest]
- Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Aug 7, 2007 10:01 AM
- Social networks: what goes out, what goes in
- The Social Networking 3.0 panel at AlwaysOn considered issues of identity, attention, and intellectual property. [Read the rest]
- Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Aug 2, 2007 4:28 PM
- Facebook's spam machine
- I'm getting more friend requests and notifications from Facebook than any other social network I've joined. Though, not on the scale of A-list bloggers -- I'm just not that well... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Jul 30, 2007 6:30 AM
- 1 Comment
- Facebook's OS ambitions
- In a very entertaining and pertinent post, Dave McClure says that Facebook isn't the new AOL (as Jason Kottke has suggested) but in fact can be compared to Microsoft's Visual... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Jul 20, 2007 5:07 AM
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- Im in ur Facebook app, slurpin' up ur feedz
- When Google Reader's "Shared Items" enter Mario Romero's Facebook application, what pulses out the other end is the steady flow of what's influencing the influencers. [Read the rest]
- Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Jul 20, 2007 1:46 AM
- Dealing with Facebook time
- While on vacation the last two weeks in the Northwest, I've spent my time picking raspberries, chopping wood, herding ducks, whacking weeds and golf balls and lounging at the river.... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Dan Farber in Between the Lines on: Jul 18, 2007 10:31 PM
- Poll: is Facebook Platform good for the web?
- When Facebook first announced its new 'Platform' whereby third-party companies could built applications and set-up shop within the social networking site, many pronounced its 'openness' as a good thing, since... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Jul 18, 2007 7:35 AM
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- Facebook and employment: an equal opportunity information trap
- Those worried that their Facebook or other social networking data can come back to haunt them in the employment context can take heart: employers can get in trouble as well... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Denise Howell in Lawgarithms on: Jul 16, 2007 1:01 PM
- 3 Comments
- Should you trust Facebook with your users?
- When there are kinks in the Facebook Platform, to users it can often look like a problem with the third-party app itself. After a recent outage, Facebook app "Matches" lost... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Jul 16, 2007 5:39 AM
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- Facebook, show us the money
- With more reports of poor click-through rates for ads run on the site, an ad-network specially designed for Facebook apps launches. [Read the rest]
- Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Jul 12, 2007 5:17 AM
- Facebook visitors up 89%
- According to a comScore's data, unique visitors in the US grew by 89% to a total of 26.6 million per month, from May 06 to 07. And now that anybody... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Jul 6, 2007 4:35 AM
- The Facebook effect: MySpace to open up
- MySpace may soon open itself up to third-party developers -- in a similar strategy to Facebook -- which would see outside companies able to "plug" their web services into the... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Jun 29, 2007 5:27 AM
- Research: Myspace and Facebook are different class
- Research by Danah Boyd suggests that the two social networking sites reflect existing class structures. [Read the rest]
- Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Jun 25, 2007 11:10 AM
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- Facebook and MySpace are like chalk 'n' cheese
- Broadly speaking the two sites cater for different demographics, solve different problems, and in terms of strategy -- with Facebook's new platform -- couldn't be further apart. Yet they both... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Jun 21, 2007 4:58 AM
- 9 Comments
- Monetizing Facebook applications
- With Facebook's new platform reportedly attracting 1,000 developers a day in its first month, I thought it would be interesting to hear one developer's story of the challenge faced when... [Read the rest]
- Posted by Steve O'Hear in The Social Web on: Jun 20, 2007 3:54 AM
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