Posts Tagged ‘facebook technology groups’
The huge list of Facebook technology groups
March 19th, 2008
As a PR and social media consultancy, we always keep a close eye on our industry and today we have delved into the world of Facebook ‘technology’ groups.
We’ve listed the groups below, and the top five by members, but this is just the tip of the iceberg. If you can think of anymore that should be added, please drop us a comment:
Top 5 in terms of members:
34,549 members - Web 2.0 (Entrepreneurs)
136,810 members - If Wikipedia Says It, It Must Be True
59,079 members - If this group reaches 4,294,967,296 it might ..
29,014 members - The Global Network Experiment
9,788 members - FWA (Favourite Website Awards) Friends
The huge list in full:
Girls in Tech
Girls in Tech was founded by technology marketing and PRs Adriana Gascoigne and LaurieAnne Lassek. GIT was born to further support girls in an industry that, traditionally, has been primarily, well, mostly full of guys.
181 members
First Tuesday London
First Tuesday is a professional networking forum for technology companies seeking venture capital.
303 members
Web 2.0 (Entrepreneurs)
This group is for Individuals interested in being part of the next web business boom. Anyone can join, we especially encourage those technically gifted individuals: programmers, hackers, developers, designers, etc. who are interested in joining up with new startups.
34,549 members
If Wikipedia Says It, It Must Be True
Let’s face it, if Wikipedia says it’s so, then it’s irrefutable fact.
136,810 members
If this group reaches 4,294,967,296 it might ..
I’m assuming facebook uses unsigned 32-bit integers to represent the size of a group. If so, 2^32 = 4,294,967,296.
59,079 members
The Global Network Experiment
This is a group set up in order to collect quantitative data for my Dissertation. My Question is this: How has the expansion of online social networking affected peoples lifestyle and how they socialise?
29,014 members
FWA (Favourite Website Awards) Friends
FWA’s Facebook global gathering for everyone associated with FWA… winners, judges, site visitors etc.
9,788 members
The Web Designer Index
A group for all web designers and developers, graphic designers, web programmers, 3d animators, etc.
8,429 members
GNU / Linux users
If you use GNU/Linux at home, at work, or at all, join this group.
7,404 members
Apple iPhone
“Today, we’re introducing three revolutionary products of this class, The first one is a widescreen iPod with touch controls. The second is a revolutionary mobile phone. The third is a breakthrough Internet communications device. These are not three separate devices, This is one device. And we are calling it iPhone. Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone.”
Steve Jobs
5,104 members
Apple
For people interested in Apple computers, Apple products, Apple culture, and just Apple in general.
4,792 members
Library 2.0 Interest Group
A place to connect with librarians, MLS students, LIS faculty, patrons, and anyone else interested in Library 2.0 concepts and services.
4,718 members
Social Tools All things social
social media, social networks, social commerce, social search, etc.
3,874 members
I have a Blackberry, I’m out of your league.
For those of us who are madly in love with our Crackberries which are obviously superior to any other phone in the known world.
3,281 members
My Mobile Is Sony Ericsson
Do YoU PoSsEs A SoNy ErCISsOn MoBiLe ? IsN’t GrEaT AnD LUxErIoUs ? Do YoU LoVe YoUr MoBiLe ? Do YoU CrY If SoMeThInG WrOnG GoEs WiTh It ? HoW Do YoU FeEl WhEn YoU DrOp It DoWn ? I CaN’T ImAgInE LiViNg WiThOuT It.
2,843 members
Addicted to Ebay
Help me I’m ADDICTED TO EBAY!!!!! 24/7 I think about what can I buy on ebay today and half the time I don’t even bid on anything. Now I’m addicted to posting stuff to sell. grrr….I am so addicted to ebay.
2,521 members
Adobe Flash Group
Official Group for anyone utilizing the Adobe Flash technology in their websites, games, web applications, or projects.
2,134 members
C#.Net
C# .NET Programming
2,065 members
Firefox Users
For people who use Firefox.
1,903 members
Official iPhone Users Group
This group is for folks who own an Actual iPhone (or the Virtual iPhone that’s available for FREE on Facebook). The focus of the group is for those that love the iPhone but want to have a direct line to the Apple iPhone team.
1,855 members
Ubuntu users
This is a group for users of the greatest Linux Distro around.
2,363 members
Blogging - if you’re not addicted, you should..
You didn’t want it, but now you have it! Blogging is becoming the internet norm, so here’s a Facebook group for internet fanatics who love to blog, want to get into blogging more, are addicted to blogging despite their best intents, or even just regularly read blogs.
219 members
The Blogging Network
This group is for people who either… 1) Love blogging about anything they are passionate about 2) Make money from blogging 3) Love networking with other bloggers.
58 members
Geeks Who Care
Geeks Who Care is a new organization dedicated to bringing together geeks from around the world who want to do something positive in their local community.
84 members
Barcelona Web2.0 Community
Barcelona Web2.0 Group on Facebook is a group of the who’s who of the Barcelona web 2.0 community. The purpose of this group is to gather all people in our industry and provide alerts to upcoming events and local news. We have our first personal meetup at 6th March in Paseig de Born! Come and join us if you like for Web2.0 Tapas Crawl.
14 members
Universidad 2.0
Grupo sobre Universidad 2.0
200 members
Barcelona Geeks
A bunch of geeks living and working in Barcelona who likes to hang out together.
62 members
Apple Students
This is a group for Mac lovers with discussion boards about apple products. 433,038 | members
Lunch 2.0
A social phenomenon referring to a migration of web 2.0 company employees to other offices around the Silicon Valley area; characterized by open communication, decentralization of authority, freedom to share food and ideas.
2,008 members
Communipedia
Communipedia is a hub helping you regain control using open standards.
131 members
leweb3
LeWeb3 Paris conference alumni and people interested in joining the 2007 edition on Dec 11/12.
1,207 members
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