Facebook 2010 the Saga Continues

facebook O Search Home Profile Account Facebook 2010: The Saga Continues The social networking prodigy is growing at an astounding rate. Far from just a fad, Facebook is proving that it is here to stay. However, not without internal changes and external criticisms. Let's take a look inside the social service's biggest year yet. Scandals Major Growth Milestones New or Negative Headlines Kinds of News Acquistions Features Timeline: January 2010 New default privacy settings set the sections About New privacy settings mean that one can no longer hide: their profile picture, networks, friend's list, current city, and the pages that they are a "fan" of from being broadcast on their wall. The changes also include inability to hide one's activity (liking or com- menting, becoming friends, writing on a wall, etc.) Me, Family and Relationships, Work and Education and Post's I Create (which includes Status Updates, Links, Photos, Videos and Notes), to "Everyone" – aka the entire internet. One must manually change this. Facebook Founder on Privacy: Public is the New "Social Norm" Why Facebook's Privacy Changes - Mashable.com, Jan 10th. are Detrimental to User - Mashable.com, Jan 12th. February 2010 Over 400 Million users on the site: Octazen: A small, Malaysian based contact importing software company. Over 100 Million users on Facebook Mobile; Octazen's software allows Facebook users to import contacts from their Facebook Chat Goes Universal. email accounts, making it easier to Users are able to integrate their Facebook chat with the instant messaging client of their choice. Allows user to chat with friends on Facebook through third party IM, even while not on the site. find friends on the network, as well as invite friends to join. March Bigger Photos for better Viewing. Users can now upload photos up to 720 pixels - a 20% increase (previously 604 pixels) 50% 2010 of active users log on to Facebook in any given day The average user has: 130 April 2010 divvyshot: A group photo sharing service. divvyshot friends. was designed to allow users to easily share photo albums, known as events, as well as allow multiple users to contribute People spend over 700 billion photos to a certain event. Facebook likely acquired divvyshot to allow for event tagging in photos. minutes per month on Facebook May 2010 ShareGrove: Facebook: Friend, Foe or Fenemy? Mark Zucker- berg and company may be technological whizzes. But they've got a lot to learn about customer and public relations - Newsweek.com, May 27th Was designed to allow Facebook friends to gather in private chat rooms and share content - links, photos and media. This was most likely a move to beef up their private chat (IM) features. Facebook's Gone Rogue: It's Time for an Open Alternative Wired.com, May 7th Facebook Events: Now Making Casual Get-Togethers Easier. For all events you create, the people you invite will be able to post messages, photos, videos and links on the event's Wall. You can also choose between two types of events: a public event, and a private event. June 2010 'I like your comment' button: You like this. Users can now "like" other user's comments made within comments. July 2010 Over 500 Million Users Helping Newcomers Connect to Interests. Newcomers can find interesting Facebook "Pages," due to receiving suggestions based on what people in a similar demographic like. nextstop: A social travel startup, was a site Hot Potato: that allowed members to share short + recommendations, with photos, nextstop Hot Potato was a site that helped friends and fans to socialize and maps and other media, for things to do in places all over the world. share experiences around live events. August 2010 Chai Labs: There are over Chi Labs was a semantic search startup. Facebook most likely made the acquisition, which included former Google Ad Sense Executive, to work on 900 million objects that people interact with advertising targeting as well as increasing search performance and relativity. including: pages, groups, events & community pages. Control Your Information Anywhere, Anytime. Users can now access all of Facebook's privacy controls from any browse- enabled mobile device. The average user is The average user September 2010 Discover Facebook Pages with the Page connected to: creates: Browser. 