Monthly Archives: July 2008

Facebook growing (still, and in new places)

25 July, 2008 – 1:30 am

Facebook is still growing. Numbers show that though the growth has slowed down in North America, South America is growing like crazy: 34.9 % in the last 4 weeks!
I wanna know if this growth is happening in a Spanish / Portuguese version or in the English version of the network. Anybody got more info on [...]

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Bad idea

18 July, 2008 – 2:31 am

I love Social Networks. I love how they help you stay in touch and talk to groups of friends and acquaintances. Businesses should definitely harness the power of Social Networks for their purposes – be it as research & development forums, word-of-mouth amplifiers or for competitor’s analyses. But they should usually stay away from building [...]

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Grassroots politics coverage

13 July, 2008 – 8:47 am

The Huffington Post (if you don’t know it by now, check it out: it is an online newspaper almost entirely made up of guest bloggers) sent me a nice email asking me if I wanted to join OffTheBus. OffTheBus is an initiative, where bloggers all over the US collaborate to report about the elections in [...]

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Facebook politics

3 July, 2008 – 9:08 am

Everybody’s favourite Social Network (well, at least mine) is a useful channel if you want to spread the word during an election. US movement Rock the Vote (are you old enough to remember Madonna posing for Rock the Vote in the early 90ies?? I am… had that picture on my teenage bedroom wall) just built [...]

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