The Facebook Effect

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内容简介:

《Facebook 效应》的作者近距离地采访了与Facebook相关的人士,其中包括Facebook的创始人、员工、投资人、意向投资人以及合作伙伴,加起来超过了130人。这是真切详实的访谈,更是超级精彩的故事。作者以其细腻的笔触,精巧的叙事结构,解密了Facebook如何从哈佛的宿舍里萌发,创始人的内讧,权力之争,如何放弃华盛顿邮报的投资,怎样争取到第一个广告客户,而第一轮融资又如何获得一亿美元的估值,让人痴迷的图片产品如何上线,面对Twitter的竞争,与Google的世纪之争……一个创办仅7年,就拥有5亿活跃用户,年收入超过5亿美元,估值超过200亿美元的传奇企业再加上一个年仅26岁的的“娃娃CEO”,在你面前“裸奔”。激情澎湃的创业精神,智慧传奇的融资经历,一个聚合世界的社交帝国向你彻底开放,你还等什么?

IN LITTLE MORE THAN HALF A DECADE, Facebook has gone from a dorm-room novelty to a company with 500 million users. It is one of the fastest growing companies in history, an essential part of the social life not only of teenagers but hundreds of millions of adults worldwide. As Facebook spreads around the globe, it creates surprising effects—even becoming instrumental in political protests from Colombia to Iran. Veteran technology reporter David Kirkpatrick had the full cooperation of Facebook’s key executives in researching this fascinating history of the company and its impact on our lives. Kirkpatrick tells us how Facebook was created, why it has flourished, and where it is going next. He chronicles its successes and missteps, and gives readers the most complete assessment anywhere of founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the central figure in the company’s remarkable ascent. This is the Facebook story that can be found nowhere else. How did a nineteen-year-old Harvard student create a company that has transformed the Internet and how did he grow it to its current enormous size? Kirkpatrick shows how Zuckerberg steadfastly refused to compromise his vision, insistently focusing on growth over profits and preaching that Facebook must dominate (his word) communication on the Internet. In the process, he and a small group of key executives have created a company that has changed social life in the United States and elsewhere, a company that has become a ubiquitous presence in marketing, altering politics, business, and even our sense of our own identity. This is the Facebook Effect.

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作者简介:

David Kirkpatrick was for many years the senior editor for internet and technology at Fortune magazine. While at Fortune, he wrote cover stories about Apple, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Sun, and numerous other technology subjects. Beginning in 2001, he created Fortune’s Brainstorm conference series. More recently, he organized the Techonomy conference on the centrality of technology innovation for all human activity. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and appears frequently on television, radio, and the Internet as an expert on technology.

原文摘录:

动态新闻不仅是facebook的一次改版,而且还预示着人们交流方式的重大转变。它彻底颠覆了”正常”的交流方式。直到这之前,如果你希望把信息传达给某人,你必须要采取自觉主动的方式启动一个沟通进程,或者把内容”发送”给他们。当你在打电话,寄信、发电报或电子邮件时,你就是在主动和人沟通,即使通过即时通信进行交流也是如此。
但是动态新闻倒转了信息传递的过程。不是向某人发送一条关于你的快讯,现在你只需在facebook上暗示一点和你自己相干的事情, facebook就会根据你朋友们的偏好程度计算出也许对你的主题感兴趣的朋友,然后向他们发送这些信息。而作为信息的接受一方,只要查看他们的facebook主页就行了。这种自动沟通的新形式使得付出最小的努力与最多的伙伴同时保持联系成为可能,它让整个世界变小了。
本质上来讲,facebook创造的就是一种”订阅”朋友信息的方式。不是等待你的朋友向你发送信息,而是你告诉facebook(很简单,通过成为某人的朋友)说你希望听到他们的相关信息。成为他们的朋友就是订阅他们的数据,于是facebook的后台会把他们的信息拖到你的首页上。这种订阅模式的一个重要先例就是大名鼎鼎的动态系统–rss(简易信息聚合)。 (查看原文)

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2012-07-01 22:11:38

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不过除了喧哗声,扎克伯格和facebook上的所有人都在这一幕里察觉到了一种莫大的讽刺,那就是抗议小组迅速膨胀的规模其本身就证明了动态新闻的有效性。人们之所以会纷纷加入各个小组抗议动态新闻,是由于他们从动态新闻中得知了这些小组的存在。就像当时扎克伯格对我解释的:”动态新闻的重点在于它能够浮现出你周遭发生的态势。它浮现的态势之一就是这些反动态新闻小组的存在。我们要让这些小组在我们的系统里能够真正地成长起来。”对他来说,这是动态新闻在按其预想的目的运作的终极证据。 (查看原文)

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2012-07-01 22:11:40

—— 引自第556页