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