8 posts and columns on Facebook Groups

Zwiggo Is a Collaboration Platform for Consumers, Not Businesses

in Social on November 2, 2011 at 1:43 pm PT

Between collaboration tools for businesses and personal productivity tools, is there an opportunity for someone to make a social toolset for personal groups? Enter Zwiggo.
Zwiggo

The Social Web's Big New Theme for 2011: Multiple Identities for Everyone!

in Social on January 1, 2011 at 9:47 am PT

Even as Facebook extended its dominance in 2010 to the point where it seems to have a social Web monopoly, it was a landmark year for social network competition. Where in the past, tech industry watchers derided new start-ups for launching “yet another social network,” an increasing number of users seem to be constructing multiple online presences that utilize the strengths of various platforms and networks.

Google Social Researcher Jumps Ship for Facebook

in Social on December 20, 2010 at 6:28 pm PT

Paul Adams, a senior user experience researcher at Google who was the company’s research lead for social, announced today he will be joining Facebook next year.

Facebook Acqhirees Make a Quick Mark on Its Products

in Social on November 23, 2010 at 5:00 am PT

Facebook has a well-defined M&A strategy of bringing in talent from young, small companies and shutting down their products. But there’s also a pattern emerging for what happens to that talent. Acqhired CEOs hold prominent roles on Facebook’s product team; nearly every recent Facebook product launch seems to have been introduced by an acqhired employee.

Liveblogging the Bing-Facebook Bromance: "Underdog" Search With a Little Help From Your Friends

in News on October 13, 2010 at 11:46 am PT

BoomTown motored on down to the Microsoft campus in Silicon Valley on a fabulously sunny day to liveblog the latest Bing event. The software giant is updating its search service, announcing deep integration–part of a deal announced last year–with Facebook. The theme, according to Microsoft SVP Yusuf Mehdi, quoting the Beatles, search with "a little help from your friends."

Facebook Adds More Group Control, Data Export, App Dashboard

in News on October 6, 2010 at 10:55 am PT

In the end, it wasn’t a revamped Events service that Facebook announced at its invite-only media event today. It wasn’t a “check-in” feature, a new iteration of Facebook Credits, a partnership with Skype or a showing of “The Social Network” with a frame-by-frame refutation by Mark Zuckerberg. In the end, it was a series of service enhancements–three, to be exact.

Fiascobook, Redux

in News on April 17, 2008 at 3:42 pm PT

The ability to control how much information is available to the public has long been one of Facebook’s core principles. It was this very feature, for example, that Facebook used to distinguish itself from other social networks back when it first launched. Of course, the ensuing years proved that protecting the privacy of its users [...]