We are throwing a great party next week! Invitations will be going out to those invited shortly.

A great Facebook event next Monday for anyone who will be in Hong Kong. There will be experts in from Facebook’s Palo Alto headquarters who rarely ever visit the region. Click on the invitation to request a seat! (or go to bit.ly/advancedfacebook)

Facebook may be blocked in China, but the world’s most populous nation features throughout Facebook’s IPO prospectus filed last night to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Here are the references (my comments in bold): Facebook sees China’s social networks as key competitors We face significant competition in almost every aspect of our business, including from

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Amazing as the iPhone growth was, the iPad is growing even faster. This chart compares the first quarters of sales growth. As someone who purchased an iPad, but uses it sporadically, I’d be interested to see how much usage is taking place. Stats and graph from Silicon Valley Insider.

I only met Steve Jobs once, and not for very long. In reporting an article about music copy protection for The New York Times, I attended a press conference in London at EMI. Steve Jobs, the CEO of EMI and members of band Blur attended. As the press conference wound down, I had an interesting

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This November the Global Editor’s Network will bring together a great lineup of news editors and speakers from around the world. (Disclosure: I am speaking at the conference, but I am not an organizer.) Among them are friends like Joi Ito, who now heads of the MIT Media Lab and who launched my blogging career

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An infographic produced by our social media team to show how Facebook now dominates Asia. Enjoy!

A great campaign for Huggies diapers by our team was recently featured as the first-ever case study done by Facebook of work by an agency in the Asia-Pacific region. Really pleased! This image, taken from the video, shows me asking the gods of creativity to bring on more great ideas from our team. Facebook also

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One of the biggest challenges facing our fast-growing social media team is finding the best talent out there. We have rarely resorted to recruiters, instead preferring to use social media. My colleague in Beijing, Jeremy Webb, created this flowchart to help in his search for talent. Posted on Sina Weibo, China’s largest Twitter-like platform, he

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Following the discussions on this blog, we recently held our latest Wall Street Journal social media training on Facebook Commerce. Below find a slideshare of the full deck, plus our latest version of the popular slide on F-Commerce providers. If you are a provider of F-Commerce platforms, feel free to leave your website below in

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