by tstample on February 5, 2010
Facebook turned 6 years old today and simultaneously hit the 400 million users mark. Just two months ago, they surpassed 350 million users and have shown astonishing growth as website users are becoming more social.
by Jon Clark on February 2, 2010
The constant challenge of freelancing lies in continually creating ways to market oneself and drum up repeat and new business. This is rarely, if ever, an easy thing to accomplish. The good news is, with the explosion in social media, this has become a slight bit easier.
We all know social networks such as Twitter and [...]
by Jon Clark on February 1, 2010
In December, Facebook implemented yet another round of controversial privacy updates and changes in an effort to compete more widely with the more open social networks like Twitter.
As part of this update, Facebook implemented a “transition tool” which appeared at the top of Facebook homepages this past month with its own selection of recommended settings. [...]
by Jon Clark on January 30, 2010
Last summer, Microsoft founder Bill Gates made the somewhat surprising announcement that he was quitting Facebook after being inundated with friend requests, explaining “It was just way too much trouble so I gave it up”. It looks like he’s decided to give Facebook another try. A few days ago, Gates launched both a new Facebook [...]
by Jon Clark on January 29, 2010
For those of you with a Page on Facebook, you’d probably like to know how many people interacted with the stories you’ve posted. Luckily, Facebook is gradually rolling a new feature called Post Insights. This feature will allow you to see the number of impressions and feedback for each post.
While were not yet seeting Insights [...]
by Jon Clark on January 27, 2010
When Microsoft invested $240 million to take a small stake in Facebook, the deal almost more about securing an ad deal as it was an equity investment. Now, almost two years later, Microsoft is starting to see some of its advertising pulled as Facebook continues to create its own ad options and revenue models.
According to [...]
by Jon Clark on January 25, 2010
According the the Facebook Developers blog, Facebook is now granting developers on Platform the ability to request (or require) users to hand over their email addresses. By doing so, developers can begin sending periodic messages directly to users.
This actually doesn’t come as a surprise: Facebook initially talked about e-mail requirements last October and has kept [...]
