Posts tagged with 'Facebook'
Facebook's changes to the way it deals with privacy and sharing settings represent a major shift in the type of social networking Facebook is encouraging its users to engage in.
The company has long prided itself on giving users the ability to control who sees what you share on its network and even went so far as to create a privacy regime that many found overly complicated.
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by Patricio Robles
02 July 2009 10:42am
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Facebook is simplifying its privacy control settings in a bid to get users more comfortable with oversharing.
Last week, Facebook announced a public status feature that emulates Twitter. And today during a conference call, the social network announced that it is simplifying its privacy settings to give users more control over where and when their information goes out into the world.
The new shift is meant to encourage Facebook users to share more — an important step if Facebook's plans for complete Internet domination are to be successful.
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by Meghan Keane
01 July 2009 22:06pm
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Facebook may not have succeeded in its bid to purchase Twitter last year, but that isn't going to stop them from incorporating Twitter features into its interface.
Starting this week, Facebook users can share their answer to the question "What's on your mind?" with everyone on the internet.
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by Meghan Keane
25 June 2009 17:10pm
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Should CEOs tweet, poke and generally 'get social' online? It's a good question.
One that Fortune 100 CEOs are apparently answering 'no' to. That's according to ÜBERCEO, which looked at how Fortune 100 CEOs are using social media. The result: they're not.
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by Patricio Robles
25 June 2009 16:39pm
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Linkbait. It's sort of like foie gras and champagne. Even if it's not your favorite meal, chances are most consumers won't turn it down.
But as a website owner, is linkbait the meal you should be preparing every day?
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by Patricio Robles
24 June 2009 09:58am
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The internet may be becoming a less anonymous place, but does that mean Facebook will take it over?
Wired's Fred Vogelstein thinks that Facebook is poised to take over display advertising the way that Google has dominated search.
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by Meghan Keane
23 June 2009 18:40pm
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In 1995, Craig Newmark started an email distribution list for events in the San Francisco Bay Area. It moved to the web in 1996. Today, the non-profit company's classifieds community - craigslist, in case you hadn't guessed - is available in over 500 cities around the world.
We briefly caught up with Craig in advance of his appearance at next month's Traveling Geeks roundtables hosted by Econsultancy in London (other participants include Robert Scoble, Howard Rheingold and Susan Bratton). Here he answers a few questions on craigslist's history, Web 2.0 and dealing with customers.
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by Patricio Robles
23 June 2009 17:47pm
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Click fraud is a major issue when it comes to search marketing and big money is at stake.
The source of the most insidious click fraud: rogue third-party
publishers who participate in PPC ad networks run by companies like
Google and Yahoo and who use click fraud in an attempt to intentionally
inflate their earnings.
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by Patricio Robles
22 June 2009 09:45am
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Friendster provided the quintessential story of a hot company that rose quickly and fell even quicker. At one point, Friendster seemed set to dominate the social networking market.
Then two upstarts, MySpace and Facebook, left it battered and bruised. While the company still exists, the chances that it will ever recapture its past glory seem, to some observers, slim to none.
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by Patricio Robles
17 June 2009 11:35am
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So, you've decided to 'get social' with customers on the web, but how can
you build strong reasoning to support the decision? How can you get the
boss on your team and actively investing in social media at your side?
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by Jeff Molander
15 June 2009 14:21pm
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