Earlier today Lee Lorenzen of Altura Ventures sent me a message referencing a note where he postulates about Facebook’s upcoming ad network. He brought up something that I previously hadn’t thought of: the opening of Facebook’s ad network. Imagine if Facebook, who now has access to over 50 million users’ personal information could […]
The New York Times is running an article about Stephen Colbert’s presidential explosion on Facebook called “The Colbert Nation Quickly Colonizes Facebook.”
Some background: Colbert jokingly announced his intention to run for president on his show, The Colbert Report, on October 16. Since then, more than a million people have joined the Facebook group “1,000,000 strong […]
Apparently Google’s new social platform is codenamed Maka-Maka. While it may sound ridiculous, according to one of the Techcrunch comments, “‘Maka’ in Hebrew means ‘a hit’ or ‘a punch.’ When you say a guy made a ‘maka’ in Israel, it means that he made a great deal and earned a lot of money, really […]
This morning I discussed the rare instance of Facebook banning user accounts. I thought it was a relatively infrequent occurrence but according to Glenda Kwek this is a much more common occurrence. For those that suffer the wrath of Facebook, it can be devastating. Having your Facebook account shut down is a […]
This morning, the Wall Street Journal points out a new issue facing Facebook thanks to their new investment by Microsoft: hiring. Any rise in Facebook’s valuation will create a subsequent rise in employee stock options. While that wasn’t a significant problem for Google or Microsoft who’s employees became overnight millionaires after their respective […]
Are you an avid user of Joost, the new web based t.v. on demand service? If so, there is a great new plugin for Joost that enables you to view all of your recently played shows. The application also displays your entire show history. While this application provides little to no interactivity […]
When Facebook turned on News Feeds for the first time in September 2006, many users were spooked by the privacy implications of a system that logs and broadcasts your activity to your friends. However, much of the concern quickly subsided - perhaps because it’s worked so well, the system that powers Facebook’s News Feed hasn’t […]
As I covered last week, Facebook is going to soon remove their limit on Facebook groups. Whether this will be all groups or only specific groups, I am not quite sure. One thing is for sure though, if groups start gaining significant traction both politicians and commercial organizations could benefit from lobbying group […]
The Web-Evangelist, Jeremiah Owyang was not so recently interviewed by Marketing Voices’ Jennifer Jones. Jeremiah firmly believes in the power of Facebook and in this great interview he talks about the working of Facebook, formation of communities and the need to understand the ripe Facebook opportunities, and to embrace and extend network through the site.
Jeremiah […]
Applied Language Solutions, a leading Translation Services Company has created a Facebook group to create interest in the Company. The group has been created by the Marketng and PR head at Applied Language Solutions, Richard Michie. The group is named as ‘Are you a translator or interpreter?. The idea behind the tool is to to […]
Are you a Facebook Addict? Do you spend countless hours searching for friends, sending messaging, poking your buddies and doing various other things which make you happy. FB Addict is a new application developed by Londoner, Adam that enables users to check their Facebook addiction.
The initially proposed criterion by Adam for this application is:
- Entering […]
Domain Name Registrar Leeching Traffic From Facebook Domain Typo’s
The purchase of domain name mis-spells of popular sites for type-in traffic by domainers is not an uncommon practice (in fact I often laugh at the owners of popular domain who fail to register the mis-spells of their own domains because it is so cheap to register […]
For about a week now I’ve been impatiently waiting for the developers of Zoo to get things fixed up so I could check it out. I have a big thing about zoos; I just love them. Even though part of my soul dies whenever I see an elephant in a pen or a jungle cat […]
Since Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling’s stunning announcement that Dumbledore was gay, there’s been a lot of muttering — delighted, horrified and confused — on this here world wide web, and Facebook is no exception.
Facebook has always been a haven for the Harry fans. You can install applications like The Sorting Hat that let you […]
Looking for something to read? Look no farther than Facebook’s Profile Comics application, which lets you pick comics to show up on your profile as new ones are published. Currently you can choose from a list of 71 choices, including classics like Penny Arcade. No Bob the Angry Flower yet, but the boards have been […]