I just discovered that Facebook now allows you to create and organise your friends into lists! This is fantastic as I have over 1,000 friends, and often not all of them are close enough that I want to monitor daily! This will really allow users to have better control over what they see, and from [...]
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Facebook grabs another $60m investment
Ok – so the $15bn valuation is holding up, according to Kara Swisher. Granted, when it comes to Chinese billionaires, and large software companies that put $240m in for less than 2%, it’s arguable that the valuations are not realistic. Heck, I think I was even the first person to predict that they would get [...]
Open Social : The FaceBook Killer?
Marc Andreessen’s blog post today has been great at helping to explain what Google’s drive around Open Social. After reading the post, I think Facebook may have found some competition for the first time. Two important points to note: Yahoo & MySpace are not participating in the war on Facebook – and I do mean [...]
Facebook hits the #1 spot in South Africa
For the first time in this millenium, Google has been displaced as the #1 accessed website in South Africa – that honour now goes to Facebook, according to Alexa’s stats. I’ve been reading up elsewhere, and it seems that Facebook is the #4 accessed site in the world – I’m anxiously looking forward to hearing [...]
Facebook valued at $15bn – raises $240m from Microsoft
Ok – my bad. I said $10bn – I won’t take it personally if you unsubscribe from my blog. The story is covered by TechCrunch here…
Vinny Lingham is an International Award winning Entrepreneur & Search Engine Marketer. He is currently CEO of Free Website maker, Yola.