Have you ever wanted to take a Facebook Fast? And just delete your account? Well, I just finished a 30 day Facebook Fast from my Facebook Wall. I went into my privacy settings and shut down the wall. I always have to quantify the value of something to my life. And it seems to me [...]
Facebook is about to evolve it’s look with some of the coolest software designs on the planet, as they’ve acquired Sofa, a Dutch design firm. When we started Sofa in 2006, we set out to make friendly, useful and enjoyable products that matter to people. Over the years, we built an awesome team of designers [...]
Today, Facebook launched a feature that will certainly help all social media managers managing large brands, the ability to tag the pages of great and companies in your photos. Now the Facebook, the brand/page photos, partly based off of their users privacy settings and will only appear on a brands tab, if that visibility is [...]
Late Friday night, Facebook announced a new round of privacy settings for third-party applications via the company’s developers blog. They no doubt hoped to minimize the repercussions from its latest privacy change by announcing it late on Friday evening, but there could be a larger repercussions from its new privacy move than Facebook initially anticipated. Essentially, Facebook [...]
Just hanging out on Twitter today when I saw this tweet from @adamostrow, Editor-in-Chief at Mashable, about the negative comments on facebook about their Justin Bieber contest. . . yep. You read right. Mashable is hosting a Justin Bieber contest on it’s Facebook Page, and from the comments – Mashable loyalists are none to pleased. [...]
Map 2.0. Paul Butler, an intern at Facebook, began pairing users locations and their friend connections and before he knew it, he had created a social cartograph of the world. When the data is the social graph of 500 million people, there are a lot of lenses through which you can view it. One that [...]
David Armano has written an interesting piece on social media trends of 2011 for the Haarrrrvard Business Journal which is worth taking a look at. He talks about how the mobile and tablet wars will be heating up. He discusses how Facebook is going to take the location-based world by storm. Armano also talks about [...]
“ Quit counting fans, followers and blog subscribers like bottle caps. Think, instead, about what you’re hoping to achieve with and through the community that actually cares about what you’re doing.” – Amber Naslund, Social Media Today I came across this quote today and it really struck home . . . it’s about the QUALITY [...]
Social networking sites and the media have found synthesis these past few months, as movies and their twitter and Facebook fan pages have been areas where fans can get sneak previews of scenes, exclusive interviews and interact with their favorite actors. Now, the upcoming motion picture “Scott Pilgrim VS The World” has a cool offer [...]
@tkpleslie just announced via a RT of @PaulDunay that Facebook reversed it’s decision because of the HUGE outcry from Page owners and Page management companies. Wow. . . Read the latest on this story on insidefacebook.com Thanks to @tkpleslie of The Kaleidosope Partnership for this tweet. It led me to the article on allfacebook.com where [...]
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Google may have collected emails and other private information while using their “Street View” cars. If they traveled over WiFi networks while one of the cars was in range, they may have started to collect your data. Previously, the company denied that any data was ever intercepted. In a blog post published on Friday afternoon, Google [...]
Back in the day, AOL was notorious for being anti-user and making escape from their walled garden near impossible. Now, there is a new horrible walled garden. And escape is not much easier.
While checking in with my company fanpage I noticed the nice, neat little message that today Facebook is rolling out the “like” button for Fan Pages . . . I’m not sure how much I really “like” this idea Facebook. When you become a fan of a site doesn’t it make more sense for me [...]
South Park does Tron, Facebook, and Farmville. Hilarity ensues.
Remember “The Sims” – the game where you got to watch someone live out his/her life. With social media, we can all be Sims.
I used to think that social networking sites (SNS) were only for the “socially active.” But nowadays, they’re everywhere. You used to only be able to get SNS on your laptop or PC, but now SNS has spread to Androids, iPhones, iPads and the like. With this degree of spread, it seems as if anyone [...]
