facebook in comment and analysis
Dear silicon.com... young and old, clueless managers, life without Facebook
Comment Youngsters may be "tech savvy" but sending text messages doesn't come into most job descriptions and having a MySpace page or Facebook entry won't qualify you as a web designer either. Please send me fish for my Facebook Aquarium. [23 Aug 2007]
Leader: Should you ban Facebook?
Leader The rise and rise of social networking phenomenon Facebook has put the spotlight on how businesses should monitor and respond to staff use of such sites during the working day. It's just a fad," maybe a common response to putting in a social... [31 Aug 2007]
Legal Eye: Scrabble-Facebook row spells trouble
Comment Facebook's Scrabulous application has sparked a row between the social networking site and the owners of the Scrabble brand. Only a few weeks ago, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was forced to change the way the Beacon advertising system worked after... [29 Jan 2008]
Editor's Blog: The Facebook sweepstake
Comment When you meet friends or colleagues and have a few minutes to kill, take a punt on how long it takes for someone to mention Facebook. I say Facebook as the social networking phenomenon du jour but give yourself points for the mention of Bebo... [31 Jul 2007]
BlackBerry exec on women in tech, iPhones, Facebook - and finding the off switch
Comment We've got people who are carrying BlackBerrys who are using Facebook. Someone the other day told me that Facebook was banned at their school but she had a BlackBerry and suddenly she became the most popular person in school. [18 Mar 2008]
Social networking goes mainstream
AS Analysis Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg's meteoric rise from nowhere to Agenda Setters top spot proves that 2007 is the year of social networking. Panellist Michael Parsons, editor and site director of CNET.co.uk, made a strong case for Facebook. [12 Oct 2007]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Tech history repeats itself
Comment He then went on to complain these young candidates used texting and Facebook to communicate instead of email. The next phase of technology has prompted a repeat performance but this time texting and Facebook are the media being denigrated. [25 Feb 2008]
Leader: How and why?
AS Analysis Wunderkind Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, has walked away with this year's top Agenda Setter accolade, according to the aggregated votes from silicon.com's panel of experts. But, with Zuckerberg, has a massive tidal wave of social networking... [12 Oct 2007]
Leader: Who's setting tech's agenda this year?
Leader Wunderkind Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, has walked away with this year's top Agenda Setter accolade, according to the aggregated votes from silicon.com's panel of experts. But, with Zuckerberg, has a massive tidal wave of social networking... [15 Oct 2007]
Mark Zuckerberg
AS Profile Mark Zuckerberg - the fresh-faced founder and CEO of social networking site Facebook - has shot to the top of this year's silicon.com Agenda Setters list. Zuckerberg actually started work on Facebook while still a student at Harvard, and famously... [12 Oct 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 14.12.07
Round-Up We British may be rubbish at almost all sports, possess terrible dental hygiene and labour under outrageously high taxes, but by God there's one thing we are the best at in Europe - and that's frittering away what precious, ephemeral time we have... [14 Dec 2007]
LinkedIn CEO on 'grown up' social networking
Comment Do you have a Facebook account? During 2007, LinkedIn doubled in size in all of its major regions including Europe and signed up its millionth UK member in October, making Blighty the largest market outside the US.silicon.com spoke to LinkedIn CEO... [28 Feb 2008]
The Weekly Round-Up: 26.10.07
Round-Up The deal will give Microsoft a 1.6 per cent stake in Facebook. I think that no one has figured out the perfect formula for it," he said, raising his voice (we imagine) over the laughter as a Microsoft contract lawyer helped a Facebook marketing... [26 Oct 2007]
Blake Ross
AS Profile He famously joined Netscape as a 14-year-old intern and has recently sold his company Parakey - which takes desktop apps to the web - to Facebook. Still employed at Facebook, Ross is definitely one to watch. [12 Oct 2007]
Steve Ranger's Notebook: Wary of wikis? Cynical about Second Life?
Comment And there's your problem right there - whoever it was in the organisation that took the decision to ban Facebook (and probably YouTube and Second Life for good measure), it's the CIO taking the blame from the staff. [14 Jun 2007]
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