December 9th, 2007
Facebook’s about-face on privacy a bit late
By Therese Poletti, MarketWatch
“Facebook should have said something earlier, that’s a mistake that they made,” said Jay Meattle, a product marketing manager at Compete.com in Boston, which tracks Web site traffic.
The whole Beacon fiasco does not seem to have had any impact on membership, and it is not clear that it will. Even though some members threatened in their posts on the MoveOn.org group that they would quit Facebook, visits to the site are still surging. According to Compete.com, the number of unique visitors to Facebook in November jumped 20.1%, outpacing growth at the larger MySpace, owned by News Corp, which is buying Dow Jones, the parent of MarketWatch.
“Even with the privacy hoopla and the PR fiasco, Facebook is still growing and it’s growing quickly,” said Meattle of Compete.com.
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December 8th, 2007
Could be a Technorati bug, but I’ll take it!
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My blog posts on Compete.com
All 3 (very aggressive) personal year goals I set back in January for compete.com met, with time to spare :)
* Get the blog to a rank better than Hitwise (smoked Hitwise)
* Cross 500,000 monthly uniques (should do 700,000+ in december)
* 50,000 registered users (crossed 60,000)
Compete.com has been around for just 13 months. Anything is possible ;)
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December 8th, 2007
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December 7th, 2007
“Always build one less car than you have customers.” – Enzo Ferrari
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December 6th, 2007
In the space of a month, Facebook has gone from media darling to devil. However, all the bad PR didn’t hold back Facebook.com traffic in November. Unique visitors jumped 20%:
The big question — Are Facebook users even aware of their worsening privacy situation? Take a look at the chart below. Looks like regular Facebook users are mostly unaware of their worsening situation, or more likely don’t know what to do about it – not good.
According to one Facebook poll, 67% of all respondents had not even heard of the Facebook Beacon.
It’s generally a good idea to put users first, then investors. I hope the good people at Facebook HQ wake up quickly.
(Published on the Compete Blog on 5-Dec-2007)
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