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Asia Continues to be Facebook's Strongest Growth Region
By Ben LoricaNovember 20, 2009
With Facebook topping 330 million active users over the past week, the company's strongest growth region continues to be Asia. Over the last 12 weeks, Facebook added close to 17M active users in Asia alone. Since my previous post, the share of active users from Asia grew by 2% (to 13.5% of all users), and roughly 1 in 7 users...
There are Over a Million People Actively Using Facebook Right Now
By Ben LoricaSeptember 24, 2009
A little over a week ago Facebook reached a major milestone: 300 million active users. The fastest-growth region continues to be Asia, but growth in other overseas regions such as the Americas and Africa have also been strong. Currently reaching only 1% of potential users in Asia and Africa, Facebook has barely scratched the surface in both regions: Growth in...
Four short links: 30 July 2009
By Nat TorkingtonJuly 30, 2009
iPhone App v1.3 Released -- revealing glimpse into how third-party apps (such as this iPhone app, built on the Brooklyn Museum's API) reflect on the institution providing the API. Brooklyn Museum has dealt with this sensitively and intelligently, a model to all. As always, I want to marry the Brooklyn Museum and raise a posse of online apps. Embrace...
Facebook Adds Million of Users in Asia
By Ben LoricaJune 19, 2009
Since my previous post on Facebook users by country, the company has grown rapidly in Asia. Over the last 12 weeks, Facebook grew 90% in Asia going from 11.4 to 21.7 million active users. With a Market Penetration of only 0.6% in Asia, Facebook has barely scratched the surface in the region. The company also gained 11.3M users in Europe...
2 Years Later, the Facebook App Platform is Still Thriving
By Ben LoricaMay 13, 2009
In a few weeks, the Facebook application platform will mark its second anniversary. While it garnered lots of press coverage in the months after it launched, the arrival of the iTunes app store shifted attention away from Facebook's vibrant ecosystem. The media glow is understandable: among other things, the younger iTunes platform is adding apps at a much faster rate...
Importance of Innovation in Finance & BarCampBank
April 20, 2009
“Progress is not the mere correction of evils. Progress is the constant replacing of the best there is with something still better.” -Edward Filene Two years ago, when we were organizing the first BarCampBank in the US, many people found it hard to believe that banks & credit unions could a place for meaningful grassroots innovation. Even crazier was...
Active Facebook Users By Country
By Ben LoricaApril 19, 2009
Since I last posted numbers on Facebook's user base six week ago, the company has added close to 20 million active users. I've had a few requests for detailed numbers by country so I quickly assembled an update for each of the regions shown above....
Facebook is Growing Fast in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East
By Ben LoricaMarch 5, 2009
With Facebook recently passing 175 million users, I decided to update my analysis of its user base. The weekly growth in number of users has remained steady, with the last 5 weeks being exceptionally strong: Facebook added over 25 million users since early February. The share of U.S. users inched up slightly from 30% to 31%. The company added users...
Facebook in 2010: no longer a walled garden
By David RecordonMarch 4, 2009
A lot of what I've been working on the past two years has been built on the assumption that the model that social networks use today will fundamentally change. Social networks have largely been built on the premise of being walled gardens in such a way that users can't communicate or share content or friends across networks; put simply this is what keeps a Facebook user from being able to send a message to a MySpace user. This is the same model that destroyed AOL, CompuServe and Prodigy's ISP businesses when normal people chose the Internet itself versus their thoughtfully curated walled gardens.
Building RESTful Services with XQuery and XRX
By Kurt CagleJanuary 24, 2009
I've been banging on the RESTful services/XRX bandwagon for a while now, and the good folks at O'Reilly have kindly consented to let me get out the entire trap drum set for an O'Reilly Webinar entitled "Building RESTful Services with XQuery and XRX".
Analysis 2009: XForms and XML-enabled clients gain traction with XQuery databases
By Kurt CagleJanuary 6, 2009
I'm beginning to despair about XForms, which is perhaps a good sign. XForms is perhaps the oldest of the W3C technologies that has yet to either die completely or really dramatically take off, and for all that it has...
XForms for Prototyping
By Philip FennellDecember 1, 2008
A high-fidelity prototype provides the engineers and QA organization with a rich, interactive description of the product's intended functionality and design to be used as a reference basis for implementation and test. Whenever this subject is raised my thoughts turn immediately to XForms. The advantage of prototyping with XForms is that it is quick, declarative, readable and is well defined.
