Facebook Gets Friend.ly

Social Q&A company Friend.ly has been acquired by Facebook. Hooray? Friend.ly refers to their app as a conversation starter that will help you find new friends and meaningful relationships on Facebook. The app is designed to offer you a list of thought provoking questions that you can either answer or simply approve of answers given by others. Friend.ly suggests that if you say someone’s answer is cool, they’ll probably say you’re cool and there’s no telling where it will go from there. According to All Things Digital , the two-year old company had an impressive growth spurt earlier this year but the numbers don’t tell the whole story. Like many Facebook apps, there’s a big difference between those that signup and those that actively use it on a regular basis. Even if it’s not a top app, it has potential, which is why Facebook plunked down the cash to buy them. There’s something about a meaningless question that makes us all want to stop what we’re doing and write in an answer. Forget the meaning of life. How about the meaning of In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida? The more trivial the question, the more answers you’ll get. Marketing Pilgrim’s Social Channel is proudly sponsored by Full Sail University, where you can earn your Masters of Science Degree in Internet Marketing in less than 2 years. Visit FullSail.edu for more information. The company blog says that Friend.ly will continue to operate as is, even though the Friend.ly team will be focusing on creating new projects for Facebook. Which is code for, everything is going to change and soon. Right now, there’s no significant marketing value in the app since it doesn’t allow you to participate as a Facebook Page and it doesn’t look like you can’t write your own questions. But it will be interesting to see what the company comes up with now that they have Facebook’s backing and blessing.

Steve Jobs’ Stanford Co...

Wow. In the wake of the sad news of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs’ passing, the videos featuring his inspiring speeches and presentations have seen jaw-dropping amount of views . One of Jobs’ most famous and more recent speeches, the commencement speech at Stanford University in 2005 averaged 2,000 daily views in September. Yesterday, the speech saw over 8 million views, according to Visible Measures. His many product presentations at Apple events averaged 24,000 daily views in September (here’s an early one from 1997). Yesterday, these videos generated over 6.8 million views. His interview alongside Bill Gates at All Things Digital averaged 11,000 daily views in September. Yesterday, these videos generated over 850,000 views.  So more than 15 million views overall just in one day. Visible Measure says its accumulated this data across numerous clips for each video available on the web. It’s no question that all of these videos are now a part of our collective memory of Steve Jobs. Crunchbase STEVE JOBS Person: Steve Jobs Website: Companies: Pixar , NeXT , Apple Steve Jobs was the co-founder and CEO of Apple and formerly Pixar. Steve Jobs was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin to Joanne Simpson and a Syrian father. Paul and Clara Jobs of Mountain View, California then adopted him. In 1972, Jobs graduated from Homestead High School in Cupertino, California and enrolled in Reed College in Portland, Oregon. One semester later, he had dropped out, later taking up the study of philosophy and foreign cultures. Steve Jobs had a deep-seated interest in... Learn more : Website: Learn more

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