Social Networks
The Facebook Globe
Facebook is now the world’s number one social network, and being number one sure looks pretty. A group of engineers at Facebook have put together Project Palantir, an animated globe showing all the interactions on the social network in real time. Imagine the view from space as 120 million people throw supersonic flaming sheep at each other across the curve of the Earth.
Palantir isn’t live yet, but Facebook is thinking about rolling it out. Which spark are you?
(Via Michael Arrington.)
Multiply is Cheap. ABS-CBN is Stupid.
Last year, also-ran social network Multiply stepped into a petty third-world TV network war by entering into an ad deal with Philippine TV station ABS-CBN. Now Multiply gets pwned in that war — literally. ABS-CBN now owns 5% of Multiply, for the ridiculous price of $5 million.
The sad part is, neither company knows what they’re really offering each other aside from five million dollars for three million Filipino Multiply users. Consider the following statement from ABS-CBN Interactive head Paolo Pineda: Click here to continue reading "Multiply is Cheap. ABS-CBN is Stupid."...
