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Pizza Shop Buys First Ads on Facebook

Guess how that turns out. On today’s show, we follow a couple guys who run a pizza shop in New Orleans as they buy their first Facebook ad. We visit a business in New Jersey that sells Facebook “likes” in … Continue reading

“98% of Facebook is women telling each other how great they look.”

And the science behind that claim is represented in a Facebook Power Users infographic. Female Power Facebookers Post Statuses More Often 6: Number of status updates the average male facebook user made. 21: Number of status updates the average female … Continue reading

Spotify: Profitability is not a priority

Spotify is looking to grow their user base before they make money. Didn’t we just go through this with Instagram and Gowalla? That’s ultimately the problem with these subscription services: they’re barely profitable, if at all, which means the whole … Continue reading

Social Site Insecurity

One of these sites is ok with you not going to it to figure out who took action on something you posted and what that was. Pretty much sums up the difference between them.

I Hope Yahoo Crushes Facebook In Its Patent Suit

Mark Cuban thinks it’s the only way we can expose how messed up the patent system is. I Hope Yahoo Crushes Facebook In Its Patent Suit

Facebook Page Admins can remove Facebook Page Admins

I wish there were one admin and then you could have a team of authors, like on a WordPress blog. Instead, Facebook gives every administrator the same rights, so admins could remove each other. Hypothetically, say you manage your company’s … Continue reading

“Talking Copycats with Zynga’s Design Chief” by Kris Gaft

Zynga thinks of their games as inspirations from other games, like the similarities between Command and Conquer and Warcraft, or shooters like Quake and Unreal: games that came out at around the same time that built upon elements from each … Continue reading

The Grid

Dennis Mangan muses on the Facebook IPO and how American industry went from building things to amusing ourselves. I often think that the Facebook bubble will pop, but the company is doing everything it can to prevent that by tying … Continue reading

“The Friction in Frictionless Sharing” by Nick Bradbury

Because in the past the user only had to decide whether to share something they just read, but now they have to think about every single article before they even read it. If I read this article, then everyone will … Continue reading

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