While social networks are growing increasingly popular, quite surprisingly, they have not yet started to influence shoppers in a major way. (more…)
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Social Networks Do Not Influence Shoppers
Wednesday, 18th January 2012Tags: 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
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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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Microsoft Launches New Social Network
Monday, 19th December 2011Microsoft has just rolled out a new social networking site that experiments with the concept of social search and specifically targets students. (more…)
Tags: facebook, google plus, microsoft, social network, students
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Facebook To Remove App Pages
Monday, 12th December 2011Facebook currently creates an profile page for every application created on the network. This can lead to confusion as often businesses create apps just to enhance their main profile pages and then these apps end up having their own stand-alone page. Facebook has recently announced that they will remove all app profile pages on 1st February 2012. (more…)
Tags: apps, facebook, pages
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StumbleUpon Re-branded & Redesigned
Friday, 9th December 2011Over 17 million visitors go to StumbleUpon.com every month. The social media site, which allows users to randomly explore the Web, has just been re-branded and updated with several new features. (more…)
Tags: advertising, paid discovery, social media, social media marketing, StumbleUpon
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Facebook Updates Android App, Mobile Ads Coming Soon?
Thursday, 8th December 2011Facebook has just launched a major update for their Android app. The update brings the app closer to the experience of browsing Facebook from a computer and delivers content much faster than the older versions of the app (more…)
Tags: android, apps, facebook, mobile-social-network
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Facebook Could Be Forced To Deliver Privacy
Thursday, 1st December 2011Following the passing of new privacy guidelines for social networks by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Facebook stated that they are very willing to follow those rules. Putting this to practice may be more difficult than it seems. (more…)
Tags: Eurpean Commission, facebook, ftc, privacy
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Facebook Forced To Review User Privacy
Wednesday, 30th November 2011Over a period of time, Facebook has had to deal with a lot of problems regarding user privacy, and on Tuesday, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) laid out specific rules for Facebook to follow in this regard. (more…)
Tags: facebook, ftc, privacy, social network
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Google Pushes Google+ At Expense Of Old Products
Friday, 25th November 2011As Google’s social networking star, Google+ continues to grow and acquire interesting new features, older Google products continue to be axed, presumably to free-up resources to support their new favourite. (more…)
Tags: google, google places, google plus, google wave, knol, social network, trending topics, twitter
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Can Twitter Forecast The GOP Poll Results?
Thursday, 24th November 2011While several organisations conduct studies to predict poll results, the latest tool being used to do so is Twitter. (more…)
Tags: election, obama, social media, twitter, usa
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Facebook Ticker To Include Sponsored Stories
Tuesday, 22nd November 2011Facebook has now decided to increase the scope of advertising on their website, by placing Sponsored Stories in their recently introduced News Ticker. Could this be the first step towards having Sponsored Stories show up in the main news feed? (more…)
Tags: facebook, promoted tweets, social media marketing, sponsored stories, twitter
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Facebook Pushing Messenger On Android
Wednesday, 26th October 2011Facebook launched a stand-alone messenger app for smartphones a few months ago. Users of iPhone and Android devices can use this app to message not only their Facebook friends but also any of their mobile contacts. Facebook is now actively pushing this app to users. (more…)
Tags: beluga, facebook, google plus, social network
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LinkedIn Copies Facebook Page Updates
Friday, 7th October 2011LinkedIn, the popular social networking site for professionals, allows users to follow the progress and developments of companies they are interested in. A new feature has now been introduced that allows companies to post status updates to their followers. (more…)
Tags: facebook, linkedin, social network
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800 Million Targeted By New Facebook Ad Format
Wednesday, 5th October 2011Facebook now has over 800 million users, which is more than the entire online population of Europe and North America. Just like everyone else, Facebook is looking for new ways to make more money. Advertising is the most obvious way for a free service to earn revenues, and they’re creating new ad formats to drive up revenues in the near future. (more…)
Tags: advertising, facebook, social media marketing
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Facebook Timeline’s Potential To Embarrass Users
Thursday, 29th September 2011Facebook announced a number of new features at the f8 conference last week. While most of them are very good and improve the overall experience, users need to be very careful with the new auto-share feature. (more…)
Tags: facebook, social network, social-bookmarking, Spotify
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Microsoft Re-Launches Bing Deals
Monday, 26th September 2011Microsoft launched Bing Deals back in April of this year. They’ve now re-launched the service in an attempt to once again try and break into the daily deals market. (more…)
Tags: bing, deals, groupon
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Facebook Evolves Profiles Into Timeline
Thursday, 22nd September 2011Facebook, it seems, is determined to maintain its position as the number one social network. Keeping this in mind, they are set to make some drastic changes to their format soon. (more…)
Tags: facebook, google, google plus, social network
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Facebook, A Daily Ritual For Half Of U.K. Users
Monday, 19th September 2011It has been revealed that half of U.K.’s Facebook users log in to the popular social network on a daily basis. (more…)
Tags: facebook, social network, uk
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