This afternoon I was reading a New York Times article about improving Netflix’s Cinematch video suggestion algorithm. The article is a great overview about the benefits of using consumer activity data for commercial purposes. The more data we have about consumer activity, the more likely we are able to predict their purchase behavior. [...]
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Just earlier this week we reviewed fbFund competitor Real Gifts, which combines virtual gifting with giving someone a gift in the real world. I thought that combining some of Real Gifts’ elements would be a good idea, for other apps or native Facebook apps. But this Thanksgiving, Facebook is taking advantage of the holiday’s [...]
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With the launch of the new Facebook design many users were confused about how to mange their applications. Initially Facebook appeared to come up with solutions on the fly. They removed the applications drop down resulting in an initial decrease in application traffic and then shifted application access to a toolbar at the [...]
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Spam definitely doesn’t pay in the long run. Adam Guerbuez and Atlantis Blue Capital learned that when Judge Jeremy Fogel awarded Facebook $873 million in damages for them sending “sleazy messages” to their users. According to Facebook, this is the “largest judgment in history for action brought under the Controlling the Assault of [...]
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Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more …
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ATTRIBUTE. Mon 24 November 2008 at 9:09 AM by infosthetics. CATEGORIZE. collection / infovis / locative / social. PARTICIPATE. add to the no comments yet · save or share this post. BROWSE. « Infographic Critique: Iceland is Out of Orbit …
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Here’s a rumor that won’t go away - Facebook has been quietly searching for a partner to take over their year and a …
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This video below popped up in my newsfeed this evening and I had to post it. Jack Lindameu (spelling probably way off since I got it from the video) posted the video of the Java application he created at the Facebook hackathon. It is pretty impressive and produces some pretty cool animations. [...]
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As a privately held company, Facebook can avoid some of the woes that publicly traded companies are facing during this major economic downturn. and Facebook would like to keep things that way. In a recent ruling from the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC), Facebook has been deemed exempt from having to disclose financial [...]
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