Monday, March 26, 2012

who's copying who

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/14/is-facebook-copying-google-and-twitter-vp-of-engineering-mike-schroepfer-responds/

http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/14/facebook-launches-twitter-like-subscriptions-lets-you-share-with-unlimited-users/

twitter a threat to fb?

traffic charts
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/twitter_is_no_threat_at_all_to_facebook_traffic_an.php

3rd party tools not taken into hitwise report:
http://mashable.com/2009/08/20/twitter-web/

twitter envy
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_has_twitter_envy_but_why.php

http://bokardo.com/archives/is-twitter-successful/

google

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%2B

sites blocked by china

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/29/google-plus-china-blocked/

http://en.rian.ru/world/20110225/162755352.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_People%27s_Republic_of_China

fb features

The media often compares Facebook to MySpace, but one significant difference between the two Web sites is the level of customization.[59] Another difference is Facebook's requirement that users give their true identity, a demand that MySpace does not make.[60] MySpace allows users to decorate their profiles using HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), while Facebook allows only plain text.[61] Facebook has a number of features with which users may interact. They include the Wall, a space on every user's profile page that allows friends to post messages for the user to see;[62] Pokes, which allows users to send a virtual "poke" to each other (a notification then tells a user that they have been poked);[63] Photos, where users can upload albums and photos;[64] and Status, which allows users to inform their friends of their whereabouts and actions.[65] Depending on privacy settings, anyone who can see a user's profile can also view that user's Wall. In July 2007, Facebook began allowing users to post attachments to the Wall, whereas the Wall was previously limited to textual content only.[62]
On September 6, 2006, a News Feed was announced, which appears on every user's homepage and highlights information including profile changes, upcoming events, and birthdays of the user's friends.[66] This enabled spammers and other users to manipulate these features by creating illegitimate events or posting fake birthdays to attract attention to their profile or cause.[67] Initially, the News Feed caused dissatisfaction among Facebook users; some complained it was too cluttered and full of undesired information, others were concerned that it made it too easy for others to track individual activities (such as relationship status changes, events, and conversations with other users).[68]
In response, Zuckerberg issued an apology for the site's failure to include appropriate customizable privacy features. Since then, users have been able to control what types of information are shared automatically with friends. Users are now able to prevent user-set categories of friends from seeing updates about certain types of activities, including profile changes, Wall posts, and newly added friends.[69]
On February 23, 2010, Facebook was granted a patent[70] on certain aspects of its News Feed. The patent covers News Feeds in which links are provided so that one user can participate in the same activity of another user.[71] The patent may encourage Facebook to pursue action against Web sites that violate its patent, which may potentially include Web sites such as Twitter.[72]

facebook growth

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/TECH/social.media/06/13/facebook.dropping.america/index.html

(CNN) -- Facebook, the seemingly unstoppable juggernaut of the social-media world, continues to grow, steaming toward 700 million registered users. But has the site tapped out its potential in America?
The site lost more than 7 million active users in the United States and Canada last month, according to data from Inside Facebook, a blog that tracks the site and its development platform.
Mexico, where Facebook use started later than in the other two, added about 1 million users, according to Inside Facebook's data service. But Facebook's slowing growth in North America raises the question of whether the site has finally found all the users it can in places where it's been around for a while.
Last month was the first time the United States had lost active users in a year, Inside Facebook said, while ups and downs have been more volatile in Canada.

Facebook reached 687 million users at the beginning of June, according to the stats. But its growth rates appear to be slowing. Facebook gained 11.8 million active montly users in May, compared to 13.9 million in April. More than 20 million users were added during every month last year.
The United Kingdom, Norway and Russia, other countries where Facebook was adapted relatively early in its existence, each dropped by about 100,000 active users in May.

"So far, Facebook has been able to make up stalls and losses with big gains in heavily-populated developing countries like Mexico, Brazil, India and Indonesia."
Moving into China would be one way to insure its goal of reaching 1 billion active users, Eldon wrote. But agreeing to the terms that likely would come from the country's Communist regime might also hurt Facebook's popularity back home.

Friday, March 23, 2012

content media corp

http://markets.ft.com/research/Markets/Tearsheets/Business-profile?s=CMCP:LSE

Content Media Corporation plc, formerly ContentFilm plc, is engaged in the development, sales, financing, marketing and exploitation of entertainment-based intellectual property rights, with emphasis on feature films, television programming, digital rights exploitation and home entertainment distribution. The Company operates in three divisions: Fireworks International (TV), ContentFilm International (Film) and Allumination FilmWorks (DVD). Its television library rights include collection of television programs that are acquired for exploitation by the Company through free television, cable television and related digital distribution platforms. Film library rights include collection of individual films that are acquired for exploitation in theatres, on home entertainments devices, television and digital distribution platforms.


http://www.reuters.com/finance/stocks/CMCP.L/key-developments/article/2096563

Contentfilm plc announced that it has convened a General Meeting to be held on March 14, 2011 to propose resolutions to change the name of the Company from ContentFilm plc to Content Media Corporation plc. The change of name is proposed because the Company has evolved from a film production and distribution Company into a diversified media Company, encompassing media rights acquisition and distribution across the film, television and digital sectors.

exec prod

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_producer

digital licensing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_DJ_licensing

pay tv

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_television

HFPA Gloden Globe Awards

http://www.goldenglobes.org/history/

Known worldwide for its glittering Golden Globe Awards ceremony held every January and its multi-million dollar donations to charity, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association had humble origins that stemmed solely from a group of journalists' desire to efficiently and accurately cover all aspects of the world of entertainment.

BFCA Critics Choice Movie Awards

http://bfca.org/about.php

The Broadcast Film Critics Association is the largest film critics organization in the United States and Canada, representing approximately 250 television, radio and online critics. Our collective membership is the primary source of information for today's entertainment consumers. The very first opinion a moviegoer hears about new releases at the multiplex or the art house usually comes from one of our members.