Here’s the setup: Since I’m about a month away from being done with University and entering the programmer workforce, I’ve taken to asking my classmates what type of starting salaries they’re getting at their first jobs. The Programmer Salary Taboo and…..the money shot: To put my money where my mouth is, here’s some information on [...]
It was a terribly difficult decision, but The Minority Report has decided to remove Digg, De.licio.us, Propeller and other never heard of social sharing sites from our sharing bar at the bottom of each post. This site is built using WordPress, and we use a plugin called “Sociable” to do our dirty, social sharing work [...]
I facetiously blogged a few months ago that Facebook users were idiots. Well it turns out that some ARE idiots!! Check out this spurious lawsuit against the social networking giant. The social networking site is facing a lawsuit in which the plaintiffs are complaining that their privacy is being violated when they share photo’s and [...]
John Cook on TechFlash asks the question “Did Microsoft overpay for Facebook?” Good question. Calls into account a bunch of figures and possible valuations. However, notice that’s not what I clipped. Facebook has enough cash in the bank– about $200 million — to last for two years, VentureBeat’s Anthony Ha reports. Did Microsoft overpay for [...]
I don’t use Facebook but I’ve had fun covering the various Facebook headlines here (here, here and here) on the best damned blog anywhere, The Minority Report. Facebook users have lower overall grades than non-users, according to a survey of college students who also ironically said the social networking site does not interfere with studying. [...]
They just go on like that. Facebook began rolling out their much-publicized new user home page redesign today. This refresh brings a revamped page with an improved share box (called the Publisher), new filtering controls, a real-time stream, and a highlights area that shows important items from the stream. We first reported on these changes [...]
Social networking ahead of email?? wow. A Nielsen Online report says two thirds of us now use what it calls “Member Communities,” which includes both social networks and blogs. MCs now make up “the fourth most popular category online – ahead of personal email,” says Nielsen Online. The others are search, portals, and PC software.Social [...]
Stephan Millers post caught my eye today. He asked the basic question, “What Makes You Money”? I didn’t create this blog to make money. It was more because my friends and family (and girlfriend) was tired of hearing me rant and rave about the days news. I needed another outlet before I drove everybody nuts. [...]
Ok, I don’t use Facebook and I don’t use Twitter. I’ve flirted with putting an “add to Twitter” button on the blog or a “follow me on Twitter” button but frankly, you guys don’t give that much of a shit about this stupid blog (if you feel differently, Steve, post in the dofollow comments). So [...]
There are some articles floating around today on Social networking and if it is a saturated field and some statistics on how many friends you may actually interact with online vs. offline. Good read and very educational. Cameron Marlow, a research scientist at Facebook, shared some interesting stats on Facebook users’ social behavior patterns. His [...]
Greg Sterling appears to have broken the news that oodle has partnered with AOL to create AOL Classifieds. Here is a shot of oodles traffic without the juggernaut Craigslist. Cheezhead is also reporting that AOL continues to use CareerBuilder for it’s jobs listings. Cheezhead reports further: The classifieds site, which recently reported an infusion of [...]
John Furrier has posted an interesting video about exponential growth in today’s digital age. Now he’s taking it from the perspective of venture capitalW investing but I think it can stand alone about the growth of any venture that we choose today. In today’s always connected, always on society, a good idea has the potential [...]
Now if I could only get 4 million mobile users to hit this blog daily, I’d be set. Shit, if I could get 4 mobile users to hit this blog daily, I’d be moderately happy… Facebook Has Over 4 Million Daily Mobile Users Last week while at Davos, Mark Zuckerberg mentioned that the company currently [...]
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