How Facebook has now become mainstream, almost pervasive, is a recurring thought after seeing three examples of how that is during the course of this weekend. The first example was a hand-written poster outside a used car dealer in Sandhurst proclaiming "See us on Facebook." If I hadn’t been driving my car at the time, [...]
Facebook in the mainstream
Published on January 9, 2011 · 7:14 pm UK · 14 comments
in Business, Communication, Marketing, Social Networks, Trends
Facebook dominates globally
Published on December 13, 2010 · 7:56 am UK · 17 comments
in Business, Communication, Europe, Social Media, Social Networks, Society, Trends, Web
Facebook is the dominant social network around the world according to the latest analysis by Vincenzo Cosenza, director at Digital PR in Rome, Italy, who has been tracking its growth over the past eighteen months or so. Even a cursory glance at the map above makes it clear when you see how much of that [...]
Read MoreFacebook supreme
Published on June 14, 2010 · 7:52 am UK · 23 comments
in Communication, Europe, Social Media, Social Networks, Society, Trends, Twitter, Web
Not only has Facebook gathered huge numbers of members – half a billion at the last count – but the social network has also become the number one social presence in many countries, displacing some home-grown domestic social networks. A glance at the world map of social networks 2010 you see above shows a clear [...]
Read MoreGoodbye Facebook?
Published on May 15, 2010 · 7:56 pm UK · 104 comments
[Update May 17: If you read this post before today, you might notice that the title now has changed with the addition of one extra character: the question mark. Reaction and comments since I published this post on May 15 have given me some pause to think, with one potential attractive-sounding alternative to a complete [...]
Read MoreFacebook is for brands – the careful ones
Published on November 10, 2009 · 9:38 pm UK · 31 comments
in Business, Communication, Marketing, Social Media, Social Networks, Society, Web
ReadWriteWeb published a detailed post today on research from Razorfish about online consumer behaviours with a strong focus on Twitter and Facebook. While the overall post makes for interesting reading and is very useful from a fact-finding perspective, what leapt at me from RWW’s page were two charts and a concise paragraph. First, the two [...]
Read MoreFriendfeed and Facebook: Trends already?
Published on August 15, 2009 · 8:17 am UK · 11 comments
Since the announcement earlier this week that Facebook is acquiring Friendfeed, Steve Rubel wonders whether he’s seeing a trend: […] I have seen an uptick in friend invitations on Facebook, with these individuals specifically saying they follow me on Friendfeed. Now I don’t know if this is a trend or not, but some others are [...]
Read MoreI like to think of Friendbook not Facefeed
Published on August 11, 2009 · 11:41 am UK · 9 comments
in Business, Communication, Innovation, Social Media, Social Networks, Technology, Web
Surprise news last night was Facebook’s acquisition of Friendfeed. Facebook – a giant among social networks – has grabbed the comparatively-tiny Friendfeed content-sharing service (which has just 12 employees) as the means to accelerate Facebook’s product development plans, according to some opinion in Silicon Valley. Others say it’s all to do with further refining where [...]
Read MoreMilestones in Iran
Published on June 21, 2009 · 11:48 am UK · 15 comments
in Communication, Mainstream Media, Social Media, Social Networks, Society, Technology, Twitter, Web
While the mainstream media is proving its worth (and its mettle) in its reporting of fast-moving events in Iran, that parallel universe known as social media is a channel for huge volumes of comment and opinion, the type that is more local and niche and which typically doesn’t get the attention of the mainstream reporters. [...]
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