Facebook Polls Reviewed
Friday, November 16th, 2007Facebook has launched a new product this week called Facebook Polls - its part of Facebook’s new business toolkit.
This is an advertising product that is designed to generate revenue. Users are able to create a question and up to five answer possible answers, and then target the poll based on gender, age, location […]
Facebook Launches Toolkit for Businesses
Wednesday, November 14th, 2007This week has seen the launch of Facebook’s latest range of tools for businesses. Now businesses of any shape and size can take advantage of Facebook’s ever-increasing popularity and exposure by using social marketing to target their audience in new and exciting ways. So what’s in Facebook’s latest toolkit and how can you use it […]
OpenSocial - Facebook, are you scared?
Friday, November 2nd, 2007Earlier this year, Facebook launched their platform which allowed developers to create applications within Facebook.
Developers created additional features, productivity tools, games, and drew in content from external sources. This added value to the Facebook offering, and proud developers and companies helped further publicise Facebook by creating press releases and adding links from their website.
This […]
Public Search Listings on Facebook
Wednesday, September 5th, 2007From today, Facebook are making limited public search listings available to people who are not logged in or resgistered to Facebook. They’ve continued to expand search so that people can see which of their friends are on Facebook more easily.
Here’s an example listing that facebook are planning to show in their search results.
In a few […]
Power to the people! How social networking sites can influence change.
Friday, August 31st, 2007I’ve always believed that people like the relatively anonymous nature of contacting companies via email and website contact forms. I know when I’m faced with the options of calling, emailing or using an online form I choose to email or use the form. So, perhaps that’s why 2 stories that illustrate how internet users are […]
What Are Social Media Aggregators and Branded RSS Feeds?
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007RSS
Due to the widespread use of RSS* it’s become easier to pull in information, content, images, audio, news and comments from various locations and output in an easily digestible, or even branded display.
* RSS is an abbreviation for many terms which attempt to describe the phenomenon, but most commonly ‘Really Simple Syndication‘. Wikipedia and […]
What is Social Network Service Marketing?
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007Someone once said that you tend to do business with people that you know, like and trust. In this increasingly digital environment in which we transact, I suppose it is almost blindingly obvious that social networks would need to evolve, not only to manage online relationships as they evolve, but also to enable relationships of […]
Do Social Networks Invade Your Privacy?
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007With a growing number of professional, educational and recreational ‘networks’ on Facebook are individual users losing the freedom to behave in a way that they deem fit?
In the past few months we’ve read about Oxford University students being fined for their post exam celebrations and how employers are using facebook to do background checks on […]
Facebook causes blue screen of death!!
Monday, August 13th, 2007While attempting to upload some of my photos from the weekend onto Facebook, the online social networking site, my PC blue screened on several occasions.
Thinking that it was an issue related to my PC I attempted to have a go uploading some photos from another machine and again I received a ‘blue screen of death’ […]
Womb with a view on Facebook
Monday, August 13th, 2007A baby has become a star of the Internet even before it has been born.
‘Bubba’ Waring is three months away from entering the real world but already has its own Facebook page.
The foetus’s page on the social networking site features ultrasound scans and the proud parents are regularly updating his actions.
One family friend has […]