The Future of Location Based Social Networks

Last week Facebook launched Places,  its new feature for geolocalization. As they set foot on a field previously lead by Foursquare and Gowalla, Facebook will take LSBNs to the mass. Although the previous two have seen a massive increase of their userbase, this is nothing to compare to Facebook’s. So now 500 Millions users can check-in places. Great. But then what ? Most of the LSBNs are based on referencing places in which you may... Read More

Facebook is going Facetwit

Facebook has reinvented the social networking, beating in popularity all its predecessors (MySpace and Bebo). It has long lived as the poppy cheery Social Media company and then came Twitter. Micro-blogging. Follwers and not friends. Search. Live stream. Easy access URLs. Facebook didn’t see the threat coming until it was there. Even since, Facebook has made a huge work trying to catch up with Twitter. It changed its (long controversed) new... Read More

Meditel s’incruste sur Facebook ?

Un peu plus tôt ce matin, en naviguant sur Facebook, je me suis rendu compte qu’il y avait une nouvelle bannière qui faisait son apparition (probablement dûe au fait que je sois au Maroc en ce moment): une bannière Meditel ventant les mérites de sa clé 3G+. Le ciblage publicitaire du couple Microsoft/Facebook (le premier gérant les campagnes publicitaires du second) a l’air de faire son petit bonhomme de chemin. Je me demande... Read More