80 90 The 'Page Browser' allows users to discover Face- book Pages that pertain to their inertest. By "liking" community pages, groups and events. pieces of content each month. More Beautiful Photos. hoto size is increased pixels. More than 30 billion pieces of content are shared each month. including: web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc. October 2010 The Social Network hits theaters. Drop.io: A private sharing service founded by Sam •. + .io Lessin, a long time friend of Mark Zucker- berg. Lessin was the only employee who joined Facebook in the acquisition. The Mark Zuckerberg- "Social Network" PR Battle - The Hollywood Reporter.com Telling The Story of Friendships. These are the new 'Friendship Pages'. They contain Facebook's Mark Zuckebergy braces for •. wall posts, comments between two friends, photos 'The Social Network - Latimes.com in which both are tagged, events they RSVP'd for together, videos etc. November Walletin: See the Messages that Matter. 2010 + Was a small gaming start-up in the stealth phase. The new 'messages' allows users to send and receive The acquisition came with two heavy hitters, Cory Ondrejka (CTO of Linden Labs) & Bruce Rogers 'messages' through any medium: SMS, Chat, Email or Messages. In addition, every user who wants one, will receive an @facebook.com email address. (former coder at Atari). This was a move to help capitalize on the rise of online gaming. zenbe: The acquisition included just 3 employees from this small messaging startup. Most likely, this was an effort to expand Facebook messages. zen W BE December FB owner, Mark Zuckerberg, was named A new and improved profile format was rolled 2010 Time Magazine's Person of the Year. out. Users now have the option to switch over to the new profile or keep the old one. Flowtown. Sources mashable.com / blog.facebook.com / insidefacebook.com I divvyshot facebook O Search Home Profile Account Facebook 2010: The Saga Continues The social networking prodigy is growing at an astounding rate. Far from just a fad, Facebook is proving that it is here to stay. However, not without internal changes and external criticisms. Let's take a look inside the social service's biggest year yet. Scandals Major Growth Milestones New or Negative Headlines Kinds of News Acquistions Features Timeline: January 2010 New default privacy settings set the sections About New privacy settings mean that one can no longer hide: their profile picture, networks, friend's list, current city, and the pages that they are a "fan" of from being broadcast on their wall. The changes also include inability to hide one's activity (liking or com- menting, becoming friends, writing on a wall, etc.) Me, Family and Relationships, Work and Education and Post's I Create (which includes Status Updates, Links, Photos, Videos and Notes), to "Everyone" – aka the entire internet. One must manually change this. Facebook Founder on Privacy: Public is the New "Social Norm" Why Facebook's Privacy Changes - Mashable.com, Jan 10th. are Detrimental to User - Mashable.com, Jan 12th. February 2010 Over 400 Million users on the site: Octazen: A small, Malaysian based contact importing software company. Over 100 Million users on Facebook Mobile; Octazen's software allows Facebook users to import contacts from their Facebook Chat Goes Universal. email accounts, making it easier to Users are able to integrate their Facebook chat with the instant messaging client of their choice. Allows user to chat with friends on Facebook through third party IM, even while not on the site. find friends on the network, as well as invite friends to join. March Bigger Photos for better Viewing. Users can now upload photos up to 720 pixels - a 20% increase (previously 604 pixels) 50% 2010 of active users log on to Facebook in any given day The average user has: 130 April 2010 divvyshot: A group photo sharing service. divvyshot friends. was designed to allow users to easily share photo albums, known as events, as well as allow multiple users to contribute People spend over 700 billion photos to a certain event. Facebook likely acquired divvyshot to allow for event tagging in photos. minutes per month on Facebook May 2010 ShareGrove: Facebook: Friend, Foe or Fenemy? Mark Zucker- berg and company may be technological whizzes. But they've got a lot to learn about customer and public relations - Newsweek.com, May 27th Was designed to allow Facebook friends to gather in private chat rooms and share content - links, photos and media. This was most likely a move to beef up their private chat (IM) features. Facebook's Gone Rogue: It's Time for an Open Alternative Wired.com, May 7th Facebook Events: Now Making Casual Get-Togethers Easier. For all events you create, the people you invite will be able to post messages, photos, videos and links on the event's Wall. You can also choose between two types of events: a public event, and a private event. June 2010 'I like