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NYTimes.com Prepping Facebook Integration

New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) execs have insisted for months that social media and metered media can coexist, promising more social and more personalization as the prep for switching on the meter for news stories continues. (They’ve also promised to make sure the meter doesn’t get in the way of sharing once that switch is flipped.) Tonight, NYTimes.com takes a big step in that direction, adding “Login with Facebook” as an option and remaking its home and article pages to make room for a Facebook news module.
via paidcontent.org

Filed under  //   digital+distribution   facebook   media+strategy   social+analytics   social+networking   social+news  
Posted August 31, 2010
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The Facebook Gravitational Effect | Monday Note

Social Networks not only act as powerful traffic attractor and referrals, but also as gateways toward other sites: this takes place when users log on one site using their ID from another. Gigya, another analytic company, found out that Facebook captured 46% of third party login, vs. 17% for Google, 14% for Twitter, 13% for Yahoo, 7% for MySpace and 2% for LinkedIn.
via mondaynote.com

Filed under  //   facebook   media+strategy   social+analytics   social+networks   social+news  
Posted August 2, 2010
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Google vs Facebook

Chief executive Eric Schmidt would not comment on the service this week but said "the world doesn't need a copy" of Facebook. The world might not need that, but what Google needs is a copy of the most advertiser-friendly parts of that and, as the Zynga investment shows, Google is keen to move in on one of the web's hottest - and most profitable - growing markets of casual gaming. As WSJ says, a Google offering would also be good news for developers worrying over over-dependence on Facebook.
via guardian.co.uk

It's not just developers that should be concerned with "over-dependence" on Facebook.

Filed under  //   facebook   google   social+networking  
Posted July 28, 2010
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Infographic -- Facebook’s 500 Million

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Posted July 22, 2010
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Growing On Google, People Asking “How Do I Delete My Facebook Account”

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Posted May 10, 2010
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Drilling Down - More Know of Twitter, but Not All Sign Up - NYTimes.com

While Twitter has nearly equaled Facebook in awareness among Americans — 87 percent now know of it, compared with 26 percent last year — it still lags behind in use.

In addition, according to an Edison Research study, Twitter is disproportionately popular among African-Americans. A quarter of users are African-Americans, the study found, about double their percentage of the American population. Twitter users are also far more likely to have graduated from a four-year college, attended graduate school and live in households making over $50,000 a ye

via nytimes.com

Filed under  //   Edison+Research   facebook   twitter  
Posted May 10, 2010
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