The New York Times reports:
In recent months, Facebook has been quietly holding talks with at least half a dozen media companies about hosting their content inside Facebook rather than making users tap a link to go to an external site.
John Gruber’s take on this one:
It’s like Lando’s deal with Vader in The Empire Strikes Back.
A month ago, Frédéric Filloux writing on “Monday Note”:
Last October, I published a column titled How Facebook and Google Now Dominate Media Distribution; it exposed our growing dependence on social media, and the need to look more closely at the virtues of direct access as a generator of quality traffic. (A visit coming from social generates less than one page view versus 4 to 6 page views for direct access.) Facebook has become a dominant channel for accessing the news.
Thursday, March 26, 2015
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