Recently, Techcrunch posted an accusation that Facebook is purposefully lowballing their user numbers.
While it makes for a good conspiracy theory, the issue is semantics. Facebook reports its active users. Arrington is going by, at best, total users for the site.
If that isn’t enough, developer Wei Zhu cleared up the controversy as a memory error, not [...]

Lately, there’s been some reporting about the backlash to Facebook’s redesign. Like all such news, it’s difficult to accurately quantify how significant the backlash may be.
However, it does merit analysis. What exactly was lost in the stream? What’s harder to find?

New friend updates
Group updates

In addition, other updates fall off more quickly. Photo posts, wall posts, [...]

For a while, we’ve been skeptical about Facebook’s Pages product. However, we recently noted the redesign of pages, and that’s resulted in a new product: Public Profiles.
We’re finally willing to drink the Kool-Aid with this one.
For a while, the pages product lacked the interactivity, personality, and virality of normal Facebook profiles. With the launch of [...]

Earlier this week, Facebook announced live chat invites for applications. Essentially, it allows people to send invites through a more noticeable, viral channel.
Our thoughts? It’s easy to implement, which is always key (especially considering that any new channel Facebook opens is subject to being removed a few weeks later). Developers should work hard to get [...]