At yesterday's launch of video Skype messaging, Mark Zuckerberg showed this slide of Facebook user growth graph plotted with the launches of Facebook apps like Photos, Messages and the Like Button. Zuckerberg held that each bump in growth was fueled by a technological innovation and that Facebook is currently right at elbow of the hockeystick, waiting for the technological innovation that will propel it upwards.

When asked in the above interview what this innovation could possibly be (Project S [...]

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Most people now know Sean Parker's name from that Academy Award-winning film in which he's a main character. But long before that, his name was well known in the tech world, and especially music circles, as the guy who helped start Napster. In other words, the guy the help bring about the beginning of the end for the music industry as we once knew it. So when he has something to say about the music industry, people listen. And today he had enough to say to write a note on Facebook. What prompted [...]

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Why we share is just as important—arguably more important—than what we share. While research that addresses the what abounds, there aren’t many studies dedicated to the why of content sharing. The New York Times teamed up with Latitude Research to fill this gap in our knowledge with a new study, The Psychology of Sharing, which [...]

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At yesterday's launch of video Skype messaging, Mark Zuckerberg showed this slide of Facebook user growth graph plotted with the launches of Facebook apps like Photos, Messages and the Like Button. Zuckerberg held that each bump in growth was fueled by a technological innovation and that Facebook is currently right at elbow of the hockeystick, waiting for the technological innovation that will propel it upwards.

When asked in the above interview what this innovation could possibly be (Project S [...]

Read More: Facebook’s Andrew Bosworth: “The Most Exciting Things Are Things We’re Not Working On”