by Erik Sass, July 9th 2010, 4:49 PM Although Facebook’s growth appears to be slowing in the United States (the site added a mere 320,800 new users in June, down from 7.8 million new users in May), the U.S. is only half the story. Or actually, significantly less than half the story. Indeed, one of the most [...]

Feb 4 2010, 10:40 am by Derek Thompson Facebook’s page view explosion in the last months of 2009 — plus new evidence that it is becoming the major driver of news — has some analysts wondering whether the site is taking over Google News and personalized Google Reader accounts as America’s leading information hub. To me the issue [...]

At the risk of sounding like a curmudgeon – a diagnosis confirmed by my children and my way cooler friends – I find Twitter and Facebook annoying. Social media is an unavoidable reality for publishers, as we have often reported in these pages. It may even be profitable, and not just to Web 2.0 developers [...]

Who owns the content in the social network and who controls it?

Social Networks advertising dilemma There was something a little dispiriting about Google’sannouncement last week of its plans to bring video advertising to YouTube. This was only partly a result of the deadening sensation instilled by a sense of creeping commercialisation… more