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WHY FACEBOOK AND TWITTER ARE NOT MOST INNOVATIVE COMPANIES The simplest reason Facebook and Twitter are not on this year’s Most Innovative Companies list: Neither produced innovations worth celebrating. “Both companies have turned their focus away from users and toward shareholders to get bigger, not better. Revenue is great, but not at the expense of the product.” [Image: Adam Simpson]

WHY FACEBOOK AND TWITTER ARE NOT MOST INNOVATIVE COMPANIES

The simplest reason Facebook and Twitter are not on this year’s Most Innovative Companies list: Neither produced innovations worth celebrating.

“Both companies have turned their focus away from users and toward shareholders to get bigger, not better. Revenue is great, but not at the expense of the product.”

[Image: Adam Simpson]

Behold The Power Of Facebook! Oops! A Facebook Connect glitch-slash-bug banjaxed some of the world wide web’s major players yesterday, redirecting their sites to a Facebook error page. Websites that suffered a wipeout included CNN, NBC News and AOL’s Huffington Post. The Verge reported that its sister sites Polygon andSBNation had also taken one for the team. The problem seemed to be for people logging in to other sites via Facebook. Never underestimate the power of Facebook, o beloved firms who allow your users to connect via the Facebook platform. The firm filed a document(.pdf file) for the SEC last week which stated that 50 million pages and 10 million apps are hooked up to the social network.

Behold The Power Of Facebook!

Oops! A Facebook Connect glitch-slash-bug banjaxed some of the world wide web’s major players yesterday, redirecting their sites to a Facebook error page. Websites that suffered a wipeout included CNN, NBC News and AOL’s Huffington Post. The Verge reported that its sister sites Polygon andSBNation had also taken one for the team. The problem seemed to be for people logging in to other sites via Facebook.

Never underestimate the power of Facebook, o beloved firms who allow your users to connect via the Facebook platform. The firm filed a document(.pdf file) for the SEC last week which stated that 50 million pages and 10 million apps are hooked up to the social network.

Facebook’s Graph Search Team tells Fast Company the backstory behind its new data viz search tool in How Facebook Survived 34 Intense Days of “Lockdown” To Build Graph Search. What else Fast Company has had to say about the Facebook Graph Search: Why Facebook’s New Graph Search Is No Google Facebook’s Open Graph: Boons for Business, Perils For Privacy The Raunchy, Rude, Racist, Often NSFW Side of Facebook Graph Search Results Short Story Shorter: The Most Creative Uses Of The Vine So Far [Image: Facebook via Shuttershock]

Facebook’s Graph Search Team tells Fast Company the backstory behind its new data viz search tool in How Facebook Survived 34 Intense Days of “Lockdown” To Build Graph Search.

What else Fast Company has had to say about the Facebook Graph Search:

[Image: Facebook via Shuttershock]

fastcodesign: One mathematician’s ingenious solution to armoring heavy bombers inspired Facebook’s research manager to look at Facebook’s ocean of data from a new perspective.

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One mathematician’s ingenious solution to armoring heavy bombers inspired Facebook’s research manager to look at Facebook’s ocean of data from a new perspective.