Who owns Facebook?
Bet you didn’t know Bono was a shareholder?
Oh and South Africa’s own Naspers / Media24 owns nearly 30% of DST which owns 10% of Facebook so that makes them roughly 3% owners!
So, Facebook’s Zuckerberg is Time’s Person of the Year
Here’s the bit on privacy:
“When it comes to privacy, it’s entirely possible that Zuckerberg will turn out not to be wrong, just prescient. Social norms change. People hated Facebook’s News Feed when it was introduced in 2006. They thought it was creepy and intrusive. Zuckerberg stood his ground, and now Facebook is unimaginable without it. He moved the chains, and we went with him, setting up our defense that much farther toward the end zone. “The world is changing,” Cox says. “When caller ID came out, people went psycho. You know, because, Oh my God, now people are going to know I’m calling them! This is terrible! I’m going to end up being tracked, and Big Brother and Orwell and all that! The reality is now you won’t pick up a call unless you know who’s calling you.”
Read the full article: Mark Zuckerberg - Person of the Year 2010 - TIME
Interesting conspiracy-theory footnote: Seems like Wikileaks honcho Julian Assange was actually voted as person of the year, and Time swung the vote in favour of Zuckerberg. I wonder how true that is?
Zynga (that’s the Farmville, Frontierville folks) moves 1 Petabyte Of Data Daily and adds 1,000 new servers a week!
Source: TechCrunch
Misleading headline of the week goes to Techcrunch…
This is what it says: “Naspers Buys 28.7% Of Facebook, Zynga Investor And ICQ Owner DST”
So, as a South African I read this and thought, “Whoah! This is a BIG DEAL - little ol’ SA company buys 28% of FACEBOOK - nice move”.
But, then I read the article: http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/14/naspers-dst/
Source: TechCrunch
It’s official - Facebook has 500 million users!
Facebook has 60,000 servers
Doubling their capacity in 6 months since November 2009.
Facebook Server Count: 60,000 or More « Data Center Knowledge
Source: datacenterknowledge.com
Docs.com launches. Will you use it?
This seems a bit premature to me. What do you think?
Source: docs.com
Facebook Shuts Down Facebook Lite
I told you so, last year already. It took ‘em 7 months. See here.
News via Facebook Shuts Down Facebook Lite
Source: allfacebook.com
Foursquare: It's the Twitter of 2010
2008 was the year of Facebook.
2009 was the year of Twitter.
I predict 2010 will be the year Foursquare makes it’s mark as an established part of the social network furniture. (That’s of course if Facebook doesn’t outsmart them with by launching a compelling location-based bolt-on.)
Check these stats out.
Source: twitter.com
Nestlé has social media egg on it’s face
Big corps need to tread carefully when attempting to throw the book at consumers online. Civil web democracy easily slips into anarchy.
Full story: Nestlé’s “no logo” policy triggers Facebook revolt
Source: socialmediatoday.com
Facebook now the most popular site in the U.S.
Why am I not surprised at all?
Facebook ousts Google as most popular U.S. site | VentureBeat
Source: digital.venturebeat.com
“Facebook serves 260 billion page views per month. That’s more than six million page views per minute, or a staggering 37.4 trillion page views in a year.”
via Facebook boasts 11 times more page views than MySpace, 59 times more than Twitter | Royal Pingdom
Source: royal.pingdom.com
