On January 21, Facebook announced a new function on Facebook Page, this function allows Facebook Page or Facebook application creators to collect emails of their fans. I don’t know about you but I think it’s not safe at all to give out emails to companies these days, even through Facebook. Will email marketing be the [...]

There was a huge discussion 2 weeks ago on China blocking Twitter and other social networks for June 4th Tienanmen Anniversary 2009.
I don’t think we need further analysis and opinion on that issue, but today, Thomas Crampton, Jean-François Amadei and I were lucky enough to meet Chinese journalist and political blogger, Michael Anti (Chinese: 赵静 [...]

Everyone has been talking about the launch of Facebook vanity URLs this Saturday. While blogs are expressing their views on how FB vanity URLs will affect the marketplace through words, I created a simple graphic below showing why Facebook decided to do so. Money doesn’t buy taste…

When is the Dooms Day, where’s the next tsunami, and more recently, when is the end of Newspapers. There are thousands of people who have tried to “predict” the end of newspaper, like psychics and fortune tellers, predictions are just estimations that don’t have enough back-up information. I’m not here to tell you when I [...]

Thousands of people jump into the game of social networking everyday. More than 90% of Internet users own at least one profile page from social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter, linkedIn, myspace and I can continue naming all the sites for the next hour.
People spend more time on the Internet which somehow leads to [...]

Facebook is releasing a Virtual Currency system soon called “Facebook Credit”. Facebook users will then be able to reward friends for their great content on Facebook. Which means in the close future, if I post a funny status update, or a very sexy picture of me, I might get rewarded from my friends.
These credits will [...]