Twitter is currently experiencing the push and pull of being a platform versus being a business. To be a business, to make money, they have to circle the wagons, reign in the use of its API, and be more like Facebook. Unfortunately, that’s counter to everything that makes Twitter great. It’s going to be fascinating [...]
Man, this weekend absolutely blew up on the news that Facebook had poached a bunch of Apple engineers to further develop their plans for a mobile phone platform. Also, strong rumors are now swirling they could acquire the Opera browser for $1 billion. Opera’s desktop market share isn’t that huge, but on the mobile side [...]
Facebook launched a camera app on Thursday for the iPhone, which is similar but different from Instagram. The new app lets you take photos, add filters to them, and share them on Facebook. So it sounds like Instagram and you may be asking, well, isn’t this the reason Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion? Yes, [...]
Pipe is a German company and they are about to release a peer-to-peer file sharing app within Facebook. Users can send files up to 1GB in size to another friend. Facebook is most importantly the friends list Pipe needs to get started. The team made a “tactical decision” to build on the enormous, pre-established network [...]
“Is there a way to do this without making it painfully apparent to him that he’s being diluted to 10%?” — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, in a letter to his attorney on cutting out co-founder Eduardo Saverin from the company. Business Insider got their hands on a letter written by a 20-year-old Zuckerberg and while [...]
Speaking of secrets and sharing, the great irony of Facebook is that it’s brought more people together than any other technology but simultaneously makes us more lonely. What Facebook has revealed about human nature—and this is not a minor revelation—is that a connection is not the same thing as a bond, and that instant and [...]
The Boston Phoenix has a lengthy cover story on the murder investigation of “Craigslist Killer’ Philip Markoff. I haven’t read it yet, but it sounds like it’ll be a great read. It includes some interesting side information about what happens when police subpoena Facebook to give up what it has on you, as relayed by The Atlantic Wire: As part of [...]
