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April 18, 2008
Facebook's new Lexicon feature (free Facebook membership required) graphs the popularity of terms used by Facebook members over time. For example, a search for the term "hangover" shows an unsurprising spike on January 1st: Looks like there is a recurring...
April 11, 2008
Facebook, for those who haven't signed up yet, may seem like a childish networking site where people waste time doing stupid stuff. If that's what you believe, this video should help reinforce your notions:...
March 31, 2008
One of the things that separates Facebook from the zillions of other social networking sites on the web today is the honesty. Not that everyone is completely honest in their personal profiles, but at least they use their real names...
March 20, 2008
Have you ever noticed that everyone looks good on Facebook? Is it just me, or do people on Facebook look better than the people on a typical dating site? My theory is that people look better on Facebook because they're...
March 2, 2008
Scrabulous, as the New York Times reported this weekend, is spreading like wildfire within Facebook. People who were logging into their Facebook accounts once a week are suddenly keeping a tab open all day so they can check to see...
February 7, 2008
Can anyone tell me what happened here: I'm 33 years old and I've included that information in my FaceBook profile. So, why am I see seeing this ad? Is this a case of an advertiser setting up their campaign incorrectly?...
December 27, 2007
I recently got back from a trip to Argentina and Uruguay which allowed me to update my WhereIveBeen map in Facebook. And drink some wine, eat some beef, and get some sun. While I was gone, I see that Facebook...
November 12, 2007
Marty Weintraub from aimClear Search Marketing Blog has become fed up with the mundane noticed some of his casual friends are pumping into Facebook, and he's not going to take it anymore. The challenge is, he still want to be...
November 7, 2007
Why does Facebook convert profile email addresses to images from text? I noticed this while visiting a friend's profile where I realized he, sadly, changed his email address when he changed ISPs (dude, seriously, stop using email addresses tied to...
October 25, 2007
I have been testing out the FriendCSV application mentioned on TechCrunch yesterday. FriendCSV allows you to download a .csv file with some - but not all - of your Facebook friend's contact information. One thing I found interesting was the...
September 17, 2007
Should social networking sites make it easy to import updates from other social networking sites? Yes and no. On the Yes side, it makes it easy to consolidate one's social network updates from your blog, Facebook, Twitter, Pownce, etc. On...
September 16, 2007
Read/Write Web has a great writeup about the NY Times' new Facebook application. Josh Catone points out that it's better than some other newspaper based applications in that it acts as a tool that drives people back to the...
September 5, 2007
Facebook seems to be getting around to taking a play from MySpace.com's play book by opening up their user's profiles to search engines like Google. Arguably, this isn't new news, since we wrote about it here back in May, but...
August 26, 2007
Blogging can be a powerful marketing tool for businesses with interesting stories to tell. I believe this is especially true in businesses where building a personal relationship with propsects or showcasing one's expertise has the potential to translate into sales....
August 17, 2007
It's great to hear that the Where I've Been application on Facebook has been acquired by TripAdvisor.com. UPDATE: they have not been acquired. Biggest Facebook App Acquisition Yet: TripAdvisor Acquires Where I've Been for Reported $3 Million Just two months...
July 25, 2007
VentureBeat has an interesting story explaining that some companies are seeing a spike in traffic to their sites due to their integration of their applications with the Facebook platform. For example, HotOrNot.com offers a Facebook interface for their site: Surprise:...
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