"Nearly a year ago—in the course of cajoling people into joining the ubiquitous social network—I marveled at Facebook's astonishing growth rate: The site had just signed up its 150 millionth member, and about 370,000 people were joining every day. "At this rate," I wrote, "Facebook will grow to nearly 300 million people by this time next year." I confess, though, that I didn't think it was possible for the site to keep growing at that rate. Every hot Web site begins to fade at some point, and back then, the tech world was enamored of an upstart that was gaining lots of attention from celebrities and the media—Twitter. Even Facebook seemed scared of the micro-blogging site. In June, it redesigned its user pages to display updates as quickly as Twitter does, a move that prompted a barrage of threats to quit."
- Schadenfreude
from Bookmarklet
"Here come the numbers: worldwide Facebook is clocking up 200 billion page views a month, with 350 million users globally logging into the site. When it comes to the site's online chat function, 1.6 billion messages are sent every single day and 2.5 billion photos uploaded a month (around a thousand a second). Facebook is also now hitting 23 million unique users a month in the UK, with each of those people logging on spending around 25 minutes on the website a day."
- Schadenfreude
Plus: Farmville actually has a revenue model ;)
- Schadenfreude
Amazing! How much bandwidth is that going to be? :|
- Marco Pivetta
Almost every FB apps send something to Wall, the privacy configuration of published elements is not supported on every app. I think it has to be e feature that has to work "out of the box" with every applications! What do you think?
"Some of the larger developers, while not enthusiastic about the changes, have expressed hope that they will bring about better engagement in the long run. But how are the smaller developers reacting to the changes?"
- Mitchell McKenna
from Bookmarklet
Changes include: More use of your email address, notifications will be removed, Open Graph API (any website can be a FaceBook Page), improved Insights page, and more.
- Mitchell McKenna