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On the Internet, size is everything. From May, 2008 to May, 2009, Facebook started knocking off established sites and moving up in the comScore rankings. MySpace, Amazon, eBay, AOL – one by one they fell to the exponential growth that Mark Zuckerberg’s social network was experiencing. When Facebook shot passed Wikipedia 18 months ago, many wondered if they would make it into the distant top tier where the three Internet giants roamed. Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo! were still miles ahead of Facebook with more than double the monthly unique visitors. Top Tier, you officially have a new member….

We knew it was only a matter of time. As the online world continues to gravitate towards Facebook as a central hub for many of our Internet activities, integration of business tools was the next step along the road to world domination increased profits for the social networking giant. By teaming up with startups, vendors, and even rivals, Facebook is poised to turn shopping into more of a social experience and become a supplement for companies currently using eCommerce to put their products where the consumers are spending large chunks of their time. That’s their hope as Facebook ramps up their…

Person of the Year is a fairly substantial award given out by TIME magazine annually. Nearing the end of this year, however, the award seemed to be up in the air. Who has managed to accomplish anything significant this year? Julian Assange? Maybe. But there was another, and he had a far more personal impact on the world than anyone else today. It just so happened to be Mark Zuckerberg. The 26-year-old phenom has accomplished more in these past five years than most accomplish in their entire life. Not too bad for someone who, not too long ago, was considered to be a boy filling the shoes of a man. Now he has…

Perhaps Mark Z has to be given some props – after all, Facebook is a little popular.  But is he deserving of the title ‘person of the year’? According to TIME, for sure. And they’ve got good reason: as well as being The Facebook Guy, Zuckerberg has been spending his time of late being philanthropic as hell, pledging $100 million to the Newark, NJ school system, and joining Giving Pledge, a Bill Gates and Warren Buffett joint urging America’s billionaires to give more. That kind of sounds like a disease. Philanthropy, I mean. Dave, I’ve got terminal osteo-philanthropy. But is Zuckerberg really deserving…

2010 was, even more so than most, a rollercoaster year for tech. From the glossy newness of the iPad, to the frenzy surrounding Wikileaks, to the rise of Android, to the continuing explosion of Facebook and Twitter, it seemed the pace of change just kept on accelerating. Still, like any year, not all of that change was good. From the entrenchment of big media to  the ambivalence of ‘hacktivism’, 2010 had some disturbing trends for tech. Here are my picks for some of the worst. Old Media, Clinging to the Past While 2010 had some old media success stories – like the success of the The Atlantic or the unprecedented…

We already know that Facebook is huge, but now we have true visual feedback to how impressive the Facebook empire really stands. It is massive. And it is clear that all of Europe and the Eastern United States have too much time on their hands. But what is even more impressive is that the above picture isn’t actually wasn’t supposed to look like our world, but it does anyways. Paul Butler, a Facebook intern who should clearly earn a job at the company, took a data set of over ten million friendship connections and plotted those connections to city points on essentially a black digital image canvas, and…

In yet another bizarre twist in the Facebook story, now  made very public by “The Social Network” movie, a man who was partnered with the Winklevoss twins in a business venture is now suing them for a slice of their Facebook cut. Chang and the Winklevoss brothers merged the Winklevoss property, ConnectU, with Chang’s web development business. As part of the settlement with Mark Zuckerberg, the Winklevoss twins sold ConnectU to Facebook for millions of dollars, and Chang was essentially cut out of that deal. According to his complaint, he and the Winklevoss duo “expressly agreed that the litigation…

If you haven’t heard, Facebook is a pretty prominent site. In this latest update to the World Map of Social Networks, Vincenzo Cosenza from Vincos.it displays what most who use social media likely already knew: Facebook is taking over the world. They are surpassing local and country-specific social networks to tie the world into one global web unlike anything since the invention of, well, The Web. Mixi and Hyves are the only other sites that are more popular than Facebook in multiple countries, while 8 other social networks still reign in their home countries. For now. At least Google’s Orkut…

You hear a lot of jokes at MySpace’s expense about how it’s not relevant anymore, and how only losers still attempt to create a social presence via MySpace (I am of course excluding bands, who are by all rights the only users at this point who should, in fact, continue to use MySpace as a promotional tool). These jokes are, for the most part, justified. MySpace is hardly relevant. Though, to its credit, the new MySpace redesign is one of the most beautiful I’ve seen, bar none. The logo alone is the stuff of a branding student’s portfolio: far too sexy and obscure to be applied. Yet it was. Brilliant. Anyway,…

Before seeing this graphic, I thought I was in the majority. Apparently, Facebook gaming is grabbing more than just the geeks in their mothers’ basement with no significant other in the real world. The growing phenomenon of social gaming has created 3 camps: those who do it and love it, those who hate it and want it killed with fire, and those who are able to ignore it or don’t even know it exists. This graphic shows that there are a lot more people than most would imagine playing Ravenwood Fair. LOLapps, the creators of the wildly popular game, has gone through much adversity on their road to success….