Now that Facebook is a public company, it will have to redouble its efforts to make profits and keep its shareholders happy. The best way for them to generate revenue is obviously through advertising, and so Facebook will have to make all efforts to attract advertisers to their site. (more…)
Recent ‘social media’ News Stories
Facebook v Google – Online Advertising Battle
Monday, 21st May 2012Tags: advertising, facebook, google
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Why ‘Pay To Promote’ Posts On Facebook?
Monday, 14th May 2012Facebook’s frantic quest to monetize everything it possibly can before the IPO is leading to some interesting and some downright surprising product announcements. The latest is a ‘Pay To Promote Post’ scheme that they introduced last week.
Tags: facebook, pay to promote, post
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Facebook Launches App Center
Thursday, 10th May 2012Facebook has just announced that they will be launching an ‘App Center’ to enable their users to find social web, desktop and mobile apps. (more…)
Tags: apps, facebook
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Google+ Hangouts On Air For All
Wednesday, 9th May 2012Google+ has just launched their service ‘Hangouts On Air’ for all users. (more…)
Tags: cadbury, google, google plus, hangouts on air, jamie oliver
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Facebook Clarifies That They Don’t Censor Comments
Tuesday, 8th May 2012Amid allegations of censoring content on the social network, Facebook has clarified that their spam filters might prevent certain text from being posted and this could easily be misconstrued as a form of censorship – and be turned into a storm in a teacup by some bloggers.
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Tags: censorship, facebook, spam
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Social Media Providing Health Care Information
Monday, 23rd April 2012As the usage of social media continues to grow at a sometimes alarming rate, it is taking over more and more areas of ones life. One of the areas that is recently being heavily influenced by social media is the health care sector. (more…)
Tags: health care, social media, usa
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Pinterest Grows In Popularity
Wednesday, 11th April 2012The photo-sharing site Pinterest has reportedly been growing in popularity. According to recent reports it is now the third most popular social site in America. (more…)
Tags: pinterest, social media
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Facebook Buys Photo-Sharing App
Tuesday, 10th April 2012With barely a few weeks to go before the launch of the Facebook IPO, CEO Mark Zuckerberg is going all out to improve the features of his social network. (more…)
Tags: facebook, instagram, mobile, photo-sharing
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Revamped Search Functions On Facebook
Monday, 2nd April 2012Facebook and Google have been trying to outdo each other at their own game, for a while now. (more…)
Tags: facebook, google, search, social media
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Pinterest Bows To Pressure, Updates Terms
Monday, 26th March 2012Pinterest, the hot new social media site on the block, has recently faced problems with regard to copyright infringement. In an attempt to sort out these issues, they have updated some of the terms on their website. (more…)
Tags: copyright, flickr, pinterest
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Facebook Launches New Ads For Gamers
Friday, 23rd March 2012Following the announcement of their IPO, Facebook has been busy trying to monetise their website, in every way they can. They recently introduced ads within social games on the network and now they’re making this facility widely available. (more…)
Tags: dealspot, facebook, gaming
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Unforeseen Dangers Of Social Networking
Wednesday, 14th March 2012Those who invented applications like geo-tagging and timeline for the various social media services available to us surely never intended that these features should endanger the lives of people. (more…)
Tags: facebook, foursquare, geolocation, geotagging, social media, timeline
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Social Media Marketing Challenges: Resources, Measurement
Thursday, 8th March 2012Measuring the effectiveness of social media marketing and allocating sufficient resources to it were identified as the biggest challenges facing marketers in 2012. (more…)
Tags: social media, social media marketing
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Facebook Overhauls Advertising And Brand Pages
Friday, 2nd March 2012Facebook has announced that they will soon launch a range of new services including a facility to allow advertisers to place ads on mobiles and in their main homepage news feed. This will be the first time that ads will be seen in the main content section of the popular social network or on their mobile service. (more…)
Tags: advertising, facebook, mobile advertising, mobile-social-network, social media marketing, social-network-advertising, timeline
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Facebook’s Censorship Guidelines
Friday, 24th February 2012How Facebook decides what content is to be published and what is to be banned has intrigued many users. Some light has now been shed on this issue. (more…)
Tags: censorship, facebook
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Verified Accounts For Celebrities On Facebook
Wednesday, 22nd February 2012Facebook has just launched a new service that will verify the accounts of celebrities. (more…)
Tags: entertainment, facebook, google plus, lady gaga, twitter
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Social Networks Do Not Influence Shoppers
Wednesday, 18th January 2012While social networks are growing increasingly popular, quite surprisingly, they have not yet started to influence shoppers in a major way. (more…)
Tags: search, social media, social media marketing
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Social Networking Most Popular Online Activity
Wednesday, 11th January 2012A recent report from comScore highlights the fact that social networking is today the most popular activity, worldwide on the Internet. (more…)
Tags: facebook, google, micro-blogging, social network, twitter
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Google+ Still Showing Huge Growth
Wednesday, 4th January 2012Google’s social network, Google+, which launched publicly only last July has surprised everyone by continuing to sustain its growth spurt. (more…)
Tags: google, google plus, social network
Posted in google, social media | 2 Comments »
Facebook Launches Always-On Messenger Client
Tuesday, 3rd January 2012Facebook has just started testing a new app called Facebook Messenger for Windows. By using this app, PC users can access Facebook direct from their desktop without going to www.facebook.com (more…)
Tags: facebook, messenger, social media
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