Facebook is a multi billion dollar juggernaught and companies have spent millions of dollars on building brand recognition on the social media platform. Rather than blogs and even over Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, and Instagram, authors use this service to sell themselves to readers. Like Amazon, Facebook operates under super secret ... more >
Facebook to buy WhatsApp for $19 billion – That collective groan you heard across the Internet yesterday heralded the announcement of this small purchase, which Mark Zuckerberg hopes will boost the messaging power of Facebook, by at least the 450 million users WhatsApp currently claims. Growing by about a million ... more >
Kohn Appeals Penguin, Macmillan E-book Settlements – Despite a warning from Judge Cote that his arguments were unlikely to prevail, RoyaltyShare founder Bob Kohn has formally appealed the approved e-book settlements with Penguin and Macmillan. As I noted earlier, Kohn’s argument is especially interesting, because he doesn’t assert that the ... more >
Netflix Instant has a diversity problem – With so many timely discussions about race and diversity in Romance, this is a noteworthy (but depressing) piece about the apparent lack of diversity in Netflix Instant. Although I am not a Netflix user myself, I couldn’t help but be concerned by the ... more >
23 Reasons Why Facebook Couples Are The Worst – Buzzfeed has made a list of why Facebook couples should cease to exist. The reasons run the gamut from thirteen year olds celebrating their proposals of marriage to a woman morose that her man is cheating on her by decided to ... more >
Beware the False Privacy Notice Posted All Over Facebook – A fake copyright notice spread around Facebook yesterday claiming that under the “Berner Convention” if you declared your copyright over uploaded photos and facebook statuses, you would be able to prevent Facebook from reusing them without your permission. There is ... more >