your comment' button: You like this. Users can now "like" other user's comments made within comments. July 2010 Over 500 Million Users Helping Newcomers Connect to Interests. Newcomers can find interesting Facebook "Pages," due to receiving suggestions based on what people in a similar demographic like. nextstop: A social travel startup, was a site Hot Potato: that allowed members to share short + recommendations, with photos, nextstop Hot Potato was a site that helped friends and fans to socialize and maps and other media, for things to do in places all over the world. share experiences around live events. August 2010 Chai Labs: There are over Chi Labs was a semantic search startup. Facebook most likely made the acquisition, which included former Google Ad Sense Executive, to work on 900 million objects that people interact with advertising targeting as well as increasing search performance and relativity. including: pages, groups, events & community pages. Control Your Information Anywhere, Anytime. Users can now access all of Facebook's privacy controls from any browse- enabled mobile device. The average user is The average user September 2010 Discover Facebook Pages with the Page connected to: creates: Browser. 80 90 The 'Page Browser' allows users to discover Face- book Pages that pertain to their inertest. By "liking" community pages, groups and events. pieces of content each month. More Beautiful Photos. hoto size is increased pixels. More than 30 billion pieces of content are shared each month. including: web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc. October 2010 The Social Network hits theaters. Drop.io: A private sharing service founded by Sam •. + .io Lessin, a long time friend of Mark Zucker- berg. Lessin was the only employee who joined Facebook in the acquisition. The Mark Zuckerberg- "Social Network" PR Battle - The Hollywood Reporter.com Telling The Story of Friendships. These are the new 'Friendship Pages'. They contain Facebook's Mark Zuckebergy braces for •. wall posts, comments between two friends, photos 'The Social Network - Latimes.com in which both are tagged, events they RSVP'd for together, videos etc. November Walletin: See the Messages that Matter. 2010 + Was a small gaming start-up in the stealth phase. The new 'messages' allows users to send and receive The acquisition came with two heavy hitters, Cory Ondrejka (CTO of Linden Labs) & Bruce Rogers 'messages' through any medium: SMS, Chat, Email or Messages. In addition, every user who wants one, will receive an @facebook.com email address. (former coder at Atari). This was a move to help capitalize on the rise of online gaming. zenbe: The acquisition included just 3 employees from this small messaging startup. Most likely, this was an effort to expand Facebook messages. zen W BE December FB owner, Mark Zuckerberg, was named A new and improved profile format was rolled 2010 Time Magazine's Person of the Year. out. Users now have the option to switch over to the new profile or keep the old one. Flowtown. Sources mashable.com / blog.facebook.com / insidefacebook.com I divvyshot facebook O Search Home Profile Account Facebook 2010: The Saga Continues The social networking prodigy is growing at an astounding rate. Far from just a fad, Facebook is proving that it is here to stay. However, not without internal changes and external criticisms. Let's take a look inside the social service's biggest year yet. Scandals Major Growth Milestones New or Negative Headlines Kinds of News Acquistions Features Timeline: January 2010 New default privacy settings set the sections About New privacy settings mean that one can no longer hide: their profile picture, networks, friend's list, current city, and the pages that they are a "fan" of from being broadcast on their wall. The changes also include inability to hide one's activity (liking or com- menting, becoming friends, writing on a wall, etc.) Me, Family and Relationships, Work and Education and Post's I Create (which includes Status Updates, Links, Photos, Videos and Notes), to "Everyone" – aka the entire internet. One must manually change this. Facebook Founder on Privacy: Public is the New "Social Norm" Why Facebook's Privacy Changes - Mashable.com, Jan 10th. are Detrimental to User - Mashable.com, Jan 12th. February 2010 Over 400 Million users on the site: Octazen: A small, Malaysian based contact importing software company. Over 100 Million users on Facebook Mobile; Octazen's software allows Facebook users to import contacts from their Facebook Chat Goes Universal. email accounts, making it easier to Users are able to integrate their Facebook