Great article from CBS about 6 things you should never share on Facebook 1. Birthdate (year) and place you were born 2. Vacation plans 3. Home address 4. Confessionals 5. Password clues 6. Risky behaviours Want to know why? Read the article  Proctor & Gamble is laying off 1,600 staff- a big reason for this [...]

My take on Google and its privacy policy changes…. basically they are consolidating user’s information from most of the Google products that the user has and creating one stream of data to deliver more targeted advertising to users… and more lucrative targeting for advertisers. What is Facebook going to strike back with? What are the US [...]

Weekly links roundup is back at lizoke.com after almost a 1-year sojourn. We are back – watch out for the weekly roundup and some random firings of multiple neurons in between. With all this talk about SOPA, good ol’ Rupert Murdoch censoring the internet, some hackers are trying to launch their own sattelite into space [...]

I recently converted my website into a custom WordPress template. Thanks to Tim Whitacre and Argyll Studios – they basically took my existing design (and functionality I wanted to keep) and converted it into WordPress. I have the blogging end here and I also have two pages that are static that I can change easily and at any time on my own. I can add more pages if i feel the need, and it is easy and seamless to do this.

Read more about my top plugins (aka Kryptonite) for WordPress….

A shark or giant octopus?

How about Google vs. Facebook?

There is a lot of talk today about Google being the Goliath and Facebook being David – with a loose comparison of Google becoming yesterday’s news (remember Microsoft!?). There is an excellent interview on Bloomberg today – Gene Munster, an analyst at Piper Jaffray was interviewed about how Facebook (600 million users) is rapidly gaining ground on internet market share from Google (1 billion users). Facebook is now seen as the leader of the internet kingdom, and many superstars are jumping ship from Google and Yahoo to work at Facebook.

In 2010, something interesting happened with Facebook, it surpassed Google as the most visited website in the U.S. People are on Facebook longer and more frequently than Google. This shows a few things:

People are using Facebook as an information source
Users are connecting more for advice and feedback from their “friends” rather than a search engine
Facebook is becoming the new catch-all for people – a one-stop place to connect socially, through business networking, marketplace, and as an information/opinion source
If you have a tight advertising budget, Facebook may be a better bet to engage a larger audience than Google