Five RESTful Friends
November 11, 2008
Sometimes in computing, as in life, we are surrounded by friends that are standing by to help us. But unless we are aware our friends exist and we give them the information they need to help us, we will not be able to take advantage of their services. Here is a brief overview of five web application friends you may not be aware of that are standing by to help you with your web application performance.
XRX and Context Delivery Architecture
By Dan McCrearyNovember 6, 2008
What if your web applications could all be quickly customized based on needs of a specific person, role or group? What if you could start out with one general form but it could be easly customized for different roles, groups or class of users? We call these forms CoDA (for Context Delivery Architecture) forms because they can take advantage of the context aware features of the XRX architecture.
Becoming a Sexy Programmer: Clean Forms
By Eric BerryOctober 8, 2008
Learn how easy it is to stylize a form with CSS versus using table tags.
The Confusion Between Content and Containers
By Mac SlocumOctober 6, 2008
The digital realm allows content and containers to exist separately, but their old bond is still tough to break
The Future of XForms
By Philip FennellOctober 2, 2008
Some of the recent talk on the Mozilla XForms Project's mailing list (dev-tech-xforms) has been about the winding-down in effort on the Mozilla XForms plug-in. There has been praise for the efforts of those developers involved in the project, and quite rightly so. However, some people may be seeing this as a bad sign for XForms in general. Well, not so I say and the reasons for this are three-fold...
Metaphorical Web and XRX
By Kurt CagleOctober 1, 2008
Contrary to popular opinion, anger is not in fact all that good for a writer - you write, but what you write usually falls into the kind of political diatribes favored by more radical members of fringe parties.
Apple's restrictions mean more jailbreaking & Android adoption
By Jesse RobbinsSeptember 24, 2008
When Apple announced the iPhone SDK last year I said: [...] Jobs makes it clear that the platform won't be completely open. While he says that this is to balance the benefits of an open platform with user security protection, it's unclear where Apple will draw those lines. Will there be a Skype client? Third-party media apps? It would have...
XForms and RESTful Web Services
By Philip FennellAugust 20, 2008
There was one thing missing from XForms 1.0 that would have made all the difference when trying to access RESTful Web Services - the ability to control HTTP headers when making instance data requests and submissions. What compounded the problem was that many of the implementations either inappropriately (in my opinion) set the HTTP Accept header to */* or just adopted the string used by the host browser. This made it nigh-on impossible to request, in a RESTful fashion, an XML representation of the resource you wish to edit...
News Roundup: Digital Text App Uses Facebook, Subject/Author Sites Better than Brands, Saying Goodbye to Audiobook Cassettes
By Mac SlocumJuly 31, 2008
App Mashes Up Digital Text on Facebook Platform Digital Texts 2.0 is an interesting application for Facebook that lets you group and share digital material. It's intriguing to see...
Cloud Computing's Potential Impact on Publishing
By Mac SlocumJuly 22, 2008
The move toward "cloud"-based content distribution raises a host of issues relevant to book publishing. Here's a few that popped onto our radar.
Facebook Growth By Country and the Slowdown in App Usage
By Ben LoricaJuly 21, 2008
With the Facebook Developers conference slated for later this week, I thought it would be a good time to give a brief update of a previous post on Facebook demographics. What follows are recently published number of users by country and region, along with growth rates for select regions and countries. Over the last four weeks, the fastest growing regions were South America, Central America and the Carribean:
TOC Recommended Reading
By Mac SlocumJuly 9, 2008
Ebooks and the Iphone (Publishing Frontier) So by selling books as $5 iPhone books instead of $7 paperbacks, the publisher makes $0.90 per book. And, of course, if the publisher...
Google Book Search: It's All About the Index
By Mac SlocumJune 25, 2008
The public's incorrect assumptions about Google products, including Book Search, misses Google's bigger focus on platform creation.
Lamenting the Digital Decline is a Dangerous Path
By Mac SlocumJune 24, 2008
Harping on the revenue shortfall between digital and traditional content distracts from the bigger questions that need to be asked and answered.
Calling Google a Publisher Underestimates its Platform
By Mac SlocumJune 18, 2008
Misrepresenting Google and other platform companies limits opportunities for publishers.
Service Monitoring Dashboards are mandatory for production services!
By Jesse RobbinsJune 18, 2008
Google App Engine went down earlier today. GAE is still a developer preview release, and currently lacks a public monitoring dashboard. Unfortunately this means that many people either found out from their app and/or admin consoles being unavailable or from Mike Arrington's post on TechCrunch. Google has a strong Web Operations culture, and there are numerous internal monitoring tools in...
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