Social TV can help Facebook avoid becoming the new Yahoo!
The stats on Facebook usage are jaw-dropping, with over 900m registered users, over 500m of whom visit daily. For many of those users, Facebook is the internet. It’s the place they go to connect, to communicate, to share and – increasingly – to spend time consuming content. Much of that content – photos and status updates – is user-generated, but in terms of time spent and revenue generated, the importance of professionally created content, notably social gaming, cannot be overlooked. And by virtue of its scale, Facebook is becoming an important global platform for more traditional media content such as music and video. Yet attempts to charge users for such content have so far failed to gain traction.
Why Sky’s iPlayer deal is bad news for Netflix
Today’s news – that the BBC’s iPlayer, its market-shaping catch-up service, will now be available on TV to subscribers of Sky – is not without irony, given the steady stream of anti-BBC spin we’ve heard from the pay-TV operator (and its newspaper siblings) over the years. Neutral observers of the two UK media giants are more used to seeing them slug it out, like Waldorf and Stadtler, only without the affection.
How Facebook is “rethinking” the TV industry
Mark Zuckerberg is developing some human traits, it seems. The aloofness of the Facebook founder and CEO, as depicted by Jesse Eisenberg in The Social Network, came across as arrogance. His lack of social graces was allied to an awkwardness in front of an audience. Now, having clearly studied Steve Jobs’ legendary keynotes, the 27-year-old is much happier selling his product. With 800m active Facebook users worldwide and a recent valuation of $80bn, that’s as you’d expect. Speaking recently at his company’s fourth F8 conference for developers, it became clear he’s growing up, and so is his site.
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