by David Evans on February 16, 2010 in Research
A while back, Facebook came up with the United States Gross National Happiness. measurement.
When people in their status updates use more positive words–or fewer negative words–then that day as a whole is counted as happier than usual.
The graph contains several metrics. The first, GNH, represents our measure of Gross National Happiness. The other two, Positivity [...]
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by David Evans on January 30, 2010 in Mobile
If competition from Yelp, Gowalla and other location-based checking services wasn’t enough, Facebook Is Working On A Foursquare-Killer. I am an avid Foursquare user (Superuser status) and so are several dating industry executives, judging by the number of Miami Convention Center and Royal Palms Hotel checkins I witnessed while in Miami Beach.
It was only a [...]
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This was a big week for social gaming and mobile billing companies. Back in June at iDate LA, several people brought the social gaming and mobile billing markets. It looks like the sector is about to get cleaned up,
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus: “I Did Every Horrible Thing In The Book Just To Get Revenuesâ€
Continued Action [...]
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This is from a friend of mine, Ms. Matched, who’s blog is full of hilarious dating hi-jinx.
Cheating 2.0: New Mobile Apps Make Adultery Easier
A new report from click fraud tracker Click Forensics (via PaidContent) says click fraud rates have declined nearly 25 percent over the last year. The average click fraud rate was 12.7 [...]
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My neighbor Leah Busque founded RunMyErrand. We see each other often at Zume’s, our local coffee shop. Leah is back from the Facebook fbFund Rev competition for a few days and she told a fun story about what’s its like working out of the original Facebook offices for the summer. fbFund Rev is a [...]
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Let’s say a single person wants to try out a handful of dating sites, kick the proverbial tires to see which one performs best for their certain circumstances — geographic location, age, sexual orientation, niche, etc.
Insanity is often defined as “Repeating the same behavior & expecting different results.” While not insane, filling out a dating [...]
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Big news, TechCrunch says Facebook First Big Site To Really Embrace OpenID. I’ve been following OpenID for several years. Yes its confused with Microsoft Passport at first glance but when coupled with OAuth and other underlying infrastructures, it will allow things like letting websites share your data without providing your password, which is common with [...]
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Nial Kennedy outlines Haystack, the new Facebook photo storage system. Facebook has 850 million photos uploaded to the site each month, 500 GB per day. More details at Computerworld.
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Facebook had announced a whole slew of changes, including improving the ability to share and connect, pages for public figures and organizations
I was pleased to see the heading “The Social Graph and The Stream“, as I have been championing the concept for years.
TechCrunch, Facebook’s Response to Twitter:
Facebook is also speeding up the updates that populate [...]
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Jeremy Wagstaff found another hole in how Facebook deals with friend requests, specifically when you are contacted by someone who is not a friend.
…if you click on the profile of someone who is not a friend but has sent you a message, or asked you to be a friend. In either case, I believe, that [...]
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