Yammer Time: In 2011 ...

Yammer grew like crazy last year. How crazy? Product VP Jim Patterson just tweeted out the Yammer 2011 Year in Review infographic below with the comment: “Pretty much everything tripled.” Paid seats went from 300,000 to 800,000, total users went from 1.6 million to 4 million...

Hitwise: Facebook.com N...

In case you happened to be the victim of a day-long coma yesterday, it was a very exciting day for Mark Zuckerberg , Silicon Valley, and that quaint little social network we’ve all come to know, love, and be terrified of. Facebook filed its S-1 on Thursday with the crystal clear...
IPO Be Damned, Facebook Will Still Prioritize User Experience

IPO Be Damned, Facebook...

For those not from Silicon Valley or Wall Street, there’s only 1 thing you really need know about  Facebook’s plan to become a publicly traded company : Your Facebook won’t be suddenly overrun with ads. Facebook bluntly warns greedy investors “Our culture...
Keen On… Sonic.net: Why Fiber Is The Future Of Wired Connectivity

Keen On… Sonic.net: W...

It’s always nice to see a small, plucky start-up take on the big guys and not only survive but also prosper. My excellent Santa Rosa based ISP Sonic.net is doing just that – laying its own fiber-to-the-premises network in Sebastopol for only $70 a month and signing up 30% of...
Visualizing Facebook’s Media Storage: How Big Is 100 Petabytes?

Visualizing Facebook’...

Just a little tidbit from everyone’s favorite reading material this week, the Facebook IPO filing : the company noted that it now stores over 100 petabytes of media (photos and videos) uploaded by its 845 million users. In case “100 petabytes” didn’t blow you...

Coming Off Big Holiday ...

Sincerely , the maker of mobile apps that let you send your photos as print postcards, is pushing out a new version of its Sincerely Ink app today. The main change is that the theme now features Valentine’s Day cards, as well as other themes like Birthdays or New Year’s. Not...
Facebook Wants All Two Billion Internet Users, But Growth Rates Are Slowing

Facebook Wants All Two ...

Make no mistake about Facebook’s ambitions. “There are more than two billion global Internet users,” its S-1 filing states , “…and we aim to connect all of them.” As evidence of its ability to reach this goal, the company says that it already has some...
“Think Profit.”

“Think Profit.”...

When Steve Jobs took the stage at Macworld in 1998, he did something unusual. For the first time in any presentation he had ever given, he ended with a slide reading, “Oh, and one more thing…” This phase would of course enter the Apple lexicon in the subsequent years....

Facebook Ads Becoming (...

In the S-1 filing for Facebook’s IPO, the company offers a little more insight into its advertising business, which it describes as “the substantial majority” of its revenue (and that’s an understatement). In 2009, advertising accounted for 98 percent of...

Nintendo Partners With ...

The Nintendo 3DS just got a bit more connected. The gaming company has teamed with free-hotspot.com to provide 5,000 access points to 3DS owners throughout 22 European companies. 3DSs can now hop online while abroad at various locations including McDonalds, Burger King, KFC, Subway, Ibis...

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