Posts tagged with "Facebook"
Facebook Launches Startup Incubator Subsidiary in China
In 2009, sparked by riots in Xinjiang, Facebook was officially banned from the country of China. Since then, the social media giant has tried many times, in a variety of ways, to make their way back into the country. One strategy involved a “charm campaign,” as described by Time. Facebook also has worked on tech that would help the...
Opinion: Does Facebook just suck?
It seems like for over the past year or so, people have been asking this question a lot. The once social media pioneer-turned-titan has taken a beating recently, and the cracks are beginning to show. Last month, Wired published an extended piece analyzing Facebook’s recent history -- and downturn. Titled “Inside the Two Years That...
Facebook Moving Forward with Music and MLB Streaming
In this fast-paced world, companies are constantly needing to adapt and expand in order to be successful. It’s no different for social media platforms, which often find it necessary to expand their reach and cover multiple territories. Recently, Facebook took steps into music licensing, signing a deal with ICE Services, a licensing...
Mark Zuckerberg Named “Misinformer of the Year”
With the end of the year comes a myriad of awards in the classic format “______ of the Year.” While most of these are welcome honors to the recipient, there are others that people likely try to avoid. Every year, the non-profit journalism organization Media Matters chooses one “Misinformer of the Year.” Past recipients have...
Facebook Admits That Social Media Might Be Bad For Us
“With people spending more time on social media, many rightly wonder whether that time is good for us. Do people connect in meaningful ways online? Or are they simply consuming trivial updates and polarizing memes at expense of time with loved ones?” So began Facebook’s blog post last week. With more of our time going towards...
Should Brands Try To Be Cool?
In the age of so much free content, you quickly learn to expect you’re going to be advertised to a lot. And, most of the time, these advertisements are harmless reminders that it’s time to buy a new car or restock on paper towels. However, the age of social media has brought along a new age of advertising, where the advertisement...
Facebook Fortune Telling with Computer Scientist Jen Golbeck
In a popular TED Talk, Jen Golbeck reveals the so-called “curly fry conundrum.” She points to a study in which Facebook likes were tallied and analyzed in order to predict user traits – with “intelligence” being one of these. Eventually, the researchers landed on the five likes that could best predict high intelligence. Oddly...
The Problem With Facebook Live Audio
Ever determined to be more than just a place to scroll past baby photos, Facebook is continuing to expand itself with Facebook Live Audio, part of their new Live 360 platform. The service, which features live streaming similar to Facebook Live but purely focusing on audio, looks to be the future (as well as competition) of podcasting and...
Coming this August: An Undersea Cable over 4,000 Miles Long
Online and cloud services may soon be on par with oil as a precious resource. Joining numerous pipelines this August will be a massive trans-Atlantic undersea cable approx. 4,100 miles long. The project is the result of collaborations between tech giants Microsoft and Facebook, whose increased demands for global data have entailed a...