Facebook’s Fab Upgrade For Pages and Their Admins
If you are an administrator for a Facebook page, you have received or will be receiving shortly, an email from Facebook announcing new changes for pages, allowing increase interactions and monitoring of fans interacting with pages. As an administrator of a large number of pages, I think these features have been a long time coming, and I am excited that Facebook has finally rolled these out. You will receive an email from Facebook similar to the one below indicating the new features. Initially,...
Read MoreWhat Do 10 Million Facebook Friendships Look Like?
Recently, an intern working on Facebook’s data infrastructure engineering team took a sample of nearly 10 million pairs of friends from Facebook’s data warehouse and plotted out their relationships. The result? This intriguingly beautiful image and an accurate map of the world. Here are the thoughts that Paul shared about the image and its creation: After a few minutes of rendering, the new plot appeared, and I was a bit taken aback by what I saw. The blob had turned into a...
Read MoreIs Facebook Missing The Mark With Their Targeted Ads?
How good at targeting is Facebook? From ads regarding shoes to the latest TV shows and their episodes, Facebook is serving up a ton of online ads. After their latest phase in ad targeting in November, it will be interesting to see how they continue to adapt their targeting, focusing on demographics and interests. Many feel Facebook will save the declining click through rates that have been falling for years. Many marketers are hoping that with the surge of social networks, and increased...
Read MoreBeware … The End Is Near … For Google, At Least.
Pundits web wide are asking if Google is afraid of Facebook based on the latest comScore data regarding time spent on sites owned by each of the megalith internet companies. Well … hold on a minute … last time I checked, actual time spent on Google’s search site averages about 3 nano seconds to return about 150 gazillion results, while Facebook users languish in the throws of interpersonal communication for hours on end. Hardly a fair fight. Yes, I do realize they are talking about...
Read MoreSocial Networking by People 50+ Doubles in One Year Pew Research Reports
A new Internet & American Life Project by the Pew Research Center reveals that social networking use among Internet users ages 50 and older nearly doubled from 22 percent in April 2009 to 42 percent in May 2010, according to a new report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Social networking use among Internet users ages 50-64 grew by 88 percent over the past year, from 25 percent in April 2009 to 47 percent in May of 2010. During the same period, use among those 65 and...
Read More“Shocked” By Recent Facebook Virus and Spam Attack
Tweet Beware of a recent Facebook virus that we’ve seen circulating online beginning early today, Friday, June 25, 2010. It will arrive as a message in your inbox on Facebook and will include a link. Immediately delete this message and do not click on the link. If you receive this message, you should notify the individual so that they can change their password and make an update to their friends not to click on the link and that they have been hacked. Here is an example of the message...
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