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facebook platform

Facebook's new profile: "Orwellian"

Welcome to the Silicon Valley hype cycle: One year, and you're over. That seems to be the consensus on Facebook's vaunted platform, whose one-year anniversary went largely unremarked. The company itself didn't blog about it until today, and sources tell us an open-bar party Facebook held in Palo Alto was low-key to the point of despair. It can't have helped that Google was throwing a massive party in San Francisco the same day to close out its conference for developers. How different a scene from a year ago, when the F8 launch event of Facebook Platform won comparisons of the company to Microsoft and of founder Mark Zuckerberg to Bill Gates. More »

Feature

5:00 PM on Mon Jun 2 2008
By Owen Thomas
2,853 views, 17 comments

Latest by n/a: I don't understand the hoopla around Facebook. The applications are annoying. The site is annoying, and it really doesn't do much for me. What's even more annoying is Zuck is considered this genius, and lets face it.. more »

data junkie

Facebook revealed as Canadian social network

For all the buzz Facebook enjoys in its hometown, the social network, oddly enough, is more popular up north, travel website Gridskipper reveals in a new map. Forget the stereotype of Facebook as being for college kids. Really, it's for Canadians. Toronto is the #1 local network by number of Facebook members; Vancouver, #3. Calgary, Montreal, Edmonton, and Halifax round out the top 20. Another fact that leaps off the map: Facebook's near-nonexistence outside the English-speaking world, which you can also see in this earlier Valleywag map. That explains its hiring plans for international business-development types. First, Canada; next, the world.

8:59 AM on Tue Jul 10 2007
By Owen Thomas
950 views, 2 comments

Latest by DeltaGuy: Possibly, although College students now tend to list two networks. Personally, I have my College network listed as my Primary Network, with my regional network listed as a Secondary Network. more »

tagged

Social spamming

TIM FAULKNER — Tagged, yet another social network, has turned the popularity of engaging friends on the web into a modified phishing and spamming technique by harvesting webmail contacts. Apparently, the "phisher" has been using this technique since October 2006, but invitations from "members" have just begun arriving across this desk. Despite early criticism of the practice on the web, Tagged continues to use the deceptive practice unabated. More »

10:42 AM on Tue May 29 2007
By Tim Faulkner
957 views, 7 comments

snacky or flacky

Snacky or Flacky, round 1: Startup edition

Let the games begin! Vote in the first round of "Snacky or Flacky," where 16 PR folks will enter, but only one will win! First up are two startup publicists, Carlos Odio of shopping search ShopWiki and Paula Gould of MySpace killer TagWorld. More »

8:01 AM on Tue May 2 2006
By ndouglas
245 views, Comment

palopia

Trent Bigelow's non-autistic network: Interview with Palopia's founder

"Social software sucks," a developer told me this weekend, "because it makes people autistic." Society arises naturally from interaction, not a friends list — and forcing it into the latter makes users act autistic. Palopia — a pre-beta social network so new that even Michael Arrington hasn't called them yet — promises to fix that. More »

5:17 PM on Mon May 1 2006
By ndouglas
199 views, 2 comments

facebook

Fakin' it: The Law of Fabricated Returns

Hey, entrepreneurs! In the New Boom, anything but explosive growth is unacceptable. Take a tip from three leading dot-coms and cash in on the Law of Fabricated Returns. More »

11:00 AM on Thu Apr 27 2006
By ndouglas
146 views, Comment

tom anderson

MySpace Tom on Yahoo 360: Too good to be true

It can't be real — for one, Tom can spell — but the Tom Anderson Yahoo 360 page (headline: "im really glad no one can all the scandalous adult groups i belong too !") sure is cute. And yes, the MySpace founder's friend list is packed with a full Asian chick collection (Tom just needs Pikachu to get a full set). A reader found the profile when "Tom" asked her out. She and her boyfriend think it may be real. But even Tom would be a bit more discreet. More »

