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- Zuckerberg: Facebook Photos Used 5 Or 6 Times More Than Competitors — Combined
- Bit.ly Clickabit, Now. Bit.ly Now, Later?
| Zuckerberg: Facebook Photos Used 5 Or 6 Times More Than Competitors — Combined | Top |
| Yesterday, Facebook held a developer’s garage event at their headquarters in Palo Alto. To kick things off, CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage to talk a bit about the history of Facebook. Notably, he focused on Facebook Photos as being a key catalyst that led to everything the social network is today. He noted that when they launched the product, they didn’t have all of the features that their competitors did. For example, they didn’t have high-resolution photos and you couldn’t print them. But one thing they did have was the social element — and this changed everything. “ Those features by themselves were more important than anything else combined ,” Zuckerberg said of the social elements of Facebook Photos. He then dropped the competitor bomb. “ The photo product that we have is maybe five or six times more used than every other product on the web — combined, ” Zuckerberg stated. Wow. Everyone knows Facebook Photos is huge, but if Zuckerberg’s stats are accurate, it’s becoming YouTube-level huge compared to their competitors. Of course, what he means by “used” isn’t entirely clear — do they just browse more, or upload more as well? Either way, it’s massive. And it was clear from both Zuckerberg and CTO Bret Taylor’s talk at the event that photos to them was the harbinger of things that eventually came — and will still come. Taylor noted that he had been “ brainwashed by Silicon Valley ” before he saw and understood the power of Facebook Photos (he was likely working at Google at the time). He had been thinking like an engineer about the best way to organize photos on the web. But he quickly realized that “t he best possible organization of photos is around people ,” Taylor said. “ There are ten other industries waiting to have this type of disruptio n,” Taylor said noting the travel industry, e-commerce, and music as a few of them. Earlier, Zuckerberg agreed. Because of the social element, “ every single vertical will be transformed. “ CrunchBase Information Facebook Information provided by CrunchBase | |
| Bit.ly Clickabit, Now. Bit.ly Now, Later? | Top |
| Today on their blog, URL shortening service Bit.ly unveiled a cute new feature: Clickabit . It’s a Twitter account that surfaces some of the “ surprising and bizarre ” links being shortened and shared across their network. But the feature also hints at something we’ve been talking about for a while: Bit.ly Now. “ We're currently hard at work on several systems that will expose some of the interesting data we're playing with. In the meantime, we'd like to introduce @clickabit ,” Bit.ly writes in the post. They key part is obviously the first half. We’ve known for a while that Bit.ly has been planning some sort of service to expose the best links being shared across the web — kind of like Tweetmeme or Digg. But Bit.ly links are shared on email and Facebook too; it would be about more than Twitter. Actually, Bit.ly Now has existed for sometime — on Twitter . But today, Bit.ly switched that account over to be the Clickabit one (the old tweets from 2009 when Bit.ly was using the account to surface popular Bit.ly links have been transfered over as well — and they have yet to change the bio from the Bit.ly Now one). They still control the @bitlynow account, and have switched the icon. The only tweet from the account now reads “ Follow the puffer fish to @ clickabit ! “ It would seem that they’re finally preparing to do something more with this account. Something like a system to “ expose some fo the interesting data we’ve playing with “, perhaps. It’s an interesting time in the popular link surfacing space. Tweetmeme is in the process of morphing into something else following Twitter’s launch of their own tweet button. Meanwhile, Digg has just launched the latest version of their site (version 4), in an attempt to try and recapture the link sharing crown. Then of course there’s Facebook. That Like button is everywhere. CrunchBase Information bit.ly Information provided by CrunchBase | |
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