Category Archives: facebook

I’m unfriending everyone (except the following) on Facebook

Posted on Sunday, February 24, 2013 by Rex Hammock

As it’s apparently becoming cool to unfriend people on Facebook and then blog about how you’ve unfriended people on Facebook, I’ve decided to fall in line with this coolness. I felt it only appropriate to announce to anyone with whom … Continue reading →

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GM to Facebook: Your ads don’t work (but our content marketing does)

Posted on Tuesday, May 15, 2012 by Rex Hammock

The Wall Street Journal is reporting, in a three-person bylined story, that GM plans to stop advertising on Facebook after its senior marketing executives decided “that paid ads on the site have little impact on consumers’ car purchases.” However, while … Continue reading →

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Yes, the web and mobile apps are like TV shows (and magazines)

Posted on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 by Rex Hammock

Over the weekend, the smart and successful VC Fred Wilson used the metaphor of TV shows vs. TV networks to suggest that investors (and the rest of us) sometime (often?) confuse the significance of various kinds of web-based startups. Anyone … Continue reading →

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Facebook acqhires/acquires Instagram for $1 billion (No, really)

Posted on Monday, April 9, 2012 by Rex Hammock

Earlier today, I said on Twitter: $1 billion for Instagram is giving me serious flashbacks of the months preceding the dot.com meltdown. — (@R) April 9, 2012 This is what I was referring to: Mapquest - AOL acquired Mapquest for $1.1B … Continue reading →

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Google+ and the identity thing

Posted on Tuesday, July 12, 2011 by Rex Hammock

I’m on the bandwagon of Marco Arment and Dave Winer when it comes to the need for people to own and control their online identity. Facebook.com/rexhammock is not something I own; I merely use it — but RexHammock.com and RexBlog.com … Continue reading →

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