Posts about Zuckerberg's world-destroying data gathering machine.
Second video of the day: It’s rather ironic that it hit the web a few days before the news that Facebook is running experiments on our emotions [http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22229754.900-even-online-emotions-can-be-contagious.html#.U7KOUFbtlbz] . There’s a whole bunch of interesting research to be done on constructed
business strategy
Is Facebook becoming a good old fashioned conglomerate? Felix Salmon thinks so [http://feedly.com/e/tRs6jlWF]: > Zuckerberg knows how short-lived products can be, on the internet: he knows that if he wants to build a company which will last decades, it’s going to have to outlast Facebook
algorithms
The Facebook game has changed, and anyone who is surprised hasn’t been paying attention. Social@Ogilvy published research showing that the reach of posts from brand pages on Facebook has been plummeting [https://social.ogilvy.com/facebook-zero-considering-life-after-the-demise-of-organic-reach/] , something borne out by the couple of pages I have a hand
Cliff Watson [https://medium.com/understandings-epiphanies/aae8d5f880cc]: > You see, we’ve come to define “social” in unintentional Orwellian double-speak. “Social” has come to mean the exact opposite of what it’s meant for centuries. Instead of actual interaction and communication, we define “social” as once- or twice-removed ego validation
Are people rejecting the idea of a single online identity mediated by a large online entity? Stowe Boyd thinks so [http://stoweboyd.com/post/67357217833/facebook-still-dominant-strives-to-keep-cachet] : > The Benthamite underpinnings of Facebook are becoming unpopular. Young people in particular don’t want their teachers, parents, employers, and even all their
Twitter drives a tenth of the traffic that Facebook does to news sites. So why are journalists so obsessed with Twitter [http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/11/11/why-do-journalists-prefer-twitter-to-facebook/] ? Well, there’s a good reason: > The reason, I think, is that Twitter is simply more useful
embeds
Interesting thing that happened while I was away: Facebook posts became embeddable by all [https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2013/08/21/embedded-posts-now-available-to-everyone/] . For example: [Post](https://www.facebook.com/adamtinworth/posts/10153129669970456) by [Adam Tinworth](https://www.facebook.com/adamtinworth).That’s one heck of a potential resource
Channel 4 news ran a big investigation into Facebook Likes [http://www.channel4.com/news/facebook-likes-hacking-fan-data-internet-how] last week: > As Facebook has grown to 1.15 billion users, gaining “likes” or fans, the social network has become a valuable marketing opportunity for companies. One social intelligence company put the value
embeds
Today in “about bloomin’ time” news: Instagram introduces web embeds [http://blog.instagram.com/post/55095847329/introducing-instagram-web-embeds]. Up until now, using an Instagram image in your article or post involved downloading it and adding it into your CMS. Now, you just embed it with a tiny chunk of HTML. The
APIs
Marco Arment has used the demise of Google Reader to explore how Google has changed since the rise of Facebook [http://www.marco.org/2013/07/03/lockdown] – and how the big three web players (Facebook, Twitter and Google) are no longer “webby” in the sense we once used the
data
Interesting argument that Facebook’s graph search is going to be inherently flawed, because Facebook’s data is dirty [http://stevecheney.posterous.com/graph-searchs-false-promise-and-the-con-of-th] : > It turns out as much as half of the links between objects and interests contained in FB are dirty—i.e. there is no true
brands
Richard Stacy [http://richardstacy.com/2012/12/13/just-because-something-works-doesnt-mean-that-it-is-working/] : > I was using this point to illustrate the main theme of my presentation – namely that we now have two worlds: the world of the audience and the world of the individual […] Up until this point there has only ever been
