Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - Mar 29 2008 | From Google Reader, facebook, google
Quoted: From Justin: Since there’s been a lot of press lately about Googlers jumping ship for Facebook, I thought I’d search Facebook’s network to see how many folks at the company used to work at Google. As it turns out, over 40, or almost 10% - and mostly engineering or product people.
- Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 14 2007 | yahoo, google, facebook
NYT describes some of the plans Yahoo and Google have for integrating social networking into their web based email systems.
Quoted: Web-based e-mail systems already contain much of what Facebook calls the social graph — the connections between people. That’s why the social networks offer to import the e-mail address books of new users to jump-start their list of friends. Yahoo and Google realize that they have this information and can use it to build their own services that connect people to their contacts.
- Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 04 2007 | social networking, google, facebook
Does seem like a long time ago now.
Quoted: A long, long time ago — last Monday, that is — Facebook seemed a much larger land mass than it ever actually was. That was when it was celebrating its ability to command a generous $15 billion valuation while pocketing a $240 million investment from Microsoft.
- Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 01 2007 | facebook, google, opensocial, marc andreessen
Marc Andreessen on OpenSocial.
Quoted: With the Facebook platform, only Facebook itself can be a "container" -- "apps" can only run within Facebook itself. In contrast, with Open Social, any social network can be an Open Social container and allow Open Social apps to run within it.
- Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 31 2007 | google, facebook, opensocial
NY Times piece on OpenSocial.
Quoted: For now, however, Facebook has become the preferred platform for software developers.
This is probably an overstatement.
- Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - Oct 19 2007 | facebook, yahoo, google, microsoft, social networking, technology
That is a good feature. UI looks familiar though...
Quoted: When he pastes a link to an interesting article in a Facebook message, Facebook automatically fetches the article's headline and any photos that ran with it and attaches them to the message.
- Tosh | Shared With: Everyone - Jul 02 2007 | google, facebook
Via John Battelle who calls this the inevitable grass is greener article on Google.
Quoted: Google is losing a number of its very talented individuals -- some because they're frustrated and some because they're burned out
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