Facebook recently held its site governance vote. It was promoted using notes through the stream, spots in the “highlights” section, special site notes, and traditional media.
It flopped.
Our take home point? It’s proof that not all ideas are viral- no matter how much social media muscle you throw at them.

This week, tech news has been mired in unending hooplah over Ashton Kutcher and Twitter.
While we won’t comment on the story’s newsworthiness of Ashton’s campaign (since we aren’t really sure what we think), we would like to underscore a point Mashable made about Facebook vs. Twitter.
This morning, Ashton finally reached 1,000,000 followers on Twitter.
His Facebook [...]

Since we immerse ourselves in tech-gossip and speculation, we can’t help but recoil a bit whenever we hear fetishistic fawning over Twitter.
However, we’ll posit a question based on Twitter, Facebook, and the stream.
Many tech pundits have proposed that Twitter’s real value may belong in real time search. As users, we’ve loved using Twitter search. We’ve [...]

As usual, a number of Facebook stories have been circulating this week. Rumors about ads APIs, layout changes, and, of course, CFO Gideon Yu’s departure have been making headlines. Our favorite story?
CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s spy like tactics for shutting down leaks.
It’s a funny story coming from the man who wants to make the world “a [...]