chat with the instant messaging client of their choice. Allows user to chat with friends on Facebook through third party IM, even while not on the site. find friends on the network, as well as invite friends to join. March Bigger Photos for better Viewing. Users can now upload photos up to 720 pixels - a 20% increase (previously 604 pixels) 50% 2010 of active users log on to Facebook in any given day The average user has: 130 April 2010 divvyshot: A group photo sharing service. divvyshot friends. was designed to allow users to easily share photo albums, known as events, as well as allow multiple users to contribute People spend over 700 billion photos to a certain event. Facebook likely acquired divvyshot to allow for event tagging in photos. minutes per month on Facebook May 2010 ShareGrove: Facebook: Friend, Foe or Fenemy? Mark Zucker- berg and company may be technological whizzes. But they've got a lot to learn about customer and public relations - Newsweek.com, May 27th Was designed to allow Facebook friends to gather in private chat rooms and share content - links, photos and media. This was most likely a move to beef up their private chat (IM) features. Facebook's Gone Rogue: It's Time for an Open Alternative Wired.com, May 7th Facebook Events: Now Making Casual Get-Togethers Easier. For all events you create, the people you invite will be able to post messages, photos, videos and links on the event's Wall. You can also choose between two types of events: a public event, and a private event. June 2010 'I like your comment' button: You like this. Users can now "like" other user's comments made within comments. July 2010 Over 500 Million Users Helping Newcomers Connect to Interests. Newcomers can find interesting Facebook "Pages," due to receiving suggestions based on what people in a similar demographic like. nextstop: A social travel startup, was a site Hot Potato: that allowed members to share short + recommendations, with photos, nextstop Hot Potato was a site that helped friends and fans to socialize and maps and other media, for things to do in places all over the world. share experiences around live events. August 2010 Chai Labs: There are over Chi Labs was a semantic search startup. Facebook most likely made the acquisition, which included former Google Ad Sense Executive, to work on 900 million objects that people interact with advertising targeting as well as increasing search performance and relativity. including: pages, groups, events & community pages. Control Your Information Anywhere, Anytime. Users can now access all of Facebook's privacy controls from any browse- enabled mobile device. The average user is The average user September 2010 Discover Facebook Pages with the Page connected to: creates: Browser. 80 90 The 'Page Browser' allows users to discover Face- book Pages that pertain to their inertest. By "liking" community pages, groups and events. pieces of content each month. More Beautiful Photos. hoto size is increased pixels. More than 30 billion pieces of content are shared each month. including: web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc. October 2010 The Social Network hits theaters. Drop.io: A private sharing service founded by Sam •. + .io Lessin, a long time friend of Mark Zucker- berg. Lessin was the only employee who joined Facebook in the acquisition. The Mark Zuckerberg- "Social Network" PR Battle - The Hollywood Reporter.com Telling The Story of Friendships. These are the new 'Friendship Pages'. They contain Facebook's Mark Zuckebergy braces for •. wall posts, comments between two friends, photos 'The Social Network - Latimes.com in which both are tagged, events they RSVP'd for together, videos etc. November Walletin: See the Messages that Matter. 2010 + Was a small gaming start-up in the stealth phase. The new 'messages' allows users to send and receive The acquisition came with two heavy hitters, Cory Ondrejka (CTO of Linden Labs) & Bruce Rogers 'messages' through any medium: SMS, Chat, Email or Messages. In addition, every user who wants one, will receive an @facebook.com email address. (former coder at Atari). This was a move to help capitalize on the rise of online gaming. zenbe: The acquisition included just 3 employees from this small messaging startup. Most likely, this was an effort to expand Facebook messages. zen W BE December FB owner, Mark Zuckerberg, was named A new and improved profile format was rolled 2010 Time Magazine's Person of the Year. out. Users now have the option to switch over to the new profile or keep the old one. Flowtown. Sources mashable.com / blog.facebook.com / insidefacebook.com I