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Silenced By Twitter, Thunderclap Returns With A Bang On Facebook
The Kickstarter-style messaging platform that Twitter shut down less than two weeks ago is back. This time it’s taking its flash mob approach to Facebook—and taking calls from the White House, Al Jazeera, Glenn Beck’s crew, and the United Nations.
They were doing just fine before, but Facebook’s biggest minority owners are about to be catapulted into a far more elite bracket. As we ponder what they’ll do with with new millions (or billions in some cases), here’s a look at what got them where they are today.
“Our aggregate, quantifiable numbers, as well as knowledge of our brands’s ad spend, show the speed at which brand advertisers are investing into Facebook. Companies that spent $1 million last year are spending $5 million this year. Companies that spent $10 million last year are upping spend to $25 million or more.”
“I like design with a purpose. I’m not there to design for myself.”
Kate Aronowitz, Facebook’s Design Director, On Crafting A Design-Led Organization
So what did the designers at Google actually do not just to make their product so much more beautiful, but so much more beautiful than Facebook? Co.Design talked to Google+ lead designer Fred Gilbert to unpack the subtle brilliance behind their awesome redesign—a redesign that was completed in less than two months—and his notes are full of lessons that could hone the experience of almost any product.
4 Key Insights From The 57-Day, Blitzkrieg Redesign Of Google+
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Linkin Park’s Mike Shinoda talks about his first experience scoring a film (The Raid), how his band became the biggest on Facebook (with 40 million “likes”), and what online innovations fans should expect from their next album. Read on->
Facebook’s design staff has gone from 20 to 90 people in the past year. We talked with its brightest stars about the sea change that this represents for Silicon Valley.
Take a tour of Facebook’s million-square-foot campus in Menlo Park.
An intimate portrait of the world’s most famous CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.
But the moment belonged first and foremost to Zuckerberg, who for years has had his own identity problem: “boy CEO.” Young, arrogant, and awkward—no one believed that Zuckerberg could survive the adult swim of real business, and thanks to his depiction in The Social Network, some folks will forever see him as the fatally flawed psychopathic robot nerd looking to steal your code, your personal data, your girlfriend. “I don’t think about it … much,” he once told me when I asked him how he handles all the noise, measuring his words as he always does. “I understand why people need to have these dialogues, to ask these questions. We have so much to do here, we don’t think about it if we don’t have to.”
Facebook’s brand timelines tell better stories, but who’s listening?
Is anyone visiting the timeline pages for brands?
Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google are transformational firms, but if you had to pick, which one would you say is the most innovative? Take the quiz to find your answer, plus our picks for all 50 Most Innovative Companies of 2012.
They were doing just fine before, but the biggest of minority owners of Facebook are about to be catapulted into a far more elite bracket. As we ponder what they’ll do with with new millions (nearly half a billion dollars for Reid Hoffman?), here’s a look at what got them where they are today.
