A causa di un bug di Facebook Connect questa notte metà dei siti internet del pianeta, per pochi minuti, sono stati rediretti a una pagina di errore su Facebook.
For a short period of time, there was a bug that redirected people logging in with Facebook from third party sites. The issue was quickly resolved and Login with Facebook is now working as usual.
BuzzFeed racconta le storia delle 25 persone che per prime hanno creduto in Facebook (e ne hanno fatto la storia) a nove anni dalla sua nascita.
Danny Sullivan analizza Graph Search il motore di ricerca semantico di Facebook per scoprire collegamenti tra persone, fotografie, interessi, video e luoghi attraverso domande in linguaggio naturale e catalogati sulla base dei rapporti di amicizia.
Per il momento rigorosamente in beta e solo per alcune ricerche mirate in lingua inglese.
Ritorno al passato per la Timeline di Facebook. Una colonna e più pulizia. Si fa per dire.
Per ora si godono la novità in Nuova Zelanda.
Non c'è nessuna fine della democrazia su Facebook - qualunque cosa voglia dire quando si parla di un'azienda privata che risponde ai suoi azionisti sulla base di logiche di mercato - e nessun complotto.
Il più affollato social network del pianeta ha compreso che il sistema di votazione sinora in atto per consultare gli utenti sulle variazioni alle policy semplicemente non funzionava. E non funzionava perché a nessuno interessava partecipare alle votazioni.
Dunque si torna alla cara e vecchia cassetta dei suggerimenti.
Si chiamerà Facebook West il nuovo campus a Menlo Park quartier generale dell'omonimo social network.
Progettato da Frank Gehry dovrebbe prendere vita nella primavera del 2013. Un immenso open space ripiegato su se stesso abbellito da un parco che sorgerà sopra il tetto.
Facebook ha realizzato una pagina dedicata agli atleti che parteciperanno ai prossimi Giochi Olimpici di Londra. Explore London 2012.
Businessweek racconta il successo di Facebook attraverso il carattere, le intuizioni e la filosofia hacker del suo fondatore.
In 2006, when he was 22, Mark Zuckerberg gave up writing computer code to focus on managing his rapidly growing startup. Like Jim Brown retiring from football at 29 or E.M. Forster abandoning the novel in his forties, the prodigy who programmed the very first version of Facebook was walking away from his transcendent talent. Or so it seemed. A few years later, Zuckerberg began setting annual tests of discipline for himself, vowing to wear a tie to work every day in 2009, learn Mandarin in 2010, and personally kill any animal he ate in 2011. Earlier this year, unbeknown to all but a few friends and co-workers, he gave himself a new challenge with unknown ramifications for what is soon to be Silicon Valley's newest public company. Mark Zuckerberg pledged to return to his roots and spend time programming each day.
Zuckerberg's true skill has always been a facility for hacking. That's a foundational verb at Facebook, to hack. In its offering prospectus, Facebook repeatedly describes its corporate culture as "the hacker way"; on its new campus, a 57-acre office park abutting San Francisco Bay in Menlo Park, Calif., there's a building with a big sign that reads "The Hacker Company." Those slogans don't mean Facebook is teaming up with Anonymous or breaking into NORAD. They're talking about achieving a goal in an unconventional way.
Zuckerberg and his crew have made a series of high-risk moves-five hacks that have changed Silicon Valley forever-that were far more daring than wearing a hoodie to an IPO roadshow. Instead of allowing himself to be replaced by a more seasoned chief executive officer early on, Zuckerberg consolidated his authority with bylaws that gave him an incontestable voting majority on the company's board. He preserved that power by rebuffing repeated acquisition offers. Instead of rushing to go public, Facebook delayed its offering well past the usual ripening date of other successful startups. Even conventional hacking-manipulation of computer code-is executed in an unusual way at Facebook.
Every Zuckerberg hack is in the service of an overarching vision: that technology and online authenticity can bring people together. And the easier it is for people to find one another, the more time they'll spend online, sharing photos of their kids, their moods, what they read, who they date, and on and on with all the people they have met in their life (or, if they neglect their privacy settings, with the whole world). Neither Zuckerberg nor other Facebook executives would comment for this story because of the quiet period mandated by the Securities and Exchange Commission before going public. But just as Jobs evangelized for simple, elegant devices, and Gates extolled the productivity-enhancing power of software, Zuckerberg has long argued his case to an often skeptical audience. "I think Mark Zuckerberg is 'The One,' " says Roger McNamee, a longtime Valley venture capitalist whose firm, Elevation Partners, is an investor in Facebook. "Like Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, he has set a tone that everyone else has lined up behind."
Facebook è stato lanciato nel 2004, ma com'era internet appena 8 anni fa?
L'Atlantic racconta un web pre social network molto diverso da oggi.
Back in 2004,
- the web had some 50 million sites. (Today, it has more than 600 million.)
- the most popular brand on the World Wide Web was Microsoft's MSN.
- Google was the fifth most popular brand on the World Wide Web, ranking below Yahoo and AOL.
- people still talked about the "World Wide Web."
- "blog" -- defined as "a Web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments and often hyperlinks" -- was chosen as Merriam-Webster's word of the year.
- Britney Spears was Google's most popular search query -- followed by Paris Hilton, Christina Aguilera, and Pamela Anderson. (Yes! Pamela Anderson!)
- Janet Jackson's Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction was the most searched term to date on Lycos.
- people still used Lycos.
- The Howard Dean campaign was pioneering grassroots organizing and fundraising on the Internet.
Time magazine was recommending Friendster.com as one of the best websites of the year.
the BBC was recommending Encyclopedia.com as one of the web's "most useful websites." (Wikipedia launched in early 2001.)
- trojan viruses were a pernicious problem.
- Mapquest was the Internet's third most-searched brand name.
- MySpace, having launched in January 2003, hoped to become the web's dominant social network. (Which it was for a while, if you recall.)
- Friendster, launched in 2002, hoped to become the same. (Which it did not.)
- The brand-new photo-sharing site Flickr boasted about its "outrageously simple" drag-and-drop capabilities. ("Post to your weblog!")
- you could still ask questions of Jeeves.
- "Wallpaper' ranked number one on Google's list of most searched-for "tech stuff."
- Kazaa ranked number two.
Con l'imminente quotazione a Wall Street, BuzzFeed pubblica una lista di 27 oggetti fighi che costano tanto quanto un'azione di Facebook.