Following all that, he literally wrote the book on Facebook, calling it The Facebook Effect.
The Facebook effect might surface in your company through Chatter or Yammer.
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David Kirkpatrick, Techonomy founder and author of the The Facebook Effect, led a conversation about the fusion of user experience and monetization.
Facebook cofounder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg described his relationship with Thiel to Kirkpatrick in The Facebook Effect, saying that Thiel provided prudent economic advice as a board member.
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In the recently published book The Facebook Effect, Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg makes some interesting comments about the importance of virtual goods as a new and growing source of income.
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As David Kirkpatrick, author of The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World, notes, companies can use the site for advertising and marketing "based on the extremely exact demographic data volunteered by the individual".
The conversation was guided by Techonomy Media founder David Kirkpatrick, who, as author of the 2010 bestseller The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company that is Connecting the World, is a widely acknowledged expert on the company and the strategies of its founder Mark Zuckerberg.
"The 'Facebook' effect on Chinese Internet companies has already started, " said Sina Chief Financial Officer Herman Yu.
The result is a giant step towards Facebook becoming, in effect, the repository of identity for much of the internet.
In effect, Facebook members (your customers) will be able to search on a topic, and automatically get results that reflect the likes of their Facebook friends.
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This lock-in effect gives Facebook some leverage to control ancillary economic activities both on and off Facebook, as well as make poor anti-user product choices and avoid punishment in the marketplace.
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Now though, the new Facebook Home - in effect a skin you can install to turn an Android phone into a social networking device - seems to be right at the centre of the mobile strategy.
But given that Facebook is where a lot of social circles are these days it would seem likely that this effect carries over to Facebook.
The other side is that social interactions such as those enabled by Facebook also can have the opposite effect, weakening lifestyle brands and decreasing brand equity.
Granted, Mr. Zuckerberg was in Italy enjoying his honeymoon, but I still wonder whether some words to the millions of small investors he personally encouraged to invest in his vision might have had an ameliorating effect on the troubles Facebook has to this day in building stakeholder confidence.
In effect, says Williamson, Facebook is that rare entity that can make its own weather.
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When he realizes those options he will in effect be paid for his work building Facebook.
Given how many more active voters are now on Facebook and other social networks, I imagine that effect will be seen to increase this year.
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The investment vehicle being created by Goldman is intended to pool investors' money to create the legal effect of a single new shareholder in Facebook, since each special-purpose vehicle counts as one shareholder of record.
The investment vehicle being created by Goldman is intended solely to pool investors' money to create the legal effect of a single new shareholder in Facebook, since each special-purpose vehicle counts as one shareholder of record.
This has had an effect on the entire social games ecosystem on Facebook.
In Europe, where the flagship Data Protection Directive came into effect in 1995, before firms such as Google and Facebook were even founded, the European Commission is conducting a review of its privacy policies.
The effect is a little less Huffington Post, a little more Facebook, and considerably more friendly to mobile reading.
Essentially, Facebook is attempting to gather all the data under its own roof, in effect, pulling the rug out from under these services.
These tools will enable Facebook users to share Yahoo content with their friends, and create a viral effect through which Yahoo can attract more traffic.
The media partnerships take effect today, while Timeline will roll out over the coming weeks, according to the official Facebook blog.
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