MORE 'FACEBOOK' POSTS
From The Next Web: Popular photo-sharing website Flickr announced on Thursday that it had surpassed the 6 billion photos, reaching the milestone in just under seven and a half years. According to The Next Web article, uploads to Flickr have increased about 20% year over year What about Facebook as a place to store and share […]
From WSJ: Facebook Inc. is exploring an expansion of the information users see on its homepage, said people familiar with the matter, as competition in the social media space ramps up. The social network is working on changes to a central product, the News Feed, which filters activity on Facebook and shows users information that […]
Push Pop Press developers of “interactive” books and the apps to read them (Pad, iPhone, and iPod) Touch was acquired today by Facebook. The company received a lot of positive press at the end of April when they released their first (and only) interactive book, “Our Choice” by Al Gore. From the Push Pop Web […]
An article on AllFacebook provides a useful list (with commentary) of seven Facebook search (or discovery related) tools. They search tools discussed are: 1. Openbook 2. Kurrently (Twitter Search Also Available) 3. Socialmention 4. Like Button 5. It’s Trending 6. Greplin 7. Booshaka Read the Complete AllFacebook article, “7 Habits Of Highly Effective Facebook Search […]
1. “Google+ email scam widening” (via The Telegraph) 2. “Google+ Invite Scams Appear on Facebook” (via PCMag.com) 3. “Facebook Unfriends Third-Party Friend Exporter” (via All Facebook) 4. “There Is No ‘Divorce’ In The Google Plus World” (via Forbes) Comparing the relationship options between Google+ and Facebook 5. “Will Facebook Hit Google With A Cease And […]
Yesterday, we pointed out that Mark Zuckerberg told Reuters that Facebook plans to launch something “awesome” next week. What could it be? The speculation has been going strong (as it always does). TechCrunch is now reporting that next week (Wednesday, July 6th) Facebook will introduce in browser video chat next week. Facebook will partner with […]
From Reuters: Chief Executive and founder Mark Zuckerberg told reporters in a visit to Facebook’s Seattle office on Wednesday that the company planned to “launch something awesome” next week. He said the project had been developed at the 40-person Seattle office, Facebook’s only major engineering center outside of its Palo Alto, California headquarters. There has […]
Will this service be the Facebook killer or at least a Facebook equalizer? Stay tuned. The new social networking service is named Google+ (Google Plus) and like always Danny Sullivan as an in-depth multimedia look on Search Engine Land. Cool! A lot of screen caps and video. Direct to SEL Overview Post: “Google’s Facebook Competitor, […]
Mike Cook Writes on Project Gutenberg News: In exploring new ways of connecting people to Project Gutenberg’s vast collection of free ebooks we’ve created our very own Facebook page. Here you’ll find all kinds of information and status updates. It should be noted that this is very much experimental – it may work, then again […]
Media Logic has posted an updated list that shows the number of Facebook “Likes” and Twitter “Followers” for a number of well-known retailers. You can find the list at the bottom of this Media Logic Blog post where you’ll also find some analysis. Facebook has been the story of the Media Logic Retail Marketing Report […]