Archive for the 'Facebook News' Category
Facebook IPO Filing Coming Wednesday
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford January 31st, 2012 in business, Facebook IPO, Facebook News.What a long time coming this has been. It appears that Facebook is going to file for its IPO on Wednesday. According to IFR It is looking like they are starting with raising approximately $5 billion in this offering. Indications are that they are going to start small and then move up with 5 Billion [...]
Michael Jackson and Facebook: U Can’t Beat It
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford July 7th, 2009 in Facebook News.Here is a quick rundown of the final stats after today’s Michael Jackson Memorial service for the King of Pop. You were able to see users status updates that were entered on the CNN site and connected back to users facebook accounts. At one point in the morning users were posting Approx 6,000 status updates [...]
Facebook Launches Persian Version Amongst Iranian Unrest
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford June 18th, 2009 in Facebook News.Since the Iranian election last week, people around the world have increasingly been sharing news and information on Facebook about the results and its aftermath. Much of the content created and shared on Facebook related to these events has been in Persian – the native language of Iran – but the users have had to [...]
Facebook Stream Breaks Out of the Walled Dam
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford April 27th, 2009 in Facebook, Facebook News.Facebook has frequently been criticized for not allowing info out of the facebook eco-system for developers. Well it now looks like Facebook is going to change that starting today. You can see what they are saying below in 2 different blog posts from the facebook team. It will be interesting to see how websites & [...]
Facebook Bill of Rights
2 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford February 18th, 2009 in Facebook, Facebook News.There has been quite a stir in the past few days about facebook changing their terms and conditions. Many facebook users, bloggers and the media have hopped on the bandwagon and decided to give facebook some push back on their new restrictive terms and conditions that effectively gave facebook ownership of all content uploaded to [...]
Facebook Turns 5: Happy Birthday Facebook
4 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford February 3rd, 2009 in Facebook, Facebook News.Ahhh. Facebook is such a baby; it is just 5 years old and continues on it’s path for world domination. It is hard to believe that the site is only 5 years old tomorrow. In internet years that make it in its mid 20′s. The evolution of facebook and the rate of innovation and velocity [...]
Facebook Gifts: No More Missed Birthdays!
2 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford January 30th, 2009 in Facebook, Facebook Applications, Facebook News.Don’t you hate being late for friends’ birthdays? Well, as of today (in a limited rollout fashion) facebook is helping to put an end to “belated” birthdays on Facebook. Now, on your friend’s profiles, you’ll be able to schedule the delivery of a gift up to seven days in advance of a birthday. This will [...]
Facebook and DAVOS Partner to Poll Users on Several Topics
1 Comment Published by Rodney Rumford January 29th, 2009 in business, Facebook, Facebook News.The World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, brings together the world’s political, business, and thought leaders to discuss the most pressing issues of our time. Of course, conversations such as those that are happening at the World Economic Forum are also happening in everyday life: in people’s living rooms, in local communities, over a family [...]
New Legal Legislation: When You Renew Your Drivers License You Are Issued a Facebook Account
4 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford December 18th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook News.New Legal Legislation: When You Get Your Drivers License You Are Issued a Facebook Account: This is a bit of a tongue in cheek joke aimed at this just released statistic from facebook. The fastest growing demographic on facebook is those users 25 years old and older. The reason for this post is to bring [...]
The Facebook Movie? Aaron Sorkin? Seriously?
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford August 28th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Groups, Facebook News.It would appear; but this is not officially confirmed that Aaron Sorkin of Hollywood fame is supposedly working on a Facebook movie. What the movie would be about is anyone’s guess. I only write about this to put a more scrutinizing lens on what many bloggers are reporting (and it appears quite blindly). There has [...]
