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If you want to hear the bright side of a company, you ask the CEO. If you want to hear the challenges, you ask the COO (unless the company is failing, in which case you ask the CFO). If you want to hear the truth, you talk to the CTO. That’s exactly what the BBC did last week when they asked their customary three questions of Facebook’s Chief Technology Officer Bret Taylor. His reply was not only telling, but very likely a major revelation about where Facebook (and more importantly, people developing on the Facebook platform) is going in the very near future. What’s the Next Big Tech Thing in Your Industry?…

Those of you who have ever found yourself wishing you could merge the simplicity of a social networking tool like Facebook with the needs of business now have one more option with Teamlab, a robust and impressive online collaboration and project management tool from Ascensio Systems. Similar in many ways to ubiquitous software Basecamp, Teamlab is a free, web-based system that allows you to manage projects and communicate with other employees using a simple, well-designed interface. The newest version of Teamlab adds a couple of main features, and is now broken down into 3 main parts: TM Community,…

Among the list of things I believe I can speak on behalf of everyone at Techi about, it’s that we were probably never going to talk about popular rapper and pop culture curiosity T-Pain. Colour us all the most vibrant hues of wrong. Pouring his poetic mastery of the English language into Twitter’s loving arms, T-Pain has made the world privvy to his newest tattoo: the Facebook Like button. There’s not much to say about this, beyond a well-deserved, wide-eyed ‘wow’ of disbelief. “I think this ones pretty sweet,” claims T-Pain’s tweet, “unless facebook shuts down soon 0_o”. It’s a good bet you’re safe…

After failing miserably and discontinuing their attempt at “going social” last year, Netflix is giving it another run. This time, they’re getting help from a company that has experience in social media. Their integration will be with Facebook. You may have heard of them. Wednesday, Netflix announced what they described as “an extensive Facebook integration” in a shareholders’ letter that accompanied their quarterly earnings report. While integration with Facebook is becoming more and more common, this particular move is striking because they are planning to change much of the way…

When Facebook, Microsoft, and a mysterious website known as Make-My-Baby go to town, everyone wins. Everyone, that is, except for us. The company uses a fairly simple affiliate marketing technique that is not only spammy but also potentially dangerous. It lures people in via Facebook ads… a lot of them. Only AT&T and Match.com contribute more to the $1.86 billion in yearly ad revenue that Facebook receives. Once visitors arrive at the site, they are prompted to install a toolbar plugin to “present an enhanced experience” for their users. At this point, you should run away. Once installed,…

Long long ago, in that distant, ancient era of the 2000′s, we heard unending chatter about this thing called ‘the semantic web’. The semantic web was supposed to be like the holy grail of technology. At its heart, it was meant to do two things: to make all that impersonal data online accessible in regular, everyday language; and to make connections between that data in ways that aren’t always readily apparent. There were a bunch of promising apps. Two of the biggest were Twine – which has since become evri – and Glue, which is now Getglue. But now, those two semantic apps are social apps. And in 2011,…

Keep smiling, Mark. In a recent email from SecondMarket, the latest auction of Facebook shares hit $28.26, up 24% from just before the holidays and putting the unofficial valuation north of $70 billion. How high will it go? Any speculation regardless of one’s level of expertise is futile. This is uncharted territory – an Internet firm with no tangible products other than advertising skyrocketing in prominence and taking over the attention of the online world. Here is the body of the email: Subject: Privileged and Confidential – SecondMarket’s Facebook Auction Update To Facebook market…

It’s clear that Facebook is absolutely huge and getting absolutely huger every day. It’s getting so embedded into many of our lives that some couldn’t imagine not having it. Facebook facts are everywhere and it seems that the infographics associated with them are equally prevalent, but this one stuck out as interesting. While it has been published on several different blogs, (which we found out after originally seeing it on Automotive Social Media) it’s quality is strong enough to make us give it one more shot at exposure. Are you obsessed with Facebook? Via: Online Schools…

According to the security gurus Trend Micro, the most dangerous site on the net in 2010 was none other than google.com. Of course, no one would believe this out of hand – Google’s had its problems in the last year, what with user privacy snafus and other ballyhoo, but when you consider Google’s immense popularity, it becomes a different story. Factoring Google’s reputation as the (second-)most visited site on the net (Facebook passed it this past year), it is a prime target for blackhat SEO schemes, leading to all manner of malware and other threats. Naturally, it takes two to tango, and the user…

Venture Capitalists and private investment analysts often throw out lofty numbers when talking about the value of a company, but such entities rarely make substantial investments based upon those claims. When “The Street” makes such a valuation, there is normally real money involved. Such is the case with Facebook as respected investment firm Goldman Sachs and an undisclosed Russian firm have plopped down $500 million against a $50 billion valuation. That kind of money will poise Facebook to bring in more talent, improve infrastructure, and take some risks with their monetization platform….