Tag Archive | "Facebook"

Facebook reaches 500 million users


Facebook, the biggest social network site ever started, has 500 million users now after six years of existence on the web.

The company has grown at a spectacular rate, multiplying its size since last year and boosting international rivalry apart. According to the Facebook, their members are spending more or less 700 billion minutes surfing their Facebook account, as many as 30 billion photographs and linking news articles and websites are contributed through their account.

Mark Zukerberg, the chief executive of Facebook at the age of 26, said in one blog post that the results of how people accept Facebook is very essentials to them for it is their stepping stone in more success. Facebook is soaring high has not been without falls. Most currently, the company was the center of extreme study over variations to its website that promoted members to make more details about themselves approachable to everyone on the Internet.

According to the current survey done by the American Customer Satisfaction Index, users have great contentment when surfing their account in Facebook stood at 64 points over the scale of 100 points, which suited it in the base five percent of the companies deal in the directory. The popularity of Facebook has also encouraged competition from the same as the Google that also spent so much time on the site every month and views billions of links in other websites as a prospect to its business.

Ray Valdes, the analyst of the research firm Gartner said that anything else, the website is very stable in terms of its growth despites of its occurrences only proves the company’s loom. Valdes also added that Facebook has been hostile in pushing users to the limit of their place of comfort. However, Facebook has establishes that it can navigate those confronts and continue to grow.

Posted in WorldComments (0)

Facebook says it connects the world


According to Facebook, they are giving people the opportunity to communicate and make the world more connected and open.

However, the online world outside Facebook is previously very connected and open area. In addition, websites that are connected with other sites can use blogs, pages and news articles are all available to everyone. Instead of contributing to this interconnected and world of websites, the increasing popularity of Facebook is draining it of energy, posts and interest that are seen in public.

Each of the link that is found in the web invites users to click and go in the specific linked that they have seen. These referrals are noticeable to search engines that do far more than recommended. The engines locate backward to who linked to the referrer, then who linked to the referrer of the referrer, and so on.

It is a much computation to obtain educated guesses about which referrals are mostly lead to the best-educated sources of information and then place at the top of result searches page. Moreover, there are no friending is needed to be on top nor company is in exclusive ownership of the interconnections.

Furthermore, the size of the open Web – developed with the help of FAcebook – is difficult to understand. In year 2008, Google declared that its search engine had accumulated one trillion exceptional URLs or Web addresses.

According to Barry Schnitt, the spokesperson of Facebook, that their company offers Google with access to the status updates and profiles of their members for public Facebook pages. Schnitt also said that it also declared plans to work with Microsoft on its Bing search engine that allows Bing to publish the status updates of each member where their settings with their privacy permit to display with everyone.

Posted in WorldComments (0)