http://www.fbbook.com/fblog the blog about the book Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:16:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On June 6, 2007 I boldly predicted this would happen within a year, and now, here it is. Facebook and Myspace have the same amount of traffic according to Alexa! Myspace still exceeds Facebook in the U.S. specifically, but globally, they are identical, and the alexa's reach number ... http://www.fbbook.com/fblog/2007/10/31/facebooks-traffic-equals-myspace/ Never before has an internet site grown as the Facebook. Never. On June 6th, just 4 months ago, I predicted that within a year FB would be larger than myspace, and though this was in no way obvious then, it is now on track to happen before the end of ... http://www.fbbook.com/fblog/2007/10/04/facebooks-growth-approaching-1-whats-next/ Justin Smith's InsideFacebook blog broke that the Facebook API may soon include the functions friends.getLists and friends.getListMembers. These were only visible for a short time, when some internal code (yes, FB developers use the same tools as app developers) was accidentally pushed public. Since organizing my hundreds of ... http://www.fbbook.com/fblog/2007/09/01/i-lust-for-friend-lists-and-more/ Alexa now finally lists Facebook in its top 10, after some lag due to their "3-month average" methodology. Facebook is actually 8th now, having leapfrogged biadu, orkut and wikipedia. If I ignore hi5, as I plan to continue to do for a while, myspace is the next site ... http://www.fbbook.com/fblog/2007/08/22/facebook-is-in-the-global-top-10/ Have any of you ever woken up on a Saturday or Sunday morning to discover that one of your friends has tagged 18 photos of you from the night before that you don’t quite remember taking? Have you ever received 15 comments on your wall from people you don’t know ... http://www.fbbook.com/fblog/2007/08/22/facebook-breakup-a-reader-posts-her-experience/ Perhaps on the back of the Newsweek cover story, FB just burst up to 2.98% reach on Alexa, so will be at 3% imminently. It took 3 months from mid-march to climb from 1% to 2%, and less than 2 months to jump to 3%. The pageviews graph shows even ... http://www.fbbook.com/fblog/2007/08/16/facebook-explodes-to-3-reach-why-is-more-inevitable/ Facebook just jumped into the top ranking for sites in Canada according to Alexa. The very top site by a blend of traffic and reach. There is no reason why this shouldn't happen in the U.S. and U.K. where FB is growing rapidly. I take personal credit for this ... http://www.fbbook.com/fblog/2007/07/20/facebook-is-now-1-in-green-canada/ Over 8000 people have committed to 122,000 green lifestyle choices, with their friends. That's 204,000 Leaves grown. All in just a few weeks, and only organically with zero press or blog coverage. See "I Am Green". "I Am Green" is a networking application for facebook members about caring for the ... http://www.fbbook.com/fblog/2007/07/16/on-facebook-and-green-new-app-has-made-122000-good-acts-easy-with-your-friends/ The FB site has been down this morning, from around 6:30am PST according to my logs, so going over 2 hrs now. I'm suspecting a DOS attack related to the platform changes, discovered around the valley yesterday. I have no evidence for that at all. I did ... http://www.fbbook.com/fblog/2007/06/29/f8-a-developers-wild-west/ The Facebook F8 Platform will propel the site ahead of myspace in total pageviews, within a year. This alexa graph of myspace vs. facebook looks quite innocuous, so my prediction is not self-evident. Myspace has grown above 2.5% of total traffic and claims to be adding 300K new users/day. ... http://www.fbbook.com/fblog/2007/06/06/facebook-will-supercede-myspace-by-june-6-2008/