Posts tagged facebook
How much we will be tweeting by January 2011 (chart)
May 7th
Twitter processed 1.76 billion tweets in April.
Facebook as a single point of failure for the Web
Apr 29th
If Facebook has its way (and it usually does), over the coming years a ton of websites and online services will become part of the open graph that Facebook is promoting , with Facebook firmly planted in the middle. The concept is very interesting, and the potential for this web of data from a wide variety of sources is enormous
Mercurius Pink Elegant WordPress Theme
Apr 27th
Here is an elegant style theme in pinkish color scheme with lots of white space. Feature post is put in between header and content area, above the fold with large space which will grab the attention of you readers. This theme comes with theme options too to easily edit the feature post category, Twitter and enable banner ad.
Peeking behind the scenes of the world’s largest sites
Apr 14th
Do you want to know more about how big websites like Twitter, Facebook, Hotmail and others handle the technical challenges of dealing with massive amounts of visitors? Well, you’re in luck, because many of those sites and services have engineering and/or developer blogs that share plenty of information about the challenges they have to deal with and the tools they use.
Facebook and Twitter, hand in hand in the news
Mar 24th
We wanted to share an interesting observation about the two social networks that are dominating our collective mindshare these days: Facebook and Twitter .
Facebook may have surpassed Google in the US, but what about other countries?
Mar 19th
There was a significant amount of media attention earlier this week around a report from traffic monitoring company Hitwise that claimed Facebook now has more traffic than Google in the US . First of all it’s worth noting that Hitwise only compared Facebook with Google Search… So Facebook didn’t really surpass Google, if you read the fine print. All of Google’s sites counted together (including sites like YouTube, Blogger, etc), would still crush Facebook in terms of sheer traffic.
Google’s competition: Most of the Internet
Mar 5th
We all know Google is huge and their wide range of services are bound to have a fair share of competitors, but you may be surprised just how wide-ranging Google considers its competition to be. Here below we have included a quote from Google’s latest SEC filing with some very interesting information about what Google has to say about its competition. (SEC filings are public financial documents and contain a wealth of information for those willing to wade through them
Is Facebook secretly planning an internet-wide payment platform?
Mar 1st
Is Facebook taking the first steps towards making itself an internet-wide payment platform? You may know that the company is working on something it calls Facebook Credits (it’s in beta). You can buy Facebook Credits with a credit card or Paypal, and then use these credits as a currency when buying virtual items from applications on the Facebook platform (Facebook apps)
