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• Social network advertising: not your father’s banner ad

  When i visited the San Jose Mercury News yesterday, what did we talk about? Advertising and how newspapers were going to make it online. Well, one trend we’re seeing big time is the move to social networks. Facebook alone has more than 100 million... Posted Nov 26 2008, 06:38 AM by Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger Filed under: Advertising, Technology, Facebook, MySpace, Social Network

• Exclusive video: SocialText brings enterprise Facebook and Twitter to wikis

  Socialtext is making big news all over the Web this morning. Here’s a rundown, later in the post I’ll talk about why. I also have an exclusive video of Ross Mayfield, founder of Socialtext demonstrating the new features to me. Ross Mayfield... Posted Sep 30 2008, 12:34 PM by Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger Filed under: Enterprise, Twitter, Technology, Facebook, socialtext

• In startup success blogs don’t matter, paradigm shifts do

  What’s the most successful new company out there of the past two years? I’d argue it’s iLike, a music sharing and discovery service that came out on Facebook first, but has moved other places. When I quit Microsoft they had no users... Posted Sep 11 2008, 03:07 PM by Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger Filed under: iphone, Technology, Facebook, startups, success, apps

• Inside Facebook, Part I (New design)

  I’m getting an inside look at Facebook and here is our first interview with one of Facebook’s top geeks, Mark Slee, who runs the team that did the new design that came out a couple of weeks ago. You get a look at the executive offices (Zuckerberg’s... Posted Sep 04 2008, 05:14 PM by Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger Filed under: Design, Technology, Facebook, mark slee

• Where Google and Facebook are fighting the next monetization battle

  Think about something you’ve purchased recently. How did you decide to buy that thing? In my buying behavior I find that I can split it up into three phases: 1. Need generation. This is what happens when someone shows you something you didn’t... Posted Aug 20 2008, 04:24 PM by Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger Filed under: Google, Technology, Facebook, Connect, friend connect

• Making better Facebook video 606 pixels at a time

  Yesterday I did a couple of interviews at Facebook’s headquarters that’ll be up over the next couple of weeks. But in between I stopped at Chris Putnam’s desk. I’ve known him since he was 16, living in Atlanta (he showed me a web... Posted Aug 20 2008, 03:00 PM by Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger Filed under: Video, Technology, Facebook

• Chris Messina nails it

  I’ve been trying to find the words to explain why I love the public web. It’s messy, yes. Upcoming.org isn’t quite as nice as Facebook’s event system. Flickr isn’t quite as nice as Facebook’s photo sharing service.... Posted Jun 02 2008, 02:21 AM by Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger Filed under: Technology, Facebook

• Should services charge “super users”?

  Om Malik says that Twitter should charge super users like me and come up with a business model. Dare Obasanjo, in a separate, but similar post comes to the conclusion that Twitter’s problems are due to super users like me. Interesting that both... Posted May 26 2008, 05:31 AM by Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger Filed under: Twitter, Technology, Facebook, FriendFeed, super users

• Why Microsoft will buy Facebook and keep it closed

  It no longer is about Data Portability. I’m hearing these rumors too that John Furrier (my ex-boss) is reporting. That Microsoft will buy Yahoo’s search and then buy Facebook for $15 to $20 billion. That just changed the whole argument of... Posted May 19 2008, 06:08 AM by Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger Filed under: Search, Advertising, Yahoo, Microsoft, Technology, Facebook, Social Network, social graph

• Why did Facebook tell Google “stay off our lawn?”

  Well, we’ve fought about it. Made noise about it. And you’re witnessing two giants (Google and Facebook) fighting over our social networks. Here, let’s discover my social network: Robert Scoble (Friend of:) -Mike Arrington -Louis Gray... Posted May 17 2008, 01:53 PM by Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger Filed under: Technology, Facebook, Google Friend Connect

• Mike Arrington is Right, Facebook is Wrong

  Mike Arrington and I had a sometimes violent disagreement on today’s Gillmor Gang. The reason we were arguing? Because we both were arguing different things. Mike Arrington was arguing that Facebook was in the wrong for blocking Google Friend Connect... Posted May 16 2008, 06:14 PM by Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger Filed under: Technology, Facebook, Google Friend Connect

• Facebook has a point where it comes to your privacy

  My ex-boss, John Furrier, goes after Facebook after Facebook blocked Google’s Friend Connect from using its API to inport friends from Facebook into Google’s Friend Connect. I saw Dave Morin, who runs Facebook’s developer platform, at... Posted May 15 2008, 10:18 PM by Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger Filed under: Google, Technology, Facebook, privacy, Google Friend Connect

• Facebook continues to suck

  People wonder why Facebook is getting nasty PR while last year everyone was singing its praises. Here’s why. Rodrigo Sepulveda Schulz is a CEO of VodPod.tv in Europe. Not a spammer. Not an idiot. Not someone abusing Facebook. Yet he still got kicked... Posted Apr 28 2008, 12:49 PM by Scobleizer -- Tech geek blogger Filed under: Technology, Facebook