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PR Blogger: Deutsche Bahn gerät mit neuem Facebook-Angebot unter Druck - 0 views

  • Kaum hatte die Seite das Licht der Facebook-Welt erblickt, folgten auch schon die ersten negativen Kommentare. Am Anfang beschränkte sich die Kritik noch auf das "mitgelieferte" Video. Von "arm" oder "verwerflich" war die Rede, "Den Werber (...) solltet ihr rauswerfen!", kommentierte zum Beispiel Manuel. Reaktion durch die Betreuer der Seite: Null. Wenig später schoss sich dann die Facebook-Gemeinde auf die Bahn selbst und ihr Social Media-Auftreten ein. Die Frage nach einer Moderation wurde immer lauter.
  • Die Bilanz nach neun Stunden: Auf insgesamt 37 Posts (die eigenen eingeschlossen) hatten die Betreiber es geschafft, sechs Mal zu kommentieren. Fünf Mal wurde bei einem eigenen und einmal wurde auf einen "externen" Post kommentiert. Ein Online-Dialog auf Facebook sollte einfach anders aussehen. Wer sagt, die Bahn reagiere nur auf inhaltliche Posts zu ihrem "Chefticket" (das eigentlich mit der Seite beworben werden soll), liegt falsch. Fragen, wie der Kunde denn das Ticket über Facebook bezahlt oder überhaupt genau bekommt, blieben ebenfalls unbeantwortet.
  • Interessanter Punkt am Rande ist, dass die Facebook-Vanity-Url "facebook.com/deutschebahn" einer Privatperson gehört - hat die Bahn gar kein Interesse daran? Apropos: Eine allgemeine Facebook-Seite der Bahn gibt es auch. Aber ob die echt ist, ist stark zu bezweifeln. Obwohl, nach dem heutigen Fehlstart der Deutschen Bahn ist eigentlich alles möglich.
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    Deutsche Bahn gerät mit neuem Facebook-Angebot unter Druck
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    Superspannende Situation. Das sollten wir am Radar behalten, wie die mit der Situation umgehen.
Parycek

Facebook Statistics, Application Statistics, Page Statistics | Facebakers.com - 1 views

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    Facebakers.com is a portal run by Candytech to deliver up-to-date data and statistics about Facebook - including Facebook statistics of users by countries, top Facebook Page data, and top Facebook Applications data. We love baking things for Facebook, and the portal Facebakers.com is a way of showing this.
Johann Höchtl

Facebook in Ägypten - 0 views

  • Die Zeiten, in den sich der Informationsfluss in der arabischen Welt einfach staatlicherseits kontrollieren ließ, sind vorbei.Und es sind vor allem die Neuen Medien wie das Soziale Netzwerk Facebook, die Internet-Tagebücher der Blogger und der Kurznachrichtendienst Twitter, auf denen sich Nachrichten, die den arabischen Regierungen nicht genehm sind, wie ein Lauffeuer verbreiten.
  • Mehr Facebook-User als ZeitungsleserDas Internet ist für das Regime in Ägypten zum Oppositionsführer geworden. Gerade Facebook wird nicht nur in Ägypten, sondern überall in der arabischen Welt zu einem wichtigen Kommunikationsmittel, jenseits der staatlichen Zensur und der roten Linien, an die sich auch die unabhängige Presse halten muss. In der arabischen Welt gibt es inzwischen laut einer Studie der Agentur Spot on Public Relation in Dubai mehr Facebook-Nutzer als Zeitungsleser.
  • Demnach nutzen 15 Millionen Menschen in der arabischen Welt Facebook, verglichen mit der Auflage von etwas weniger als 14 Millionen Zeitungen, die auf Arabisch, Englisch und Französisch in der Region erscheinen."Wie ein Virus""Facebook und andere Social Networks beginnen nun zu definieren, wie Menschen Informationen entdecken und teilen und wie sie sich eine Meinung bilden", sagt Carington Malin, Vorstand von Spot on Public Relation.
Johann Höchtl

Internet Surpasses Television as Main News Source for Young Adults - 0 views

  • Internet Surpasses Television as Main News Source for Young Adults
  • a study from the Pew Research Center
  • Tweet counts have increased from 5,000 daily in 2007 to 90 million daily in 2010, while Facebook () went from 30 million users in 2007 to more than 500 million users today
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    Some stats about SNS sites
Parycek

