I can’t believe it. A 28-year-old french guy called Arash Derambarsh has been elected for President of Facebook by a non-official third party application. The story started when Derambarsh ran the application and started to invite his friends creating an official program for his campaign. When the elections were finished, Derambarsh received more than 9,000 votes and it converted him in the “first president of Facebook”. At the beginning, using this information Derambarsh got coverage with some French media. But the story raised up when it was covered by big TV channels and traditionnal media like TF1, Le Point, L’express, …
Derambarsh has become a star in France, being invited to talk about his presidency in some programs and gettings his own page in Wikipedia. We can check out his electoral program in FacebookPresident. He pledges to promote goodwill and tolerance among the three world monotheistic Faiths (Christian, Jewish and Muslim), to fight against illiteracy and analphabetism and to promote the French culture around the world.

Link | Techcrunch

Docstoc ha publicado un informe donde muestran los reportes de tráfico de los proyectos presentados en TechCrunch40 recogidos de Alexa y Compete. El evento fue celebrado el pasado mes de Septiembre en The Palace Hotel, en San Francisco. Podemos ver como la influencia del evento ha influido notablemente en el tráfico. Mint, el flamante ganador del premio de 50 mil dólares, llegó a superar las 200 mil visitas. Los proyectos que más incremento absoulto experimentaron fueron Wixi, Flock, Docstoc y el propio Mint. La cuestión es: ¿Es notable el incremento de presentaciones de proyectos en eventos hispanos?

Fuente | TechCrunch