8:01 AM on Thu Apr 27 2006
By ndouglas
256 views, 1 comment

Latest by Blackjack: The reader needs to have her boyfriend take a few candid snaps of her and submit them to Valleywag so the community can, um, assess her claims. more »

social network

How Wallop will be like the real world

Karl Jacob is taking Wallop out for a spinoff The not-so-hot social network just split from Microsoft as its own (VC-funded) company. TechCrunch blogger Michael Arrington (who's tried every social site this side of Adult Friend Finder) says he's seen some of Wallop's new offerings, and it's not just another Tagged.com or Yahoo 360. More »

8:34 AM on Wed Apr 26 2006
By ndouglas
176 views, 1 comment

linkedin

Everyone's Tom's friend at the office

BusinessWeek says it's found "MySpace for the Office." Most of us thought that's what LinkedIn was for. But the new social network site Visible Path wants the company, not the worker, to pay for service. More »

11:49 AM on Tue Apr 18 2006
By ndouglas
129 views, Comment

orkut

What's my social site? A handy guide to segregation

The New York Times (they are so loveable today!) features Orkut, Google's you're-nobody-til-somebody-loves-you social network invaded by Brazilians in 2004. Over 2 of every 3 Orkut users are registered as Brazilians, and if you trust some massaged numbers, nearly every regular Internet user in Brazil has a profile. More »

4:58 PM on Mon Apr 10 2006
By ndouglas
1,098 views, Comment

friendster

Get rich: goof off!

Wired News runs a trend story (journalism rule #42: three weak stories make a trend story) on antisocial networking. The tipping point: Full-blown parody site Snubster. It's the Hot New Joke (and by "new" I mean "dated as 'I'm Rick James, bitch'") that's turning into a healthy little community. It's not the first joke-cum-business. More »

10:45 AM on Wed Apr 5 2006
By ndouglas
121 views, Comment

buyouts

Alloy buys Sconex for high school hegemony

Another day, another social network site acquisition. This time, says a reader, it's run by at least one MIT kid who might get some schadenfreude if Facebook falls flat on its, um, face. More »

1:37 PM on Tue Apr 4 2006
By ndouglas
256 views, Comment

social network

Isolatr: the anti-social network

The joke dot-com du jour (no, not Tagged, this one knows it's a joke) is isolatr, which promises to hide you from other people. Best gag is the "getting lucky" error page. More »

11:17 AM on Mon Mar 13 2006
By ndouglas
341 views, 1 comment

social network

XuQa: The little social network that could

"VCs won't invest in XuQa," said bizblog alarm:clock about the youth-centered social network site. Well, a little social butterfly just told me that XuQa raised some VC cash (dunno from whom) along with its friends-and-family fundraiser. The grand total? A whopping $300k. More »

9:46 AM on Fri Mar 10 2006
By ndouglas
184 views, Comment

social network

Wouldn't you fund XuQa?

xuqa.jpgThe social network market may be crowded as hell, and XuQa may be just another teen-hungry wannabe orgy, but how could anyone turn down a business plan like this (run after they got a round of user funding): More »

5:23 PM on Thu Mar 9 2006
By ndouglas
208 views, 3 comments

google

Morning Google rumor: social bookmarking

Google plans to launch social bookmarking, according to an inside source. Sure, it shouldn't be a surprise (they could just tweak the Search History feature), so the big question is whether it'll suck. More »

6:30 AM on Fri Feb 24 2006
By ndouglas
631 views, 1 comment

google

Why Google won't buy Friendster

There's a rumor of Google offering (again) to buy Friendster, but what could Google possibly gain from that? Plenty has changed since Google's first offer of $30 million. Five reasons that Friendster is a rotten piece of flipmeat. More »

12:32 AM on Thu Feb 9 2006
By ndouglas
199 views, Comment

friendster

Friendster buys more friends

sad-friendster.jpgFriendster picked up yet another round of funding from Kleiner Perkins, adding to the pile of cash that KP, Benchmark Capital, and Battery Ventures have sunk into the dying social site. No one funding Friendster wants to admit it, but Myspace and Facebook have demolished Friendster's chances of ever turning a profit. And if some conglomerate were foolish enough to buy it? At this point, there'd be so many investors to pay off that the founders will never see a dime. More »

9:43 AM on Thu Feb 2 2006
By ndouglas
2,889 views, 1 comment

Latest by People Paula: Friendster is old news. Valleywag is new, crispy & refreshing. Prepare to be commented on.... more »