Talking Salmons

On Thursday, PrivCo CEO Sam Hamadeh told VentureBeat that several people close to the company were saying Facebook was going to miss first-quarter revenue projections. Meanwhile, eMarketer released a report predicting Facebook’s advertising revenue growth will slow in 2013 and 2014. That follows reports earlier this week about retailers shutting down Facebook stores.

Oh yeah, and don’t forget about that class action lawsuit filed this week that once again brings Facebook’s ongoing privacy woes into focus.

// At this point, reporting that newly public social media firms are overvalued shouldn’t be news.

Charlie White, mashable.com

Even in the rich­est coun­tries on the plan­et such as the U.S., not every­one has easy access to this cor­nu­copia of con­nec­tiv­i­ty, the Inter­net.

The Inter­net is a tremen­dous growth engine, respon­si­ble for 21% of eco­nom­ic growth in t…

// A lack of competition compared to the developed world? In the US? No! We have the FCC whose sole purpose is to keep that from happening. What else would they be doing?

Amalia Agathou, thenextweb.com

Advis­ing brands to get active on social media is, in the words of Black Eyed Peas, “so 2000 and late.” Every brand small­er or big­ger has at least a Face­book page, if not also at least one Twit­ter han­dle, a Tum­blr, a Google+, an Insta­gram a…

// Already doing it :)

Paul Sawers, thenextweb.com

The Pirate Bay‘s founders may be fac­ing jail after being refused a Supreme Court appeal, but the peo­ple behind the site are clear­ly deter­mined to keep the site active and out of reach of US author­i­ties.

As Tor­rent­F­reak reports today, th…

// Yaaaar!