Unless you’ve been on the moon last week (or 50ft under waiting for the end of the world) you must have read this thoughtful meditation from NYT magazine on Twitter, Facebook, ambient intimacy and so called awareness tools. It’s a good read, especially for people who don’t use these tools. The article tells the story [...]
Following the previous chart on the most fanned pages on facebook i wanted to quickly share some unstructured thoughts. Jonathan rightly asked “what the VALUE is in being a fan, if any?” The short answer if you cannot be arsed to read the whole post is not much. I’ve looked around quite a lot of [...]
Asi has become a fan of….fan pages. So he gone and looked at the 100 most fanned people and ‘things’. (Note: due to serious shortage of time, for this report I don’t offer any analysis, just an overview of the facebook stars. More on this to follow). Two men, two American heroes, clearly dominate the [...]
If you need another sign that facebook apps have lost their mojo check out this interesting data: Facebook applications trends report #1 (November 2007) 36K unique visits in 10 days since publication 529 diggs 348 Delicious bookmarks 20 comments 18 trackbacks Facebook applications trends report #2 (March 2008) 4200 unique visits in 10 days since [...]
As some of you kindly reminded me, it’s about time to write another Facebook applications trends report. While the first report looked at the 100 most popular apps according to number of installs, this time I wanted to focus the analysis on active users. Thanks again for the extremely useful Adonomics for the data that [...]
I couldn’t say it better than Iain and Richard but I want to add few random thoughts on the current neurotic herd-like rush of brands and marketers to get a presence on facebook. It feels like a deja-vu from the past years, first myspace then second life – like flies to honey – I guess [...]