divvyshot facebook O Search Home Profile Account Facebook 2010: The Saga Continues The social networking prodigy is growing at an astounding rate. Far from just a fad, Facebook is proving that it is here to stay. However, not without internal changes and external criticisms. Let's take a look inside the social service's biggest year yet. Scandals Major Growth Milestones New or Negative Headlines Kinds of News Acquistions Features Timeline: January 2010 New default privacy settings set the sections About New privacy settings mean that one can no longer hide: their profile picture, networks, friend's list, current city, and the pages that they are a "fan" of from being broadcast on their wall. The changes also include inability to hide one's activity (liking or com- menting, becoming friends, writing on a wall, etc.) Me, Family and Relationships, Work and Education and Post's I Create (which includes Status Updates, Links, Photos, Videos and Notes), to "Everyone" – aka the entire internet. One must manually change this. Facebook Founder on Privacy: Public is the New "Social Norm" Why Facebook's Privacy Changes - Mashable.com, Jan 10th. are Detrimental to User - Mashable.com, Jan 12th. February 2010 Over 400 Million users on the site: Octazen: A small, Malaysian based contact importing software company. Over 100 Million users on Facebook Mobile; Octazen's software allows Facebook users to import contacts from their Facebook Chat Goes Universal. email accounts, making it easier to Users are able to integrate their Facebook chat with the instant messaging client of their choice. Allows user to chat with friends on Facebook through third party IM, even while not on the site. find friends on the network, as well as invite friends to join. March Bigger Photos for better Viewing. Users can now upload photos up to 720 pixels - a 20% increase (previously 604 pixels) 50% 2010 of active users log on to Facebook in any given day The average user has: 130 April 2010 divvyshot: A group photo sharing service. divvyshot friends. was designed to allow users to easily share photo albums, known as events, as well as allow multiple users to contribute People spend over 700 billion photos to a certain event. Facebook likely acquired divvyshot to allow for event tagging in photos. minutes per month on Facebook May 2010 ShareGrove: Facebook: Friend, Foe or Fenemy? Mark Zucker- berg and company may be technological whizzes. But they've got a lot to learn about customer and public relations - Newsweek.com, May 27th Was designed to allow Facebook friends to gather in private chat rooms and share content - links, photos and media. This was most likely a move to beef up their private chat (IM) features. Facebook's Gone Rogue: It's Time for an Open Alternative Wired.com, May 7th Facebook Events: Now Making Casual Get-Togethers Easier. For all events you create, the people you invite will be able to post messages, photos, videos and links on the event's Wall. You can also choose between two types of events: a public event, and a private event. June 2010 'I like your comment' button: You like this. Users can now "like" other user's comments made within comments. July 2010 Over 500 Million Users Helping Newcomers Connect to Interests. Newcomers can find interesting Facebook "Pages," due to receiving suggestions based on what people in a similar demographic like. nextstop: A social travel startup, was a site Hot Potato: that allowed members to share short + recommendations, with photos, nextstop Hot Potato was a site that helped friends and fans to socialize and maps and other media, for things to do in places all over the world. share experiences around live events. August 2010 Chai Labs: There are over Chi Labs was a semantic search startup. Facebook most likely made the acquisition, which included former Google Ad Sense Executive, to work on 900 million objects that people interact with advertising targeting as well as increasing search performance and relativity. including: pages, groups, events & community pages. Control Your Information Anywhere, Anytime. Users can now access all of Facebook's privacy controls from any browse- enabled mobile device. The average user is The average user September 2010 Discover Facebook Pages with the Page connected to: creates: Browser. 