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Bing Announces New Partnernship With Facebook
23rd October 2009
Just about 24 hours after announcing their search partnership deal with Twitter, Bing has gone ahead and finalised a similar deal with Facebook, according to reports from the Telegraph. More »
Can Social Media Overtake Search Engines?
13th October 2009
It has been noticed of late that more and more people are turning to social media instead of the usual portals or search engines when they want to find out something online. More »
Social Web Dominated By Women
7th October 2009
Women, today, seem to be taking the lead over men in a lot of technical. Only recently it was found that working moms are the real power users of mobile phones.
The latest statistics, collected by Brian Solis of Google Ad Planner, and published on Information is Beautiful, show that women also dominate the social web. More »
Nielsen Brings Market Intelligence To Facebook
28th September 2009
Facebook and Nielsen are teaming up to provide a new service to marketers on the popular social networking site. Nielsen will make use of their vast marketing experience to help marketers reach all Facebook users more effectively. More »
Facebook Ads Out Perform Google
23rd September 2009
While it is true that in general that the effect of online ads on social networks is not quite as strong as the effect of online ads on search sites, it has been found that ads on Facebook have definitely begun to show very good results, even surpassing the performance of ads on search giant, Google. More »
Facebook Copying Twitter @Mentions
14th September 2009
It looks as though, Facebook will do all that is required to slow down the growth of Twitter and to retain their own popularity. More »
Ad Impressions On Social Sites Grow
10th September 2009
comScore has revealed that display ads on social networks accounted for more than 20% of the total number of online ad impressions in the USA during the month of June 2009 . More »
Facebook Mobile To Reach 100 Million Users By 2010
8th September 2009
Facebook Mobile is growing very rapidly in popularity. Recently released numbers indicate that the service is now used by more than three times as many people as the number that used it eight months ago. More »
Can Facebook Justify Acquiring FriendFeed?
19th August 2009
Facebook has been trying hard to offer the latest and most popular new social features to their users. In an attempt to mimic Twitter’s functionality they bought the social media sharing site FriendFeed last week for a tidy sum of $47.5 million. More »
More Twitter Links Than Facebook In Email
5th August 2009
Analysts have begun to realize that there is a strong link between a brand’s presence on social media and the revenue it generates. Research is also showing that Twitter is overtaking Facebook as the medium of choice for building this brand presence. More »
Facebook Click Fraud
24th July 2009
Even though the global recession may be coming to an end, it seems rather unrealistic for a company to project revenues for 2009 at nearly double the value of 2008. Yet, that is exactly what Facebook is doing. They are targeting revenue of $550 million this year, while last years revenue was $280 million. More »
AccuraCast Facebook Fan Box
22nd July 2009
We now have a Fan Box from Facebook that we can promote on all websites that we control… More »
Facebook Dominates US And Worldwide
17th July 2009
Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, announced this week that the site has now overtaken MySpace to become the top social network in the USA. More »
Pay Through Facebook
9th June 2009
Among its many other moves to get ahead on the social network circuit, Facebook has now introduced a scheme by which its users can make payments for their online purchases through Facebook. More »
Iran Blocks Facebook Yet Again
3rd June 2009
Barely a few months after unblocking Facebook, in February 2009, Iran has decided to block it yet again. More »
Facebook Uses OpenId
22nd May 2009
Facebook has been in favor of openness for quite a while now, which is evident from their Facebook Connect facility. As a further step in that direction they have now joined the group of OpenId relying parties. More »
Facebook Brings Live Updates To News Feed
13th May 2009
Following the rule of demand and supply, Facebook has started supplying live updates on the recently re-launched home page news feed. More »
Microsoft Vine Debuts
29th April 2009
Microsoft has recently launched a new social web application called Vine that will first be beta tested in Seattle. Critics liken the service to a combination of Twitter and Facebook. More »
Parisians Take To The Streets To Protest Facebook Redesign
22nd April 2009
There is a saying that goes, ‘Change is the only constant’, which is quite true, but it is equally true that ‘all change is resisted’ at least initially. The second phrase seems to apply to the case of the social networking site Facebook in France. More »
Digg Bar Launched And Exploited
8th April 2009
Last month we had reported on a potential Digg toolbar that would compete with StumbleUpon.
Digg has now launched a new product called the ‘DiggBar’, which appears at the top of the browser whenever users click on any story on Digg. The DiggBar is portable to any website, making social news sharing much easier, but ways to exploit it are already cropping up. More »
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