4 posts and columns on Funwall

What Was That You Were Saying About Growth Over Profits?

in News on October 10, 2008 at 10:00 am PT

Good thing Facebook is committed to growth over profits because according to the latest metrics from Hitwise Intelligence, growth is slowing. While traffic in the United Kingdom to the site did increase by 4 percent between August and September this year, it’s down from 50 percent over the same period last year.

Slide-ing into the Big Apple

in News on June 4, 2008 at 10:32 pm PT

In its ongoing bid to prove there is a robust and sustainable ad business in the social networking space, widgetmaker Slide opened a New York office and hired a big deal online ad exec. Of course, because it has to be hip, the office is in the always trendy West Village, instead of uptown on Madison Avenue.
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The Children's Hour: Facebook Apps Are for Toddlers (There, We Said It)

in News on October 9, 2007 at 11:37 am PT

Fine, call me a grumpy old lady, because I don’t want to pass around a toasty complex carbohydrate globally. Right now on Facebook, I have been trying to decide what to do near on two weeks or more, after receiving a “Hot Potato” tossed to me by my old boss, Washington Post Co. CEO and Chairman Don Graham. For those who don’t know what a digital Hot Potato is: It is an widget (also called a third-party app) created by a very nice-looking group of guys at a design outfit called Hungry Machine for the Facebook platform. “You have to pass it on and watch it travel around the world. 27,012 other people did!” With all due respect to Don Graham (who is a mentor of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, by the way), Hungry Machine and all world-trotting spuds, I don’t think so.