80 90 The 'Page Browser' allows users to discover Face- book Pages that pertain to their inertest. By "liking" community pages, groups and events. pieces of content each month. More Beautiful Photos. hoto size is increased pixels. More than 30 billion pieces of content are shared each month. including: web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc. October 2010 The Social Network hits theaters. Drop.io: A private sharing service founded by Sam •. + .io Lessin, a long time friend of Mark Zucker- berg. Lessin was the only employee who joined Facebook in the acquisition. The Mark Zuckerberg- "Social Network" PR Battle - The Hollywood Reporter.com Telling The Story of Friendships. These are the new 'Friendship Pages'. They contain Facebook's Mark Zuckebergy braces for •. wall posts, comments between two friends, photos 'The Social Network - Latimes.com in which both are tagged, events they RSVP'd for together, videos etc. November Walletin: See the Messages that Matter. 2010 + Was a small gaming start-up in the stealth phase. The new 'messages' allows users to send and receive The acquisition came with two heavy hitters, Cory Ondrejka (CTO of Linden Labs) & Bruce Rogers 'messages' through any medium: SMS, Chat, Email or Messages. In addition, every user who wants one, will receive an @facebook.com email address. (former coder at Atari). This was a move to help capitalize on the rise of online gaming. zenbe: The acquisition included just 3 employees from this small messaging startup. Most likely, this was an effort to expand Facebook messages. zen W BE December FB owner, Mark Zuckerberg, was named A new and improved profile format was rolled 2010 Time Magazine's Person of the Year. out. Users now have the option to switch over to the new profile or keep the old one. Flowtown. Sources mashable.com / blog.facebook.com / insidefacebook.com I divvyshot facebook O Search Home Profile Account Facebook 2010: The Saga Continues The social networking prodigy is growing at an astounding rate. Far from just a fad, Facebook is proving that it is here to stay. However, not without internal changes and external criticisms. Let's take a look inside the social service's biggest year yet. Scandals Major Growth Milestones New or Negative Headlines Kinds of News Acquistions Features Timeline: January 2010 New default privacy settings set the sections About New privacy settings mean that one can no longer hide: their profile picture, networks, friend's list, current city, and the pages that they are a "fan" of from being broadcast on their wall. The changes also include inability to hide one's activity (liking or com- menting, becoming friends, writing on a wall, etc.) Me, Family and Relationships, Work and Education and Post's I Create (which includes Status Updates, Links, Photos, Videos and Notes), to "Everyone" – aka the entire internet. One must manually change this. Facebook Founder on Privacy: Public is the New "Social Norm" Why Facebook's Privacy Changes - Mashable.com, Jan 10th. are Detrimental to User - Mashable.com, Jan 12th. February 2010 Over 400 Million users on the site: Octazen: A small, Malaysian based contact importing software company. Over 100 Million users on Facebook Mobile; Octazen's software allows Facebook users to import contacts from their Facebook Chat Goes Universal. email accounts, making it easier to Users are able to integrate their Facebook chat with the instant messaging client of their choice. Allows user to chat with friends on Facebook through third party IM, even while not on the site. find friends on the network, as well as invite friends to join. March Bigger Photos for better Viewing. Users can now upload photos up to 720 pixels - a 20% increase (previously 604 pixels) 50% 2010 of active users log on to Facebook in any given day The average user has: 130 April 2010 divvyshot: A group photo sharing service. divvyshot friends. was designed to allow users to easily share photo albums, known as events, as well as allow multiple users to contribute People spend over 700 billion photos to a certain event. Facebook likely acquired divvyshot to allow for event tagging in photos. minutes per month on Facebook May 2010 ShareGrove: Facebook: Friend, Foe or Fenemy? Mark Zucker- berg and company may be technological whizzes. But they've got a lot to learn about customer and public relations - Newsweek.com, May 27th Was designed to allow Facebook friends to gather in private chat rooms and share content - links, photos and media. This was most likely a move to beef up their private chat (IM) features. Facebook's Gone Rogue: It's Time for an Open Alternative Wired.com, May 7th Facebook Events: Now Making Casual Get-Togethers Easier. For all events you create, the people you invite will be able to post messages, photos, videos and links on the event's Wall. You can also choose between two types of events: a public event, and a private event. June 2010 'I like your comment' button: You