This month was very large for Facebook. Extra awesome saucemly, large. It gets more traffic than Google. BigCommerce released their bad-ass social shopping application, Social Shop, via Facebook. And Facebook wants to release a like button and be an aggregate of as much content as it can. So much to talk about! Facebook Overtakes Google [...]
Oh no! This poor hair metal band’s mom got on facebook and ruined their lives. Mom’s stay off the ‘Book! Music and lyrics by Blood of TigerCat. Visit http://backoftheclass.net for more. Follow them: http://twitter.com/backoftheclass (for the comedy) and http://twitter.com/bloodoftigercat (for the rock). LYRICS: You used to be a special place for all my college [...]
Facebook, the ever wanna-be, “me-too” company, has decided that they too would like to be like Foursquare… decides to add location updating.
As if I don’t already need 26 hours instead of 24 hours in one day. I have found yet another way to take my procrastination to the next level. Please don’t blame me if you get hooked. Dogbook allows your pet to have his or her very own Facebook page. Ok, I know you’re thinking [...]
Thanks to a retweet – I discovered possibly the best Dear Facebook post that ever needed to be written in a 140 characters plus. Seriously. @RedheadWriting spells out every frustration toward Facebook in big bold letters (insert witty font conference reference here). From telling it like it is about their customer service (or lack thereof) [...]
February marks six years of poking, picture posting, stalking and miscellaneous relationship awkwardness on TheFacebook.com (as it was known then). Happy Birthday! Now I don’t know if you know this, but Facebook only used to be for kids in college. And the earliest adopters were either ivy leaguers or students at large big 12-ish universities.
The other day I was chatting online with an old friend. We had recently re-connected on Facebook after not seeing each other in about six years. We were both curious about a co-worker, who had been a mutual friend, so I did a quick Google search on his name and I found his Myspace profile [...]
A friend of mine suggested that I check out Chatroulette, a site that connects you via web cam to an endless amount of complete strangers from around the world. Yes, she’s a good friend. It was started just three months ago by this 17 year old Russian kid, Andrey Ternovski. First of all, when I [...]
Last week, Compete.com announced that their data showed Facebook had beaten Yahoo! in number of unique visitors in January 2010. Why is this such a big deal? What I want to know is: Why hasn’t Facebook had more visitors than Yahoo! already? And the numbers are really close too! This is Compete’s graph: Now how [...]
Actress Andrea Fay Friedman who has portrayed numerous characters with Down Syndrome (and herself has Down Syndrome) weighs in on Sarah Palin’s alleged outrage over the word “retard”.
Facebook users reached a new low today, sympathizing and glorifying the actions of a disturbed man. If you are a fan of Joe Stack or what he did, you are a fan of terrorism. There is no way around it.
BusinessWeek examines how Facebook is transforming the mobile phone, and poses the question, “what if Facebook made their own smartphone?”
Aol has announced that it will team up with Facebook to link Facebook Chat with Aol’s chat client, AIM. This is largely in response to yesterday’s announcement by Google of it’s new social networking service, Google Buzz, which looks to expand into territory held by Facebook and Twitter. While Aol gains little from it, Facebook [...]
Back in the old days of stalking and burglary, criminals had to stake out people and locations to find out optimal times to be criminalish. Social Media has made it easy.
Does the 800 lb. gorilla of search have what it takes to win against the Twin Titans of Social Networking? Buzz vs. Twitter and Facebook.
JD Salinger, the legendary novelist, reluctant voice of a generation, and notorious recluse, died yesterday. As is the norm nowadays, Salinger became a Trending Topic on Twitter. There are currently 243 Facebook groups and 25 pages devoted to him. The NYTimes comment section connected to the article on his death has over 200 comments. Personally, [...]
In the social web, you don’t control your own message, your customers do. Those of us in the social network world know this, however more traditional brands can be a bit slow to adopt this ideology. However, 360i has put together some amazing data that might convince them that this is indeed the case. In [...]
