Diary - Celebrity NewsFacebook's corporate culture becoming a management talking point was one thing I predicted at the start of the year, so it's an interesting to see a flavor of that prediction coming true. MTV recently aired a behind-the-scenes look at the corporate culture of Facebook and...
Brands could do worse than think about how they might get closer to start ups. In recent months both Facebook and AOL have made plans for this. Facebook is partnering with Seedcamp in Europe to provide start-ups with access to their platform, opportunities to visit Facebook HQ, etc. This gives the...
Here's a brief element of some nice research done by IBM, who went out last year and explored global consumer expectations of social media and contrasted those with the reasons executives believed consumers followed them on social sites. The results are startling...Consumers want...To buyTo...
Facebook is certainly going to emerge as a commerce platform- the question is not about if, it's all about when? Waiting around for an answer to that question is a complete waste of time. You should be selling something on Facebook now, it could be a bunch of your inventory, or as in the case of...
Netbase is one of dozens of companies that measure social media. They out together a handy graphic to measure what they define as "brand passion" based out of social conversations.What's interesting to see in the tech space is how not unexpectedly, Apple and Twitter dominate the passion zone and to...
The full merging of brands into the social media space is now going to happen with Facebook's new initiative around sponsored stories. This means that your interactions with brands on the giant social network get turned into ads which get shared on the network. This development marks the point when...
Some good insight provided by Hugh Pickens on Slashdot of how Facebook ships code. It gives us a bit of a window into how Facebook's hacker culture works.1. All engineers learn the system at boot camp- 4/6 weeks of fixing bugs2. Engineers get access to the live database3. New feature ideas can be...
Everyone loves Facebook, it's now even the darling of Wall Street. With its 600 million users and a 70% penetration of the US population, it's a media giant. However, in terms of the sophistication in which brands are using Facebook, we are at an embryonic level. As Callum Sunders points out in his...
Paul Graham's piece on Yahoo's demise is a must read for anyone looking for answers to the fail from grace of a once iconic brand. Graham's rationale for Yahoo's failure is put down essentially one thing; its lack of a "Hacker Culture". It didn't have brilliant engineers at the heart and soul of...
Mark Pincus, the founder of Zynga, recently announced to The Daily Telegraph that he wants Zynga to become a verb."I want people to ‘Zynga’ each other
and for the word to become completely aligned with gaming."This is quite a big shift from where he's been and where gaming has been...
The Social Network will likely emerge together with Inception as a contender for movie of the year. While the later uses fantasy to take us to a future world that's built from an understanding of present realities, The Social Network is very much about "the now" and the changes we've seen going...
The latest news that Target and Facebook getting together over gift cards for social gaming is fascinating for a number of reasons- 5 to be precise.1. Target demonstrates relevanceThe Facebook association shows that the retailer gets where the world is heading and understands the power of the...
Technology Review has a great article that gets inside the world of 4chan and its founder Christopher Poole to reveal a world where anonymity is prized, anything goes and there is no history. It's a place where the ugly side of the web that many want to censor is free and rampant and is in many...
Watching last night's launch of Facebook's new "Places" product, it was impossible not to be struck by the youth, style and approach of Zuckerberg and his team. This was not corporate America as usual; it was causal, straight-forward and importantly, honest. They launched a product that because...
There was a time when independent movies and music occupied a niche, it
was the world that wasn't part of the mainstream and it was where you
went to look to find the cool stuff. Sometime around the mid-90s all
that changed and independent became mass.
The same thing is happening in the world...