SMALL CHANGE Why the revolution will not be tweeted - 2 views

  • The world, we are told, is in the midst of a revolution. The new tools of social media have reinvented social activism. With Facebook and Twitter and the like, the traditional relationship between political authority and popular will has been upended, making it easier for the powerless to collaborate, coördinate, and give voice to their concerns
  • There was no Twitter Revolution inside Iran.” The cadre of prominent bloggers, like Andrew Sullivan, who championed the role of social media in Iran, Esfandiari continued, misunderstood the situation. “Western journalists who couldn’t reach—or didn’t bother reaching?—people on the ground in Iran simply scrolled through the English-language tweets post with tag #iranelection,” she wrote. “Through it all, no one seemed to wonder why people trying to coordinate protests in Iran would be writing in any language other than Farsi.”
  • The platforms of social media are built around weak ties. Twitter is a way of following (or being followed by) people you may never have met. Facebook is a tool for efficiently managing your acquaintances, for keeping up with the people you would not otherwise be able to stay in touch with. That’s why you can have a thousand “friends” on Facebook, as you never could in real life.
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  • “Social networks are particularly effective at increasing motivation,”
  • But that’s not true. Social networks are effective at increasing participation—by lessening the level of motivation that participation requires
  • social media are not about this kind of hierarchical organization. Facebook and the like are tools for building networks, which are the opposite, in structure and character, of hierarchies. Unlike hierarchies, with their rules and procedures, networks aren’t controlled by a single central authority. Decisions are made through consensus, and the ties that bind people to the group are loose.
  • There are many things, though, that networks don’t do well. Car companies sensibly use a network to organize their hundreds of suppliers, but not to design their cars.
  • The drawbacks of networks scarcely matter if the network isn’t interested in systemic change—if it just wants to frighten or humiliate or make a splash—or if it doesn’t need to think strategically. But if you’re taking on a powerful and organized establishment you have to be a hierarchy.
  • it is simply a form of organizing which favors the weak-tie connections that give us access to information over the strong-tie connections that help us persevere in the face of danger. It shifts our energies from organizations that promote strategic and disciplined activity and toward those which promote resilience and adaptability
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    Twitter, Facebook, and social activism : The New Yorker by Malcolm Gladwell
Johann Höchtl

Hacker News | Facebook is not worth $33 billion - 0 views

  • The whole section "Minority investment evaluations aren’t real" is so economically bizarre and incorrect that I don't even know where to start. It's like you wrote a blog post arguing that it is incorrect to refer to a 5' tall boy as 5' tall because he's often sitting down. Every single day every single public company in the world is valued by the last share traded, usually for a tiny fraction of the company.Finally, to the main point. Facebook has certainly figured out how to make money off of 500,000,000 users. And as they optimize, they will make a lot more money. When they figure out how to make another DIME off of every user, they will instantly be making another $50,000,000 a year... in pure profit. How much profit will 37signals make if you figure out how to make another dime off of every customer? Eh David? Facebook works on the theory that when you have a lot of people, you don't have to make as much per person, because the amount of money you make is the number of customers times the amount of money you make off of each one. Again, that pesky multiplication.
  • The bond and equity markets are based on sound regulation, transparency, and quarterly statements. Facebook has none of those things when it operates in the dark of the secondary markets.
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    Lenghty read Spolsky vs. dhh http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Spolsky about the valuation of Facebook and SNS
Parycek

Facebook, social media juggernaut (infographic) | Royal Pingdom - 1 views

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    Facebook has announced that it now has 400 million active users. Just one year ago Facebook had 150 million users, so 2009 was an incredible year for the social media giant.
Johann Höchtl

Likely Service Disruption - Facebook status at downrightnow - 0 views

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    Facebook has down syndrome
Parycek

The Evolution of Privacy on Facebook - 0 views

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    Great Facebook visualization!
Parycek

10 Ways Facebook Pages Can Help Local Governments Better Serve Their Constituents - 0 views

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    A Facebook page can help a local government build a stronger social connection to the citizens it represents. 
Parycek

Facebook: wenn Fanpages zum Kriegsschauplatz werden - 0 views

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    Die möglichen Nachteile von Social Media spürt zur Zeit der Schweizer Lebensmittelriese Nestlé am eigenen Leib, die Facebook Fanpage von Nestlé wurde durch eine geschickte Social Media Kampagne von Greenpeace zum Kriegsschauplatz. 
Judith Schossboeck

Die Zeit: Alle anderen sind auch bei Facebook - 0 views

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    In einer aktuellen Verbraucherumfrage haben amerikanische Nutzer dem Netzwerk schlechtere Noten gegeben als dem Internetauftritt ihres Finanzamts. Dennoch hier die schockierende These: Bald wird sich einer über Facebook so wenig wundern, wie man auch nicht erstaunt nachfragen würde: „Was, du machst mit bei diesem Wahnsinn namens Telefonbuch?" Oder: „Was, du gehst abends zu fremden Leuten in die Bar, anstatt gemütlich zu Hause wirklich guten Wein zu trinken?" Fragt ja auch keiner: „Ist das nicht doof, gefährlich gar?"
Noella Edelmann

