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There were many Facebooks, this one just did it better.

Found this nugget in a blog post that Fred Wilson recently wrote about Facebook's newsfeed patent. This may be well known but it was news to me, you never hear about competitors in the early days. Would love to know more about that. I guess I'll have to wait for the Facebook movie starring Jesse Eisenberg and Justin Timberlake (http://bit.ly/e7dtU)...I'm sure it ... read more

Amplify’d from www.avc.com via Google Reader
I was chatting this past week with a tech journalist who was in college when Facebook launched. She was not at Harvard but at another ivy league school. She told me that there were “facebooks” launching all over the ivy league that year. Facebook out executed everyone and took the market. That’s how it is done. But they did not come up with the idea that “we should take a facebook and put it online”. They simply did it better.Read more at www.avc.com
 

Facebook Granted Patent on the News Feed - This Could Be Very Big

Read Write Web article notes that "Nick O'Neill at AllFacebook found the patent first and says it could be "one of the most significant social web patents" in a decade." URL:  www.readwriteweb.com

Calacanis: “Google Buzz is brilliant, Facebook just lost half its value.”

@GeorgeDearing pointed me to this blog post by jason calacanis - the ultimate contrarian and long time Facebook naysayer... URL:  jasoncalacanis.posterous.com

“What’s the ROI of putting your pants on in the morning?”

I laughed pretty hard when I read this. You can hear the frustration that many people have with regard to social media metrics. Its clear now that corporate money is beginning to flow into social media and as the volume is turned up, so will the measurement requirements...and the old (or in this case, new) ROI conversation. One exec noted in the article that he w... read more

Amplify’d from www.mediapost.com
“What’s the ROI of putting your pants on in the morning? You do it because you look like a douche bag if you walk out of the house without them in the morning. There are specific results derived from campaigns.”Read more at www.mediapost.com
 

P&G to Twitter: “You’re old school media”

There's been more chatter this week about Twitter falling short for marketers than I can remember and it won't help them that P&G has now defined Twitter as a "broadcast", one to many vehicle for the rest of the Ad/Marketing world. Truth is, Twitter has helped perpetuate this idea with all the talk about becoming "the plumming" in addition to creating a megaphone... read more

Amplify’d from ventureblog.com

Perhaps as interesting as P&G’s love of Facebook, was its skepticism about Twitter. They described Twitter as “much more like television than one might think.” To P&G, Twitter is a great broadcast medium — it is best for one to many communications that are short bursts of timely information — but as good as it is for timely information, the P&G folks do not view it as particularly relevant to what they are doing on the brand building and advertising side. For those things that Proctor & Gamble thinks are most interesting and important, they do not believe that Twitter will ever approach the value they can get out of a Google or Facebook. But they are open to looking at other alternatives that will have more of the engagement and brand building attributes that they hope to exploit in Facebook.

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Facebook boasts 11 times more page views than MySpace, 59 times more than Twitter (via @ jacobm)

Wowza. Very informative read at the source... URL:  royal.pingdom.com

Masterful Grafitti Artist (Video)

His process is manic, intense, and imprecise but at the same time smooth and dance-like. The final piece is cool but frankly, the brief physical storm it takes to get there is what really resonated with me…so cool. Enjoy.

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#%*@#! The top 10 tech ‘fails’ of 2009 - CNN.com

Digg Launches Facebook Connect

Pretty solid endorsement from one of the top Facebook blogs…

Amplify’d from www.insidefacebook.com
Nearly a year after Digg announced it would support Facebook Connect, the integration has finally gone live. Now, Digg users can login, share, and find and invite friends through Facebook Connect.
Overall, Digg’s Facebook Connect implementation looks great. It takes advantage of all the key features of Facebook Connect - authentication, content distribution, and enhanced social context - which should increase the quality and authenticity of Diggs and Comments on the siteRead more at www.insidefacebook.com
 

Facebook, Firefox, Twitter Lead App, Web Usage

The data (sample sz. about 75,000) suggests to me that Amplify is clearly playing in the right sandbox…exciting. Chrome’s growth though not surprising is impressive.

Amplify’d from gigaom.com
Facebook and Mozilla Firefox are the applications used most across different platforms, according to data collected by Wakoopa, a software-oriented social network.

Twitter clients Tweetdeck and Twhirl are continuing to see strong usage and growth, much like Twitter. The most popular newcomer among Twitter clients, as well as overall apps, for the Mac is Destroy Twitter. These numbers are in sync with web usage data reported by others research companies as well.

Google Chrome is making a significant impact on the browser market, with 15 percent usage across all countries and age groups
one thing that struck me was how people below 30 are completely ambivalent towards Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and prefer using alternative browsers
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