From Holler.com Walking home from the fourth annual f8 conference earlier this week I kept wondering why I hadn’t gone over to the massive Sean Parker/Spotify after party. Over the past few years, Facebook’s f8 after party was an opportunity to schmooze with people of all levels within the company. This year however, the “A-List” [...]
Facebook ads don’t work
Joseph Perla writes that Facebook ads don’t work because it’s the wrong platform for advertising People go to Facebook to interact with their friends. It is fundamentally different from the ad platform that is Google. People go to Google to find something they need, possibly ready to buy, which a good percentage of the time [...]
How Facebook Divided the Web
Adam Rifkin at TechCrunch has a great post on how Facebook has divided the internet. Reliability issues aside, there’s a deeper principle at stake here. Facebook has divided the Web into two: the Web with Facebook (your friends), and the Web without Facebook (people cooler than your friends). Our friends are who we are interested [...]
Rewired for the digital age (and that’s not necessarily a good thing)
From the New York Times Sam Crocker, Vishal’s closest friend, who has straight A’s but lower SAT scores than he would like, blames the Internet’s distractions for his inability to finish either of his two summer reading books. “I know I can read a book, but then I’m up and checking Facebook,” he says, adding: [...]
HBR: Ten Reasons to Stop Apologizing for Your Online Life
Harvard Business Review lists ten reasons to stop trying to justify having a blog, using Twitter, and posting some photos to Flickr. When you commit to being your real self online, you discover parts of yourself you never dared to share offline. When you visualize the real person you’re about to e-mail or tweet, you [...]
The Fat Darrell Sandwich
Last Thursday I was watching Rutgers play football and I saw a segment on the Fat Darrell Sandwich. It was stunned and amazed by a sandwich that is made from chicken fingers, mozzarella sticks, French fries, marinara sauce, and assorted lettuce and tomatoes. Yes, that’s what I said, a sandwich with all of that fun [...]
The Social Impact of Facebook and Twitter
The New York Times has a good article on the impact that Facebook and Twitter are having on culture today. Social scientists have a name for this sort of incessant online contact. They call it “ambient awareness.” It is, they say, very much like being physically near someone and picking up on his mood through [...]
