The Nine Surprising Companies That Make More Money Online Than Facebook (and Google)
Facebook has more users than any service in the world, as they slowly close in on a billion. But when it comes to revenue, many old and new companies are generating more revenue in the digital world than Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg Asks Facebook Users to Save Facebook by Drinking
MENLO PARK, Calif. (The Borowitz Report)—After Facebook’s shares plummeted in after-hours trading today, Facebook C.E.O. Mark Zuckerberg issued the following personal letter to all nine hundred million Facebook users: http://nyr.kr/MN1Pek
“Facebook only makes money if people click on its ads. Do you know what Facebook ads are? They’re those things on your Facebook page that you have never clicked on even once.
But at Facebook we’re looking to change that. After doing extensive market research, we learned that there is one time when people actually do click on Facebook ads: when they’re drunk. This is the same business model that iTunes is based on. I’m sure a few of you have had the experience of using Facebook late at night, only to wake up and find that you’ve gotten seven auto-insurance quotes or enrolled as a criminal-justice major at the University of Phoenix.
Why am I sharing this information with you? Simple. If you want to save Facebook—and I know that you do—I need you to start drinking now.”
Wow… just… wow….
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Facebook Monitors Your Chats for Criminal Activity [REPORT]
Facebook and other social platforms are watching users’ chats for criminal activity and notifying police if any Facebook and other social platforms are watching users’ chats for criminal activity and notifying police if any suspicious behavior is detected, according to a report.
The screening process begins with scanning software that monitors chats for words or phrases that signal something might be amiss, such as an exchange of personal information or vulgar language.
The software pays more attention to chats between users who don’t already have a well-established connection on the site and whose profile data indicate something may be wrong, such as a wide age gap. The scanning program is also “smart” — it’s taught to keep an eye out for certain phrases found in the previously obtained chat records from criminals including sexual predators.
If the scanning software flags a suspicious chat exchange, it notifies Facebook security employees, who can then determine if police should be notified.
Whoa: 22% of All the World’s Web Pages Reference Facebook
Revealing stat of the day: 22 percent of web pages contain Facebook URLs. At this point, in other words, more than a fifth of all web pages in the world — 242 million of 1.3 billion — reference the Mark Zuckerberg Production.
This is per an analysis conducted by the researcher Matthew Berk, who used data for the project gathered by Common Crawl, a Google-type web-crawling tool. The data accounted for the nearly 1.3 billion URLs the tool has crawled so far in 2012.
» via The Atlantic
Whoa.
Source: The Atlantic
358 DAY WEEKEND: 'The Boy Kings' Author Katherine Losse On Life At Facebook: 'It Was Like Mad Men'
Fifty-first Facebook employee Katherine Losse has published a tell-all that details life inside the social network in its first six years.
“The Boy Kings,” based on Losse’s experience at Facebook between 2005 and 2010, recounts Mark Zuckerberg’s leadership quirks, Facebook’s privacy foibles,…
Source: The Huffington Post
Why School Administrators Should Embrace the Social Web
By encouraging administrators to become learner-leaders, to use social media connect with each other, share best practices and experiment, Canadian school principal George Couros is leading by example, exhortation, and instigation the people who are supposed to be leading our schools into the future. He created and regularly contributes to the website that serves as an online gathering place especially for school principals, Connected Principals, and has blogged in detail about why and how school administrators should be using social media in practical ways in their schools — linking in this one compendium post to a dozen of his specific blog posts. In a post titled “My Digital Footprint,” Couros details how he uses Posterous, Twitter, Diigo, Facebook, blogs, Flickr, YouTube, and Prezi (for those who want to see what George is bookmarking, check out his Diigo Public Library. In this video, I talked with Couros about why administrators should embrace the internet instead of fearing it, and about several of the projects he and other connected principals have been cooking up. Here are a couple of excerpts but George is doing fascinating work and you’ll want to check out the full interview below:
Many schools we see block Twitter and Facebook. And what they do is they actually encourage kids to use their own device for unfiltered access. When [students] come into our school districts and they have wi-fi enabled on their phones, they’re actually having a filtered version and we’re ensuring their safety.
The more we can get people involved in what’s happening in the classroom and the learning, the better students are going to do. And that’s a proven fact. Number one impact on student learning is parent reinforcing the learning happening at school. So if we can open that window through blogging, Twitter, Facebook — that’s what we want to do.
