Visualizing Facebook Friendships – Indian Perspective

Facebook recently released their intern Paul Butler’s work – “Facebook Connection Map”. It’s an interesting way of looking at how people are connected on Facebook. I took a closer look at how these connections are for India on Facebook and found some interesting things to point out. Here they are: India – Pakistan: Offline animosity of [...]

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Smart Product Management of Facebook for India

Facebook seems to have upped the ante in India and is aggressively pushing itself in India. For last couple of weeks, the very prominent “Find your Orkut friends on Facebook” campaign has been running on Facebook. And yesterday I saw a Facebook promoting its ‘user-tagging’ feature in the status updates for wishing friends and family [...]

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No Applications, Quizzes on Facebook Lite and Facebook Mobile

My last post about Facebook Lite was more about how close it takes Facebook to Twitter.This post talks about the another most striking feature of Facebook Lite – the absence of applications and quizzes. While it certainly makes the page look less cluttered and clean, and significantly reduces the page-weight (hence making it ‘Lite’), this [...]

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