Friday, December 14, 2007

Zuckerberg Facebook Quotes: Before & After Beacon Controversy

The following quotes provide a comparison of Zuckerberg quotes before and after Facebook Beacon controversy.

 

Quotes by Mark Zuckerberg 1 month ago (source: DayLife):

This is some really powerful stuff. Nothing like this has ever been seen before.
1 month ago
We know exactly what gender people are and exactly what age they are
1 month ago
Nothing influences a person more than a recommendation from a trusted friend.
1 month ago
Pushing your message out to people is no longer good enough
You have to get your message out to the conversations.
That's one of the ways Social Ads are going to get flowing in the system
1 month ago
Social actions are powerful because they act as trusted referrals and reinforce the fact that people influence people
Facebook Ads represent a completely new way of advertising online
1 month ago
In the next hundred years, information isn't just going to be pushed out to people. It's going to be shared across the billions of connections that people already have
in CNET
1 month ago
It becomes a trusted referral.
in CNET
1 month ago
Pushing out your message isn't enough anymore.
in CNET
1 month ago
This is some really powerful stuff, and nothing like this has ever been seen before.
in CNET
1 month ago
When people engage your page on Facebook, that's going to spread information about your brand virally through the social graph
in CNET
1 month ago
When you put this all together, you get some pretty amazing things
in CNET
1 month ago
With this interface, you'll be able to target exactly the people that you want
in CNET
1 month ago
Nothing influences people more than a recommendation from a trusted friend
1 month ago

Quotes by Mark Zuckerberg 1 day ago (source: DayLife):

We simply did a bad job with this release, and I apologize for it
3 days ago
We simply did a bad job with this release, and I apologize for it ... While I am disappointed with our mistakes, we appreciate all the feedback we have received from our users.
6 days ago
We’ve made a lot of mistakes building this feature, but we’ve made even more with how we’ve handled them ... We simply did a bad job with this release, and I apologize for it… Instead of acting quickly, we took too long to decide on the right solution. I’m not proud of the way we’ve handled this situation and I know we can do better.
6 days ago
It took us too long after people started contacting us to change the product so that users had to explicitly approve what they wanted to share ... Instead of acting quickly, we took too long to decide on the right solution. I'm not proud of the way we've handled this situation and I know we can do better.
6 days ago
We've made a lot of mistakes building this feature ... We simply did a bad job with this release, and I apologize for it.
I'm not proud of the way we've handled this situation ... and I know we can do better.
1 week ago
We simply did a bad job with this release, and I apologize for it ... While I am disappointed with our mistakes, we appreciate all the feedback we have received from our users. I'd like to discuss what we have learned and how we have improved Beacon.
1 week ago
We've made a lot of mistakes building this feature, but we've made even more with how we've handled them
1 week ago
If you select that you don't want to share some Beacon actions or if you turn off Beacon, then Facebook won't store those actions even when partners send them to Facebook
1 week ago
It took us too long after people started contacting us to change [the Beacon ad program] so that users had to explicitly approve what they wanted to share
1 week ago
We were excited about Beacon because we believe a lot of information people want to share isn't on Facebook ... and if we found the right balance, Beacon would give people an easy and controlled way to share more of that information with their friends. But we missed the right balance.
1 week ago
I'm not proud of the way we've handled this situation and I know we can do better
1 week ago
We've made a lot of mistakes building this feature, but we've made even more with how we've handled them ... We simply did a bad job with this release, and I apologize for it.
1 week ago
We've made a lot of mistakes building this feature, but we've made even more with how we've handled them ... We simply did a bad job with this release, and I apologise for it.
1 week ago
It took us too long after people started contacting us to change the product so that users had to explicitly approve what they wanted to share
1 week ago
into the conversations between people
1 week ago

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Thursday, October 25, 2007

What does Microsoft's $240 million investment into Facebook mean?

The following posts provide a thorough review of the Microsoft/Facebook deal from many angles:

Brad Stone / New York Times:
Microsoft to Pay $240 Million for Stake in Facebook — Microsoft has won a high-profile technology industry battle with Google and Yahoo to invest in the social networking upstart Facebook. — The two companies said on Wednesday that Microsoft would invest $240 million for a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook.
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Ina Fried / CNET News.com:
Source: Microsoft wins Facebook bid battle — Update: 12:30 p.m. see bottom. — After weeks of speculation, Microsoft appears to have won a battle with Google over who would get a stake in Facebook, according to a source familiar with the situation. — Microsoft and Facebook were close to a deal, according to the source.
Wall Street Journal:
Facebook Is Close to Choosing Microsoft or Google for Deal — SAN FRANCISCO — Facebook Inc. is close to choosing between Google Inc. and Microsoft Corp. to sell ads for the social networking service outside the U.S., according to people familiar with the matter.
Erick Schonfeld / TechCrunch:
Facebook Takes the Microsoft Money And Runs. — While the storyline would have been more dramatic if Facebook had spurned its current ad-serving partner Microsoft for Google, it is confirmed that Microsoft has won the deal. It will invest $240 million in Facebook and expand its existing relationship …
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
Liveblogging The Facebook Press Conference — Facebook is holding a press conference at 2 pm PST to discuss and presumably confirm the Microsoft investment. We'll be liveblogging the event here. Stay tuned. — Press Release On The Investment: … - Sphere It -
Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Microsoft wins Facebook bid? Here's the insider scoop on why... Last night I was hanging around at the Ritz near my house. That's where Jerry Yang, CEO of Yahoo spoke yesterday, and where the Right Media conference is going on right now. — I talked with several people …
Terrence Russell / Epicenter:
Three Reasons Microsoft Underpaid For Facebook
Discussion: Googling Google
Mary Jo Foley / All about Microsoft:
Are you surprised? Microsoft beats Google with Facebook deal
Discussion: Rev2.org and CNET News.com
Andy Beal / Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim:
Facebook Sells 1.6% to Microsoft for $240 Million