Some facts about facebook

This week was published the preliminary prospectus for facebook IPO. The table of content summarizes some numbers about facebook:  Registration Statement on Form S-1 via kwout And facebook’s goal:  Registration Statement on Form S-1 via kwout   Then I found this screenshot from FT Alphaville relevant about facebook user experience: FT Alphaville » Become Facebook’s [...]

No Facebook World Map

Station: The UnFacebook World via kwout Found via FlowingData.

Kashmir Hill – The Not-So Private Parts – Forbes via kwout Found via The Atlantic: What You Shouldn’t Post on Your Facebook Page If You Want a Job – Alexis Madrigal – Technology – The Atlantic

What Happens when You Dont Use Facebook for a Week Facebook via kwout

Facebook Outage on Dec. 16th

BBC reported a brief Facebook outage yesterday. I was just curious about the way Facebook communicated on the outage. I didn’t find any formal information on their blog for instance. I just found this 30 Min. gap of service in their Platform Live Status page: Platform Live Status – Facebook Developers via kwout

Facebook: The digital house of glass

Andre Breton the artist part of the surrealism group was dreaming to live in a house of glass. Today with Facebook, everybody has the ability to put their digital life in a House of Glass.

Data mining with Facebook

Alec Saunders published an interesting post that describes how to do some quick data mining with Facebook. The starting point is to click on the advertisers link at the bottom of any Facebook page. Follow the steps as described by Alec up to the audience choice. That’s where the data mining can be done. For [...]

Introduction to Facebook

Webware published a very good introduction to Facebook: Newbie’s guide to Facebook. This introduction gives you: A definition of what is FB The way to setup an account/Profile Advices on security/Privacy settings A definition of Poking and how to use it Advices on the way to share information with friends A short description of the [...]

The very serious Financial Times published on his web site a few days ago this call for advice: I work in an advertising agency and my boss (who is quite cool) has just asked to be my friend on Facebook. I feel invaded – I’m passionate about my work but want to keep it separate [...]