Paul Jacobson

Tag: facebook

  • Perhaps WhatsApp won't be merged with Facebook Messenger

    Update (2014-02-20): Nathan makes a good point in the comments and I was also reminded of my post from about a year ago in which I considered the implications of just such an acquisition. I was just reading the Facebook press release about its $16bn WhatsApp acquisition and noticed this quote by WhatsApp’s co-founder and…

  • Google ad on a video interview with a Facebook exec #insecuremuch

    I’m watching a couple videos in my Watch Later queue while I get through some admin in my office and I noticed this Google ad pop up on a video interview with a Facebook executive at last year’s Le Web. I didn’t notice ads popping up on other Le Web videos so this one really…

  • Path is the better personal network you've been waiting for

    Path – Share Life from Path on Vimeo. Path doesn’t have Facebook’s users or nearly as much public awareness and yet it is, by far, a superior personal network. For many people, Path is the social network they were hoping Facebook would be and isn’t. I know a few friends and family who are apprehensive…

  • Why you would ditch Facebook and use Path

    I’ve found myself thinking about Path more in the last few weeks or so and when it would make sense to turn away from the mammoth in the room: Facebook? Rather than get caught up in the usual arguments against using Path, I thought I’d look at this mobile-first, personal network from a different perspective…

  • Twitter's growth challenge

    Om Malik writing in To live and die in public: That’s Twitter That is Twitter’s fork in the road. Does is want to be like Google, a company with faint regard for Wall Street’s expectations, delivering growth and sticking to its original (if somewhat more evil) game plan? Or does Twitter want to follow the…

  • While we are wondering why ordinary users should use Google+

    Forbes has an interesting article in which is raises the seemingly perennial question about Google+: why should “ordinary” users care about Google+? The point that no-one is using Google+ isn’t really a good one, however you measure Google+ users, there are a substantial number of people using the service. The challenge is more the composition…

  • Why we fear Facebook and why we shouldn't?

    Rian van der Merwe published a post which touches on a recurring theme which I have been thinking about for a while: we should fear Facebook/Google/Twitter because of all the data they hold about us. I keep wondering why? There are good reasons to be afraid of what these services may know about us in…