"...Mum’s no fool and she’d never shell out more money for less milk."
It’s generally accepted that a litre of milk gets more expensive every year, an unfortunate economic reality we call inflation. But can you imagine how angry mum would be if an additional $0.10 in price was inversely matched by a 50ml reduction in volume? This is all hypothetical of course because mum’s no fool and she’d never shell out more money for less milk.
But this is exactly what’s happening in the world television and press advertising. Less milk (audience) is starting to cost advertisers more money.
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Facebook began six years ago today as a product that my roommates and I built to help people around us connect easily, share information and understand one another better. We hoped Facebook would improve people’s lives in important ways. So it’s rewarding to see that as Facebook has grown, people around the world are using the service to share information about events big and small and to stay connected to everyone they care about.
- Mark Zuckerberg: "Six Years of Making Connections"
I could still feel the warm fuzzies from Zuckerberg’s note when I logged into Facebook and the top post in my newsfeed crapped all over my kumbaya – “I’ve had the new facebook layout for all of 45 minutes and already my fb chat reliability has gone down 90%. F*&$ you Facebook.”
Ah bless, the resistance has begun. But it’s really no surprise; it’s been a tumultuous relationship over the past 6 years…
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Wowza, Facebook just turned 6! That’s really old. It’s even older in the sense of social network years (whose ratio to calendar years must be something like 11:1). And, like any good cougar vying for young’uns, it celebrated the big day with a face lift to its homepage.
My account rolled over to the new homepage today; it’s all about navigation and accessibility this time around:
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Here at Thinq we like to plan for the person using the device, rather than for the device itself – devices such as the recently released (to unprecedented anticipation) Apple iPad. But here I get stuck…. Just who will use the iPad?
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