The Facebook Effect by David Kirkpatrick

Book Review: The Facebook Effect - Inside Story of connecting the world

Facebook is now the king of social networking, leaving behind competitors such as MySpace, Hi5 and Orkut is way behind the company is growing at an incredible pace. It is therefore an ideal time to generate a detailed study on the social networking will be! Its history and condition. She got half a billion users and that number is still growing, while also gaining a lot of private funding. Facebook is undoubtedly the most important social program that has ever hit the net.

In the book "The Facebook Effect," a former editor of Fortune Magazine's David Kirkpatrick and technology research company structure that has received strong foothold in the networking sector. He delves into the causes and inner workings that are current media giant Facebook is. All well-known story -. From "borrowing" (? Theft) of the original concept from ConnectU and houseSYSTEM, the fever frequency growth beyond the early stage investor meetings, the move from Harvard to Palo Alto

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

He is also given on why some of the features and applications become a raving success as Farmville and Mafia Wars while some have turned to external faults such as the Beacon. Other issues are also explained as privacy, advertising vs. user experience related to the applications themselves.

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

of revolutionary changes in social behavior that emanates from the 19-year-old student Facebook effect.