Category Archives: Facebook

Did Facebook just kill Foursquare and Gowalla?

By Richard Forster | Published: August 19, 2010
I’m not a fan of Facebook, always thought it was pretty pointless unless you were under the age of 20.  However now that they have just released Places I think it’s pretty likely they are going to take a huge chunk of the location market, essentially for two reasons: They have a massive (500m) user [...]
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The Facebook backlash is growing

By Richard Forster | Published: May 12, 2010
Jason Calacanis has written a damning blog post about Mark Zuckerberg overplaying his hand It’s part of a growing backlash to Facebook and it’s attitude to it’s users and it’s partners. I couldn’t agree more. I wrote this on Robert Scoble‘s blog: “The privacy debate is a storm in a teacup. Right now it matters [...]
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