Social Networks

Will Facebook Fans “Like” Wording Change?

Posted by Jed on April 11, 2010 at 8:34 am

The upcoming Facebook change seems like small potatoes – changing the term Facebook “Fan” to the more vague “Like” – but in reality, it’s a negative switch for 400 million Facebook users, and the only one benefiting is Facebook. This announcement comes (yet again) in the wake of a rival’s innovation announcement: Twitter’s @anywhere explained [...]

Foursquare and the Evolution of Social Networking

Posted by Jed on April 3, 2010 at 1:17 pm

Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like while there has been a lot of great publicity about foursquare – all the high-profile partnerships they’ve been signing, teaming up with bing’s maps, huge usership increases, etc. – there’s been a ton of negative sentiment surrounding the location-based social networking service. I suppose it shouldn’t be [...]