like this. Users can now "like" other user's comments made within comments. July 2010 Over 500 Million Users Helping Newcomers Connect to Interests. Newcomers can find interesting Facebook "Pages," due to receiving suggestions based on what people in a similar demographic like. nextstop: A social travel startup, was a site Hot Potato: that allowed members to share short + recommendations, with photos, nextstop Hot Potato was a site that helped friends and fans to socialize and maps and other media, for things to do in places all over the world. share experiences around live events. August 2010 Chai Labs: There are over Chi Labs was a semantic search startup. Facebook most likely made the acquisition, which included former Google Ad Sense Executive, to work on 900 million objects that people interact with advertising targeting as well as increasing search performance and relativity. including: pages, groups, events & community pages. Control Your Information Anywhere, Anytime. Users can now access all of Facebook's privacy controls from any browse- enabled mobile device. The average user is The average user September 2010 Discover Facebook Pages with the Page connected to: creates: Browser. 80 90 The 'Page Browser' allows users to discover Face- book Pages that pertain to their inertest. By "liking" community pages, groups and events. pieces of content each month. More Beautiful Photos. hoto size is increased pixels. More than 30 billion pieces of content are shared each month. including: web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc. October 2010 The Social Network hits theaters. Drop.io: A private sharing service founded by Sam •. + .io Lessin, a long time friend of Mark Zucker- berg. Lessin was the only employee who joined Facebook in the acquisition. The Mark Zuckerberg- "Social Network" PR Battle - The Hollywood Reporter.com Telling The Story of Friendships. These are the new 'Friendship Pages'. They contain Facebook's Mark Zuckebergy braces for •. wall posts, comments between two friends, photos 'The Social Network - Latimes.com in which both are tagged, events they RSVP'd for together, videos etc. November Walletin: See the Messages that Matter. 2010 + Was a small gaming start-up in the stealth phase. The new 'messages' allows users to send and receive The acquisition came with two heavy hitters, Cory Ondrejka (CTO of Linden Labs) & Bruce Rogers 'messages' through any medium: SMS, Chat, Email or Messages. In addition, every user who wants one, will receive an @facebook.com email address. (former coder at Atari). This was a move to help capitalize on the rise of online gaming. zenbe: The acquisition included just 3 employees from this small messaging startup. Most likely, this was an effort to expand Facebook messages. zen W BE December FB owner, Mark Zuckerberg, was named A new and improved profile format was rolled 2010 Time Magazine's Person of the Year. out. Users now have the option to switch over to the new profile or keep the old one. Flowtown. Sources mashable.com / blog.facebook.com / insidefacebook.com I divvyshot facebook O Search Home Profile Account Facebook 2010: The Saga Continues The social networking prodigy is growing at an astounding rate. Far from just a fad, Facebook is proving that it is here to stay. However, not without internal changes and external criticisms. Let's take a look inside the social service's biggest year yet. Scandals Major Growth Milestones New or Negative Headlines Kinds of News Acquistions Features Timeline: January 2010 New default privacy settings set the sections About New privacy settings mean that one can no longer hide: their profile picture, networks, friend's list, current city, and the pages that they are a "fan" of from being broadcast on their wall. The changes also include inability to hide one's activity (liking or com- menting, becoming friends, writing on a wall, etc.) Me, Family and Relationships, Work and Education and Post's I Create (which includes Status Updates, Links, Photos, Videos and Notes), to "Everyone" – aka the entire internet. One must manually change this. Facebook Founder on Privacy: Public is the New "Social Norm" Why Facebook's Privacy Changes - Mashable.com, Jan 10th. are Detrimental to User - Mashable.com, Jan 12th. February 2010 Over 400 Million users on the site: Octazen: A small, Malaysian based contact importing software company. Over 100 Million users on Facebook Mobile; Octazen's software allows Facebook users to import contacts from their Facebook Chat Goes Universal. email accounts, making it easier to Users are able to integrate their Facebook chat with the instant