Ave # of Facebook Friends Pew reports the average number of Facebook friends to be 229 (May 2012) which lines up with analysis on the Facebook S1 which pegs it at 234. This huge rise from the numbers Facebook’s shared previously: 130 (2010) and 100 (2008). However the greater story is in how the numbers…
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Facebook as “King Maker” thru its Newsfeed and Open Graph Above shows how pivotal Facebook’s algorithms are in driving awareness and adoption of new apps can be which can be magnified by Apple’s own model for promoting apps that are suddenly being downloaded at high rates. It bodes well for the power Facebook’s new App Center could…
People like Facebook. People use Facebook. People love Instagram. Om Malik
My favorite visual of the Instagram $1B acquisition today.
Why Facebook *really* shut down another contact info exporter today
In the news today we see yet another case of Facebook shutting down a service aimed at librating contact info from the Facebook walled garden. Facebook believes you shouldn’t be able to export the contact info your friends have shared with you—Except when it doesn’t believe that (their Dec 2009 deal with Yahoo! which enabled contact…