Facebook Takes on Search With New Ad Campaign (1)
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How does Facebook plan on attracting new advertisers? By attacking the number one channel of internet advertising on the web: search. Facebook has launched a new banner campaign that goes directly at the hear of search. There campaign model? Not search but instead banners. The banner campaign suggests that you should “reach your customers before they start searching.” One of the animated banner campaigns has been embedded below. The banner says “Your business is about ...
Facebook is One of the Fastest Growing Search Engines (5)
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This article has been republished from the Social Times. According to this July’s comscore data the fastest growing locations for search are Facebook and MySpace. MySpace had 539 million searches and Facebook had 173 million and posted 20 and 10 percent growth, respectively. My guess is that these searches are only domestic searches which would account for the large difference. Whatever the case is these numbers are far below Google’s search volume which fell just ...
Fastest Growing Search Engines? Facebook and MySpace (3)
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According to this July’s comscore data the fastest growing locations for search are Facebook and MySpace. MySpace had 539 million searches and Facebook had 173 million and posted 20 and 10 percent growth, respectively. My guess is that these searches are only domestic searches which would account for the large difference. Whatever the case is these numbers are far below Google’s search volume which fell just under 10 billion searches for the month with 4 ...
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bhc3 said:
"According to this July’s comscore data the fastest growing locations for search are Facebook and MySpace. MySpace had 539 million searches and Facebook had 173 million and posted 20 and 10 percent growth, respectively."
OpenSocial Foundation Launches, Facebook Stands Alone (3)
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Today the OpenSocial alliance announced the official launch of the OpenSocial foundation. The organization’s purpose it to keep OpenSocial as a separate entity which is independent of ownership by any individual group. The current participants are hi5, Google, Flixster, MySpace and Yahoo! Today’s announced came with the launch of the OpenSocial Foundation website which appears to be simply a source of information. Read the full story on the Social Times
The New Software Distributor: Platform Owners (1)
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Do you remember the days when you had to walk into a computer store to buy software? I remember Egghead software down the street from me where you would go to actually purchase games and other types of computer software. Soon enough those days will be long forgotten. This transformation has been taking place extremely fast and much of that transformation has taken place in the last couple years. Platforms Are for Distribution In my ...
Don’t Get Blocked for Being Too Social on Facebook! (3)
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Hey you! Don’t let me catch you adding too many friends or messaging too many users or you’ll wind up getting blocked! You may have seen it yourself, a warning dialog box which pops up and alerts you that your activity is of a rate similar to someone that is abusing the system (a spammer). Every day I receive emails from people that have been banned and they can’t get access to the site and ...
Who Knows What Social Networks Are? I do! (2)
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Today eMarketer, the source of the most accurate data in the world (just joking), released a report suggesting that 58 percent of people globally don’t know what social networking is. The Netherlands appeared to be the most acitve group polled as 36.4 percent of those polled are active on a social network. The findings show that 3.48 billion people still are unaware of what social networks are. Does this survey really provide any contextual relevance? ...
The Booming Branded Applications Industry (2)
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Last year when Facebook opened there platform there was a sudden influx of brands looking to gain access to a new channel for branded exposure. The demand was significant and just in the past couple weeks we have seen an increasing number of applications come out from companies like Context Optional and Buddy Media. How do these new applications differ from websites of the past and how what new opportunities do they provide? What are ...
Facebook Updates iFrames for Developers (2)
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Tonight Facebook announced that they made a few changes to application iframe canvas pages which “provide them with more of the functionality previously available only to FBML-based applications.” This means that applications will now be able to use XFBML, an extension of FBML which works on iFrame pages. These features also give application developers access to cached friend lists and preload FQL data. There are a few other changes as well: In addition to the ...
Will Virtual Gifts Become a Billion Dollar Business? (2)
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It’s no secret that virtual goods are a big business but how big exactly, nobody has really been totally clear. Yesterday Jeremy Liew of Lightspeed Venture Partners released an analysis done by the company which suggested that Facebook could generate up to $43 million this year alone from virtual goods. How does Facebook generate so much money from their virtual goods? Well as Eric Eldon points out Facebook generates a lot of demand for their ...