messaging client of their choice. Allows user to chat with friends on Facebook through third party IM, even while not on the site. find friends on the network, as well as invite friends to join. March Bigger Photos for better Viewing. Users can now upload photos up to 720 pixels - a 20% increase (previously 604 pixels) 50% 2010 of active users log on to Facebook in any given day The average user has: 130 April 2010 divvyshot: A group photo sharing service. divvyshot friends. was designed to allow users to easily share photo albums, known as events, as well as allow multiple users to contribute People spend over 700 billion photos to a certain event. Facebook likely acquired divvyshot to allow for event tagging in photos. minutes per month on Facebook May 2010 ShareGrove: Facebook: Friend, Foe or Fenemy? Mark Zucker- berg and company may be technological whizzes. But they've got a lot to learn about customer and public relations - Newsweek.com, May 27th Was designed to allow Facebook friends to gather in private chat rooms and share content - links, photos and media. This was most likely a move to beef up their private chat (IM) features. Facebook's Gone Rogue: It's Time for an Open Alternative Wired.com, May 7th Facebook Events: Now Making Casual Get-Togethers Easier. For all events you create, the people you invite will be able to post messages, photos, videos and links on the event's Wall. You can also choose between two types of events: a public event, and a private event. June 2010 'I like your comment' button: You like this. Users can now "like" other user's comments made within comments. July 2010 Over 500 Million Users Helping Newcomers Connect to Interests. Newcomers can find interesting Facebook "Pages," due to receiving suggestions based on what people in a similar demographic like. nextstop: A social travel startup, was a site Hot Potato: that allowed members to share short + recommendations, with photos, nextstop Hot Potato was a site that helped friends and fans to socialize and maps and other media, for things to do in places all over the world. share experiences around live events. August 2010 Chai Labs: There are over Chi Labs was a semantic search startup. Facebook most likely made the acquisition, which included former Google Ad Sense Executive, to work on 900 million objects that people interact with advertising targeting as well as increasing search performance and relativity. including: pages, groups, events & community pages. Control Your Information Anywhere, Anytime. Users can now access all of Facebook's privacy controls from any browse- enabled mobile device. The average user is The average user September 2010 Discover Facebook Pages with the Page connected to: creates: Browser. 80 90 The 'Page Browser' allows users to discover Face- book Pages that pertain to their inertest. By "liking" community pages, groups and events. pieces of content each month. More Beautiful Photos. hoto size is increased pixels. More than 30 billion pieces of content are shared each month. including: web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photo albums, etc. October 2010 The Social Network hits theaters. Drop.io: A private sharing service founded by Sam •. + .io Lessin, a long time friend of Mark Zucker- berg. Lessin was the only employee who joined Facebook in the acquisition. The Mark Zuckerberg- "Social Network" PR Battle - The Hollywood Reporter.com Telling The Story of Friendships. These are the new 'Friendship Pages'. They contain Facebook's Mark Zuckebergy braces for •. wall posts, comments between two friends, photos 'The Social Network - Latimes.com in which both are tagged, events they RSVP'd for together, videos etc. November Walletin: See the Messages that Matter. 2010 + Was a small gaming start-up in the stealth phase. The new 'messages' allows users to send and receive The acquisition came with two heavy hitters, Cory Ondrejka (CTO of Linden Labs) & Bruce Rogers 'messages' through any medium: SMS, Chat, Email or Messages. In addition, every user who wants one, will receive an @facebook.com email address. (former coder at Atari). This was a move to help capitalize on the rise of online gaming. zenbe: The acquisition included just 3 employees from this small messaging startup. Most likely, this was an effort to expand Facebook messages. zen W BE December FB owner, Mark Zuckerberg, was named A new and improved profile format was rolled 2010 Time Magazine's Person of the Year. out. Users now have the option to switch over to the new profile or keep the old one. Flowtown. Sources mashable.com / blog.facebook.com / insidefacebook.com I divvyshot