Posts Tagged ‘facebook’

Things have changed in the online world over the past two years. Normally Google has been the company that has made the waves and innovations, but when it comes to social media the company has really struggled to implement some solid strategies and match the success that they obtained in the search department.
So far Google [...]

In the growing battle for online supremacy between Facebook and Twitter, is Facebook the one running scared?
Facebook has just soft launched its own Twitter-like retweet function called Share, a way for users to share other people’s status updates with their friends.
The new functionality will sit alongside the Comment and Like buttons at the bottom of [...]

As Oxford English Dictionary unveils its words of the year, we find social networking giants paving the way for new words. Words such as ‘tweetups’ and ‘unfriend’ are now mainstays in the Oxford dictionary, highlighting the up and coming importance of the online social networking sites such as Twitter and Facebook.
So which words form the [...]

As seems to be the tradition at this time of year, I thought I’d take a look back at one of the sites which – despite attempts by Twitter to steal it’s crown – continues to be the biggest Social Network around. Namely Facebook. Below is a table showing the top 10 Facebook-using countries as [...]

One of the less-publicised new features that rolled-out to all Facebook users this week, along with the much-talked-about new privacy settings is the ability to target your status updates to certain groups of people. Simply clicking on the little padlock icon that now shows up beneath the status update box brings up a plethora of [...]

In an open letter issued last night on the official Facebook blog, founder Mark Zuckerberg spelled the end to networks on the world’s most popular social network for the sake of privacy.

Zuckerberg also announced that users will have more control over who sees each individual piece of content created and uploaded on to the site.

As [...]

If you listen to BBC Radio 1 at all, you will probably be aware that they’re running a campaign this week called “Bullyproof“, to tie in with national Anti-bullying week here in the UK. As well as some great advice for kids, one of the features on the site is actually very relevant to a [...]

There’s a very interesting report out this week from US “Agency Client Relationship Experts” (!) RSW/US, looking at a number of changes to the way marketing agencies are getting new business in the current climate. I won’t go in to the nuts and bolts of the report here (you can download the whole thing here [...]

Last year, I donated to Barack Obama’s presidential campaign.
That act landed me on the U.S. Democrats’ email mailing list.
Yesterday, I received an email with the subject line, Sarah Palin’s Facebook Lies.
I usually ignore most emails they send my way, but this, I thought, deserved a quick read through. I wanted to see how the [...]

As a Blackberry user, I was prompted this morning to download the latest version of the Blackberry/Facbook – version 1.7.0.18, for those that care. I duly did this, only to find that I had a new notification on my official notifications tab (see screenshot below)…

I don’t see a lot of these for some reason – [...]