Facebook Readying eCommerce Offering?
I was pleasantly surprised to see a new design to the Facebook home page when I woke up this snowy Sat. morning. Facebook was even nice enough to bring attention to the new features. But one menu item easily accessible via the new pull down Account Tab on the upper right corner of the screen [...]
Blogging is a Quantity Sum Game
A wise blogger once told me that blogging was a game won by he who publishes the most. From an obvious SEO stand-point, this paradigm holds true. By creating content that in turn gets indexed via Google and the others, your site’s rank and position will improve organically.
However, I suspect the blogger was talking beyond [...]
TMobile Loses Sidekick Data – Can You Say Ooooops
T-Mobile, who last weekend had a major outage for all SideKick owners (yes, there are still some faithful who own Sidekicks, but not for much longer). However, when I contacted customer service, they continued to feed me company lies that our data was not lost and to stay tuned for further word on the restoration [...]
Putting Real-Time Data to Work
Samepoint, a company which grew out of the need to monitor and manage what people were saying about my clients, is making its vast data pipe available to the enterprise. Let me tell you a little bit about how it started. About six months ago, my co-founder and CTO, Darren Culbreath, was asked if Samepoint [...]
Paul Dunay Featured in BusinessWeek on Building Personal Brand
My cohort in crime and co-writer of Facebook Marketing for Dummies partner Paul Dunay was recently featured in Businessweek on the importance of building an online brand for yourself.
In the Sept. 25th, 2009 Special Report, titled, Getting Unstuck In Your Job Search, Dunay was quoted as saying, “Even during bad economic times, building a strong personal [...]
Facebook Welcomes Its 300-Millionth Member
Wasn’t it just several months ago that Facebook announced it had reached the miraculous milestone of 250 million members? Well, that’s old news. The network now touts 300 million members worldwide. Now, if Facebook were a country, it would be the third most populous one on the planet.
But, the company really dropped a bomb when [...]
Is Facebook Talk Just Around the Corner
According to Vivox, the leader in social network and virtual world talking applications, soon Facebook members will be able to talk to their friends as easy as they can chat via Facebook chat. The developer is event making its technology available to other Facebook application developers via API.
The potential to add talk capabilities to a [...]
Tag Your It – Facebook Adds Tagging to Notes and Updates
Tagging has been a popular Facebook photo/video feature for the past year or so. Through a simple one-click process, you can identify someone in a photo or video, which will in turn notify that person as to the reference (unless that individual’s personal profile privacy settings prevent them from being “tagged”). Today, Facebook added a [...]
Pixable Makes Printing Your Facebook Photo Albums a Snap
An MIT start-up , Pixable, enables users to create and print photo books using their Facebook content. It offers a fast, easy and creative way to transform your Facebook albums into printed memorabilia such as photo books, calendars, or posters, which are printed, packaged and home delivered, all at an affordable price.
Why would you [...]