A history of media technology scares, from the printing press to Facebook. - By Vaughan... - 0 views

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    "Don't Touch That Dial!A history of media technology scares, from the printing press to Facebook."
Judith Schossboeck

Das ganze Netz wird Facebook - 0 views

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    Social Plugins auf Facebook
Johann Höchtl

What Happened to Yahoo - 0 views

  • When I went to work for Yahoo after they bought our startup in 1998, it felt like the center of the world. It was supposed to be the next big thing.
  • What went wrong? The problems that hosed Yahoo go back a long time, practically to the beginning of the company.
  • Yahoo had two problems Google didn't: easy money, and ambivalence about being a technology company.
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  • The first time I met Jerry Yang, we thought we were meeting for different reasons.
  • we could show him our new technology, Revenue Loop. It was a way of sorting shopping search results.
  • It was like the algorithm Google uses now to sort ads, but this was in the spring of 1998, before Google was founded.
  • I didn't say "But search traffic is worth more than other traffic!"
  • Hard as it is to believe now, the big money then was in banner ads.
  • Led by a large and terrifyingly formidable man called Anil Singh, Yahoo's sales guys would fly out to Procter & Gamble and come back with million dollar orders for banner ad impressions.
  • By 1998, Yahoo was the beneficiary of a de facto pyramid scheme. Investors were excited about the Internet. One reason they were excited was Yahoo's revenue growth.
  • The reason Yahoo didn't care about a technique that extracted the full value of traffic was that advertisers were already overpaying for it.
  • I remember telling David Filo in late 1998 or early 1999 that Yahoo should buy Google, because I and most of the other programmers in the company were using it instead of Yahoo for search.
  • But Yahoo also had another problem that made it hard to change directions. They'd been thrown off balance from the start by their ambivalence about being a technology company
  • Microsoft (back in the day), Google, and Facebook have all been obsessed with hiring the best programmers. Yahoo wasn't. They preferred good programmers to bad ones, but they didn't have the kind of single-minded, almost obnoxiously elitist focus on hiring the smartest people that the big winners have had.
  • The company felt prematurely old.
  • The first time I visited Google, they had about 500 people,
  • I remember talking to some programmers in the cafeteria about the problem of gaming search results (now known as SEO), and they asked "what should we do?" Programmers at Yahoo wouldn't have asked that.
  • In the software business, you can't afford not to have a hacker-centric culture.
  • Probably the most impressive commitment I've heard to having a hacker-centric culture came from Mark Zuckerberg, when he spoke at Startup School in 2007. He said that in the early days Facebook made a point of hiring programmers even for jobs that would not ordinarily consist of programming, like HR and marketing.
  • Hacker culture often seems kind of irresponsible. That's why people proposing to destroy it use phrases like "adult supervision." That was the phrase they used at Yahoo. But there are worse things than seeming irresponsible. Losing, for example.
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    Paul Graham hat mit dem Verkauf seiner Shop Lösung an Yahoo 1998 Millionen von Dollar gemacht. Er ist Buchautor und respektierter Columnist. Ein Artikel von ihm, warum seiner Meinung nach Yahoo scheiterte und FB und Google erfolgreicht waren.
Johann Höchtl

U.S. Tries to Make It Easier to Wiretap the Internet - NYTimes.com - 0 views

  • Essentially, officials want Congress to require all services that enable communications — including encrypted e-mail transmitters like BlackBerry, social networking Web sites like Facebook and software that allows direct “peer to peer” messaging like Skype — to be technically capable of complying if served with a wiretap order.
  • The bill, which the Obama administration plans to submit to lawmakers next year, raises fresh questions about how to balance security needs with protecting privacy and fostering innovation.
  • But law enforcement officials contend that imposing such a mandate is reasonable and necessary to prevent the erosion of their investigative powers.
Parycek

E-Petition Application 4 Facebook - 0 views

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    would be great if we could combine it with an european eID app
Parycek

Social Networking Sites Study - 0 views

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    Christian Fuchs: A Critical Case Study of the Usage of studiVZ, Facebook, and MySpace by Students in Salzburg in the Context of Electronic Surveillance. Salzburg/Vienna: Research Group UTI. ISBN 978-3-200-01428-2.
Parycek

Facebook, Twitter Election Results Prove Remarkably Accurate - 0 views

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