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Facebook's Democracy

Facebook’s Democracy

Over the last few days, im sure many Facebook users would have noticed the ‘ignore all’ button when it came to the requests page.   When Facebook opened up its platform to API developers, the result was that there were a few thousand applications developed. Some were useful, even successful. Some were downright dumb. Users however (at least some [...]

Leveraging the Social Graph: Inside Facebook

Leveraging the Social Graph: Inside Facebook

Why Facebook was so interesting in 2007?
 
Well apart from the stake that Microsoft bought, Facebook had a free platform that allowed developers to create applications and basically distribute it through Facebook “virally”. This leveraged a lot of share of mind for consumers – socially.
 
Surojit Niyogi from Appizer  lent some insights at Proto.in
 
Facebook I think is growing so quickly because of [...]