Ryan said: As widely expected, Facebook is getting into the location game. Feels late, but 300 million users can't be wrong... Quote:
Facebook has been working on a location-based tool for close to a year, but decided to wait until the product was completely ready for mainstream adoption before announcing it, said the people familiar with the project.Added: March 9, 2010 at 4:04PM EST
Ryan said: Not too deep a look inside Facebook, but inspiring nevertheless. Their engineer-to-user ratio? About 1:1,000,000. Not bad. Added: February 23, 2010 at 4:58PM EST
Ryan said: Jolie O'Dell's notes from the incredibly weird ReadWriteWeb thread that briefly held the top search result for "Facebook login," leading scores of confused users to complain about the changes Facebook had made. When they logged in at RWW. Quote:
A ton of the confused commenters scrolled down far enough to find the Facebook Connect button for logging into the comments section - as evinced by the fact that their Facebook profiles were then linked to their comments.Added: February 11, 2010 at 2:52PM EST
Ryan said: Good advice from Robert Scoble on building social software. Quote:
2. Measure behavior and report it. Do you want your users to check in? Then measure it like Foursquare does and report it. What’s the home screen of Foursquare’s iPhone app show you? Everytime someone of your friends checks in they show up there. Foursquare reports how big a loser I am because there are 34 people in San Francisco area who’ve checked in more than me this week.Added: January 25, 2010 at 9:59AM EST
Ryan said: This is fun, but creepy. The 10th anniversary edition site for Fight Club will tell you all about yourself, weaving pictures of you from Facebook into trailer-of-sorts for the rest of your life... Added: November 13, 2009 at 9:17AM EST
Ryan said: Has your news organization rolled out self-service ads yet? It's a method that seems to be working for Facebook. Added: September 18, 2009 at 4:57PM EDT
Ryan said: Friday September 18 at noon eastern, Columbia University's J-School will host "Advanced Facebook for Journalists" on BlogTalkRadio. Added: September 16, 2009 at 10:15AM EDT
Ryan said: Facebook has open-sourced the web server that powers FriendFeed. I don't have a firm grasp on the technical details here, but the goal is to build a web server framework that can handle a large number of connections at once. Added: September 10, 2009 at 5:04PM EDT
Ryan said: Follow the trail, click the link, use it, abandon it. (Or, of course, you could save it, share it, republish it, and bring your friends/readers/audience/collaborators to the party.) Added: August 26, 2009 at 4:58PM EDT
Ryan said: Facebook iPhone app developer Joe Hewitt calls for the App Store's review process to be "eliminated completely." Added: August 26, 2009 at 8:45AM EDT