Facebook Tania Galíndez Olascoaga 1 e-Business
Agenda Social Networking Facebook ▫History ▫Facts Facebook structure ▫Profiles ▫Applications ▫Third-Party Applications ▫Mobile 2 e-Business
What is Social Networking? Grouping of individuals into specific groups It can be done in person The websites are more popular Reasons: ▫Meet other users ▫Gather information ▫Relationships 3 e-Business -Social Networking -Facebook -History -Facts -Facebook structure -Profiles -Applications -Third-Party -Mobile
What is Social Networking? “Social Networking Websites” Online community of internet users Common interests Purpose Socialize 4 e-Business -Social Networking -Facebook -History -Facts -Facebook structure -Profiles -Applications -Third-Party -Mobile
What is Social Networking? Different types of social network websites: ▫Specific beliefs or groups ▫Open websites: Traditional Creation of the own network Risks 5 e-Business -Social Networking -Facebook -History -Facts -Facebook structure -Profiles -Applications -Third-Party -Mobile
History Mark Zuckerberg February 2004 Harvard Dustin Moskowitz and Chris Hughes 4 months 30 colleges Idea Exeter Face Book 6 e-Business -Social Networking -Facebook -History -Facts -Facebook structure -Profiles -Applications -Third-Party -Mobile
History Cofounder of Napster Sean Parker also joined. First investor Peter Thiel (Pay Pal) 2004,second investment by Accel Partners It opened to high school in Spetember 2005 Photo sharing feature 7 e-Business -Social Networking -Facebook -History -Facts -Facebook structure -Profiles -Applications -Third-Party -Mobile
History New investemnts September 2006 Opened to anyone with an e- mail adress Yahoo and Viacom attempted to buy Facebook In Fall 2007 1 million new users signed up every week 8 e-Business -Social Networking -Facebook -History -Facts -Facebook structure -Profiles -Applications -Third-Party -Mobile
Facts Facts: ▫11% users are over 35 ▫Fastest growing group is over 30 ▫Half of the users use the product every day ▫10 minutes a day ▫6 th most trafficked site in the US ▫Top photo sharing site Microsoft invested $240 Million for 1.6% of the company ▫Facebook $15 billion ▫5 th most valuable US Internet Company 9 e-Business -Social Networking -Facebook -History -Facts -Facebook structure -Profiles -Applications -Third-Party -Mobile
Facts Competitors: ▫My Space ▫Bebo ▫Friendster ▫Linkedln ▫Tagged ▫Hi5 10 e-Business -Social Networking -Facebook -History -Facts -Facebook structure -Profiles -Applications -Third-Party -Mobile
Facts 11 e-Business -Social Networking -Facebook -History -Facts -Facebook structure -Profiles -Applications -Third-Party -Mobile
How does Facebook work? Ways to find a person: ▫Browse networks ▫Web-based accounts ▫Search Engine Profiles ▫Instant message ▫ ▫Wall ▫Info Section 12 e-Business -Social Networking -Facebook -History -Facts -Facebook structure -Profiles -Applications -Third-Party -Mobile
Applications Applications: ▫Photos Applications ▫Video Application (YouTube) ▫Groups Application ▫Events Application ▫Posted Items Application ▫Gifts Application 13 e-Business -Social Networking -Facebook -History -Facts -Facebook structure -Profiles -Applications -Third-Party -Mobile
Third-Party Third-Party Facebook Applications ▫Developer Application ▫Web server to store the application ▫Web-based, desktop-based, movile-device-based 14 e-Business -Social Networking -Facebook -History -Facts -Facebook structure -Profiles -Applications -Third-Party -Mobile
Third-Party ▫Application Programming Interace is based on a Representational State Transfer interface: Applications interfacing with Facebook send method calls using HTTP GET or POST ▫Facebook Query Language Programming languages to retrieve information form databases ▫Facebook Markup Language Affects profile and appearance function ▫Canvas Page 15 e-Business -Social Networking -Facebook -History -Facts -Facebook structure -Profiles -Applications -Third-Party -Mobile
Mobile Applications Facebook mobile: ▫SMS or MMS Mobile Switching Center Signal Transfer Point Short Message Service Center XHTML Facebook ▫MMS must be compatible ▫XHTML 16 e-Business -Social Networking -Facebook -History -Facts -Facebook structure -Profiles -Applications -Third-Party -Mobile
Thank you for your attention!!! QUESTIONS? 17 e-Business