Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook Home A Wired Interview

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You really have to hand it to Mark Zuckerberg, I mean right! Home is perhaps a brilliant stroke. Essentially what it does is turn phones into Facebook phones.  This is a nice interview Wired conducted with him. From the interview…Mark. I believe the question asked here was, Why not just build a phone? I’ve always [...]

Why Hadoop Is the Future of the Database

Jeff Hammerbacher says that Facebook tried them all. And none of them did what the web giant needed them to do. Hammerbacher is the Harvard-trained mathematician Facebook hired in 2006. His job was to harness all the digital data generated by Mark Zuckerberg’s social network — to make sense of what people were doing on [...]

Facebook’s Graph Search: A Foursquare-Killer?

Okay, so unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past two weeks, you have probably heard of Facebook’s big announcement last January 15th: Graph Search. More than a new “search tool,” Facebook will now tap into its huge database of users interactions to power a search tool that will not simply provide you [...]

Facebook Graph Search Overview

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    An overview of the Facebook graph search Kelly Duval‘s insight: An overview of Facebook Graph search with screen shots and video See on www.socialmediasass.com Related articles Graph Search’s Dirty Promise and the Con of the Facebook “Like” – steve’s blog Facebook’s Graph Search Isn’t That Great | MIT Technology Review What Facebook Open [...]

Facebook’s Bold, Compelling and Scary Engine of Discovery: The Inside Story of Graph Search

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Beast had a birthday last week. The First Dog of social networking — live-in companion to Mark Zuckerberg and his bride, Priscilla Chan — turned two. The proud owners baked a cake for the Hungarian sheepdog and decided to throw an impromptu party. Naturally, when it came time to compile the guest list, the couple [...]

What’s Up With Whatsapp? Facebook Might Want To Buy It, That’s What

  Whatsapp, the multiplatform mobile messaging app that has been one of the runaway success stories for ad-free, paid services, has been in talks to be acquired by Facebook, according to sources close to the matter. We’re still digging around on potential price and other details about how advanced the deal is. But as mobile [...]

An Introduction to Facebook Mobile Ads

  Nearly 60 percent of Facebook users are mobile users, up from about 47 percent a year ago. With the Facebook adapting to this transition, the company has introduced new ways to buy ads that show up on mobile and reach this emerging audience. This article will walk you through the different mobile ads that [...]

Profound Shift In Zuckerberg’s Attitude

  Facebook stock opened up 22% this morning, after a very positive earnings report yesterday afternoon. Ask an analyst what went so well for Facebook, and you’ll hear three things: Facebook’s sales growth finally stopped decelerating. Ad growth is actually accelerating again. Facebook’s mobile business is much stronger than anyone dared expect. But the truth [...]

Google Just Bought Its Own Instagram

Five months after Facebook’s (FB) famous $1 billion Instagram purchase, Google (GOOG) is trying to get in on the photo-tweaking action too. The search giant has acquired Nik Software, the 17-year-old company behind photo-editing and filter app Snapseed. Though terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, it’s clearly not Instagram money. That said, Google is pouring [...]

Investors Are Salivating Over Zuckerberg’s Plans For Search. Here’s Why

See on Scoop.it – internetbillboards Facebook’s share price has rocketed up from $19.46 to $22.00 since Mark Zuckerberg talked at TechCrunch Disrupt Tuesday, and numerous sources in the investment community tell us it was his declaration that Facebook will tackle search that excited them most. Rather than incremental increases in revenue that better ad units [...]

Facebook Has A Big New Problem You Need To Worry About

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said several encouraging things when he spoke at a tech conference yesterday.One thing he didn’t address, however, is the rate at which Facebook’s desktop usage is declining in its most mature market–the U.S. Zuckerberg also didn’t comment on another ominous Facebook trend: The usage declines are most pronounced among those who [...]

‘Fund Me Maybe’ Is Tech World’s Parody of ‘Call Me Maybe’ [VIDEO]

Randi Zuckerberg, Facebook’s former marketing director and sister of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, recently channeled her inner Carly Rae Jepsen with a “Call Me Maybe” parody dubbed “Fund Me Maybe.” She and her band Feedbomb performed the spin-off live at the ThriveGulu charity event in San Francisco, infusing Jepsen’s chart-topping song with references to the [...]