Thursday, February 9, 2012

The Facebook Effect by David Kirkpatrick


Book Review: Facebook Effect - Inside Story of a company that connects the world

Facebook is now the king of social networking, leaving behind competitors such as MySpace, Hi5, Orkut, and way behind as the company grows incredibly fast. Therefore, the ideal time to generate a detailed study on the social networking behemoth! Its history and situation. She got half a billion users, and that number continues to grow, while also gaining a lot of private funding. Facebook is undoubtedly the most important social tool that has ever hit the net.

In the book "The Facebook Effect," a former editor of Fortune magazine's David Kirkpatrick technology examines the structure of society, which has gained a strong foothold in the networking sector. He delves into the causes and inner workings that made the current media giant Facebook is. All the familiar story -. The "borrowing" (? Theft) of the original concept from ConnectU and houseSYSTEM, the fever-pitched growth through meetings early stage investors, the move from Harvard in Palo Alto

book seems to have received favorable support of most of the big names associated with the company that is still very young. There are more interviews with Mark Zuckerberg himself. Of all these insights, David tells of a young company that has gone through all the turmoil that every young company faces, and still remain true to their goal of creating an open society, while creating and maintaining social graph. ""

It also gives him about why some of the features and applications has become a Raving Success Farmville and Mafia Wars, and some turned into utter failures, such as the Beacon. Other issues are also explained, such as privacy, advertising vs. customer experience that relates to the application itself.

The author also delves into the life of Mark Zuckerberg in relation to his company Facebook. He seems to have changed when investors wanted more maturity brings to the company. For example he says that when he found a girlfriend, he was actually negotiated in time 100 minutes a week for her. This is a detailed book on Facebook and everything related to it.

revolutionary changes in social behavior that arises from the 19-year-old student has a Facebook effect.

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