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Facebook seems to be taking a machine gun kind of approach to the advertising for Facebook Home. First there was that weird ad with the half naked dudes and drag queens. Then there was the one of the Facebook employee completely ignoring Mark Zuckerberg and now Facebook wants you to know how useful Home is for ignoring your family around the dinner table.The ad features a large family in a dining room apparently stuck in the 1970s. Conversation meanwhile ...
Facebook Home shows that the social network is on a serious mobile mission. Its latest purchase though indicates that the feature may have been just the beginning.The social networking giant today confirmed that it had bought out a mobile software startup called Osmeta. The company is yet to release any products, although whatever it's working on looks like it'll be able to a run on a large number of devices (not always a pre-requisite among Silicon Valley software companies). ...
Facebook Home is a quite interesting move on the mobile market by the social networking giant, but not a decisive one. Its main goal could be to become the address book of every smartphone on the planet.I appreciated the analysis by Steven Ambrose on the influence of Facebook Home. His main question: Do I want to surrender my phone to Facebook, and side-line everything else I do? The tone implicated already the answer, a strong “no”.Nevertheless Facebook Home is not ...
Socialbakers, a prominent social media analytics provider, has indicated that South African media's recent reports about a significant drop in Facebook users in the country is all a "massive misunderstanding."A number of reports have used statistics from Socialbakers to claim that Facebook use is on the decline, suggesting the country has 'lost' almost a million users of the social media site in the last six months. When Memeburn contacted Socialbakers spokesperson Maie Crumpton for comment, she said the ...Clever move by Facebook. Launching an app on Android that takes over the device and makes it a comfy home for Facebook. And to boot, they called it Facebook Home. Should Google be worried? Should anyone else be concerned for that matter? All these are pertinent questions and the advice ranges from “very”, to “not at all”, for Google and anyone else. Upfront, I am in the “not at all” camp.Facebook Home is Facebook’s latest attempt at gaining significant relevancy, ...
The poorest people in the world achieve hardly any physical privacy. They can’t afford it. A billion people enjoy Facebook because it’s free. What parallels can we draw?Article 12 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights entrenches our rights to privacy. Sounds nice, but does it make any sense? Not more sense than the other Declaration articles in our societal system where money rules. Life consists of transactions, many of which are illusionary.In the virtual world, it’s only worse. ...
Facebook's ad agency has done it again. Yup, it's made an ad that makes about as much sense as the climax of a Russian art film.The ad stars a young businessman boarding a plane and features a pair of reading beach bums in the carry-on luggage compartments, drag queens, a chocolate-covered infant and, of course, cats.All of this is apparently designed to show you how Facebook Home will transform your life, or at least the way you look ...
In case you missed it, yesterday Facebook took another step into mobile with the launch of Home, its twist on Android which lets you transform your phone into a people-first device, filling your home screen with a feed of updates from your friends and chat functionality which follows you everywhere. It gives Facebook much more of a presence on your smartphone than the current apps... which is why there were privacy concerns swirling before the launch event was even over. ...Facebook today lifted the hood on its long-awaited mobile project. It's not a phone, instead it's a way of integrating Facebook into the heart of your Android phone. It's called Home and it makes complete sense.While we've known that this was what Facebook was likely to release for a little while now, it doesn't make Home any less important. In fact, it's far more important than any device running a native Facebook OS could ever have been. Here's why. ...
Wondering what teenage Zuck was up to before he became The Hoodied One and CEO of the world's largest social networking site? Well, it seems he was interested in animated typography and a slightly creepy blinking yellow eye.A HackerNews user seems to have tracked down what seems to be the Facebook founder's site on free hosting provider Angelfire. While it's not certain that it is definitely Zuckerberg's site, his full name is included in the website's source code and ...
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