Facebook Connect Wordpress Plugin Leaked (33)
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A few sources have alerted me to a project that Facebook has been working on: integrating Facebook Connect directly with Wordpress. For all you developers that also thought that building a Facebook Connect plugin would be brilliant idea, you might want to stop development. While the timetable for releasing this plugin isn’t clear, there’s a good chance that it will be released in the coming weeks. Facebook Blog Comments Facebook Connect is still in beta ...
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DOCBook Howto said:
I'm not happy about this being an internal Facebook project - they essentially ruined about 20 hours of my time working on the exact same thing. Blog post coming soon.
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David said:
Fuck facebook.
Video of New Facebook for iPhone 2.0 (10)
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I’m not quite sure that Facebook is going to approve of this but I decided to post it anyways. Browsing through my news feed this weekend I stumbled across the following video which was created by Joe Hewitt at Facebook. I couldn’t resist embedding it below. The new Facebook iPhone application has a really slick way of tagging photos within the application. This version of the video only shows the photo tagging capabilities in the ...
Facebook Monetization Opportunity: Search (2)
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This afternoon I got to thinking about various opportunities for businesses to leverage Facebook and realized that Facebook is not taking advantage of one of their greatest opportunities: search. A few months ago, Microsoft announced that they were going to begin offering Microsoft Live search results for Facebook as well as search ads. So far nothing has been implemented. The most important search results on Facebook is people but many users are regularly search for ...
New Facebook Profile Available to All in September? (1)
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A blog post today to Facebook developers highlighted that they have yet to remove infinite sessions and also that all users are slated to have access to the new profile in “mid-September”, a little behind schedule for Facebook. The new Facebook profile roll-out has taken significantly longer for Facebook but it’s clear that they are trying to optimize the site and improve the user experience. So far Facebook has had a pretty smooth transition but ...
More Details on the Upcoming Facebook Movie (1)
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Source: 02138 Today more details were released about the Facebook movie which is in the works by Aaron Sorkin, creator of the West Wing. The movie is supposedly going to be based on a book created by Ben Mezrich who is also the author of Bringing Down the House. According to 02138, Mezrich also recently sold a book called Face Off, “a book on the origins of Facebook”, for $1.9 million to Doubleday. The book ...
The Increasing Market for Free (4)
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Yesterday afternoon I read an interesting article by Caroline McCarthy about how BuzzCity, the company behind the mobile social network MyGamma, has raised $10 million. According to McCarthy, “MyGamma is geared toward ‘unwired’ customers–those who have a mobile device but lack access to either a PC or a reliable broadband connection.” In other words it helps those that are unconnected get connected with other people that were also previously unconnected. It’s an interesting model and ...
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I can’t tell you what the long-term effects of a large market for free is but most of the implications appear to be negative. The only person supposedly “benefiting” from this free market is consumers and the few companies that can get acquired. Do you think that the market for free is sparking innovation or is it really stunting it? What do you think the best models of revenue generation in this environment will be?
Blogger Gets More Social, Get Excited! (3)
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Today Caroline McCarthy posted about a new feature which is being added to Blogger-based blogs and makes them inherently more social. It’s a simple widget-like feature which enables you to view other people in the network that are following that blog. It is extremely similar to the MyBlogLog community features and it extends Google Friend Connect. One interesting thing about this new feature is that you can import the “Blogs I’m Following” directly into your ...
Best Free Screen Recorder Ever! (6)
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Yesterday, after checking out the classic video intro that John McCain completed for his new social network, I decided to go searching for a free screen recorder. The reason? Just in case somebody decided to take down the video there would still be a copy. Honestly, I’m surprised that the video has not been taken down yet but after embarking on a search through Google I found an amazing screen recorder that you cannot live ...
Facebook Live Feed Kills Twitter & FriendFeed (15)
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Yes, I love calling Facebook the Twitter and FriendFeed killer but I seriously think they may have one-upped the competition on their latest release: the Live Feed. You can sit and watch in real-time what is taking place with your friends across their profiles in an unfiltered manner. This is similar to the functionality the Twitter Search (previously Summize) provided. Rather than the AP Newswire going across your screen, you now have a live activity ...
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Rahul Das said:
not really. Facebook updates are nowhere as interesting as friendfeed or twitter updates.
