2012
Thoughts on Facebook Paid Search
As sponsored search results appear in Facebook s typeahead, businesses have to consider the implications and challenges the new system presents.
A Social Media Game-Changer? Facebook Quietly Launches Promo
Two weeks to the date after their initial public offering on Wall Street, Facebook countered their sliding share value with the announcement of a new ‘Promoted Posts’ option for status updates on business users’ pages.
2011
New Facebook Features Help Keep Your Dignity Intact
Facebook is making some big changes over the next few days, and approving and rejecting tags before they go public is one of them. That’s not just photo tags, either. The new feature includes location tags and tags in Facebook posts, as well.
2010
Facebook Chat Client Launches Today
As a self confessed laptop or computer nerd, what particularly impresses me about this Facebook client is both its reliability when related to Facebook chat along with the ease with which you ll be able to customize the shopper. As an example, the Facebook chat client’s intuitive interface makes customizing shortcuts a breeze; I like that I can hot
SortPrice Store Facebook Application Tops 1000 Retailers
Proving yet again a real commitment to opening new avenues of success for online merchants everywhere, comparison shopping engine SortPrice.com has now built virtual stores for more than 1,000 retailers through its Merchant Store application on Facebook.
ClickandBuy Launches P2P Payments Facebook App
A new P2P payment application for Facebook has been launched that allows you to send or receive money up to a value of 50 euros.
Study: Facebook Fan Pages are Great Marketing Tool
Companies that use Facebook and Facebook fan pages to market their company to potential clients can increase sales, word-of-mouth marketing and client loyalty significantly among a subset of their clients, according to new research from Rice Universitys Jones Graduate School of Business.
Judge Gives Green Light to Bashing Teachers on Facebook
A new ruling reinforces the notion that schools can t punish students for comments made in off-campus forums like Facebook.
2009
Study Shows Digg and Facebook Users More Loyal
There is a new study out that shows that people who visit Digg and Facebook are more loyal readers than on other web sites. Visitors to Bing.com and Twitter.com are not as loyal. Twitter, in fact, was shown to have visitors that are not as loyal as other web sites.
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