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Friday, March 20, 2009
Facebook Developers Documentation Community Forums Events Open Source Resources Get Started Case Studies Facebook Connect fbFund Partnerships Bug Tracker Tools News Facebook Open Platform Open Source Projects Open Source Home Thrift Scribe memcached Cassandra phpsh Facebook Animation Facebook Firefox Toolbar Facebook Exporter for iPhoto flvtool++ PHPEmbed Public Patches Library Facebook Mirror Facebook Open Platform is a snapshot of the infrastructure that runs Facebook
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Callan Green has just published a great post on Mashable about brands who are really getting it right in Facebook Fan Pages. To make the most of Facebook Fan pages (or Bebo, any other social network), you need to actively engage with your fans. Phillips, herself a mother of ‘millennials’ – roughly defined as those who were pre-teen at the turn of the century - quotes her own research into how young adults view brands who attempt to ‘befriend’ them Sure, she says, “anyone can build a fan page in under 10 minutes, and some big brands may even attract fans without any real effort.
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Thursday, February 26, 2009
Back in June 2007 I wrote a popular tutorial on writing Facebook platform applications with Ruby On Rails . Time has moved on since and Facebook has launched Facebook Connect which allows you to integrate Facebook into your own sites allowing authentication, registration, friend connecting, and Facebook feed posting in the context of your application. Mashable has a great post on 10 great implementations of Facebook Connect including Joost At Made By Many we are fans of the possibilites of Facebook Connect for lowering barriers of registration, extracting social graph and injecting your social media functions into the daily online life of users.
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Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Number of Australian Twitter users for June 2009 was 800,000, according to ComScore.
Facebook in particular demonstrated significant growth; Twitter benefited from sudden mainstream popularity in 2009. Facebook led the sector with over 6 million visitors, growing 95% from last year; MySpace — whose social networking star has begun to fall — came in second with 3.5 Found this over at MarketingCharts :
Over 70% of Australian internet users visited a social networking site in June, a 29% rise from the same time last year, reports comScore.
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Wednesday, September 2, 2009
However, in this article I discuss the use of Facebook for building your list.
On Facebook , friends, page fans and followers of various applications, such as NetworkedBlogs , all belong to your list, and all receive communications from you in one form or another.
If Facebook would enable you to have an unlimited number of friends, you could probably get along without fans and followers. I have already written List Building Using Ning Social Networks and List Building Using Twitter . I
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Monday, July 13, 2009
Here’s speculation by The Business Insider on Facebook’s revenue streams:
Earlier this week (July 2nd 2009) we spoke to several sources who each have some insight into Facebook’s financials (none of them know precisely). Taking the sources’ input together, we’d estimate the company’s expected 2009 revenue this way:
$125 Social media monetization is a funny thing – most people don’t understand that where there are people, there is money. It is highly improbable that the day will come when millions of people together
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Research released by the Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) in the UK suggests that people are growing increasingly tired of requests to join brand pages or install brand applications in Facebook and other social networks . Rather than a brand trying to engage people separately in Facebook, MySpace, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and every other social network and forum site, it is better to use these as gateways to somewhere else. The research found that almost two in every three of the 2,000 respondents to the survey were fed up with the constant requests to join groups and try new applications.
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Monday, February 16, 2009
It just takes time for the older generation to find out where the photos are being uploaded, lives being discussed, and they want in.
Women over 55 take Facebook by storm
The number of US women over age 55 using Facebook grew by 175.3% since September 2008, making mature females one of the fastest growing demographic groups on the social network, according to usage statistics released Wherever the grandkids are, the grandparents follow.
This is not a-typical.
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Tuesday, July 7, 2009
The biggest group on Facebook are not university or college students, or even people in their 20s in their first job. According to analysis by iStrategyLabs , the biggest group of users on Facebook are 35-54 year olds. Their study of figures for the US that are publicly available to advertisers shows that over 28% of Facebook users are in this age-range, with a further 12% of users aged 55 or over. Image via Wikipedia
In fact the 55+ age-group is the one that has seen the largest growth in the six month to July 2009 – an impressive 514% increase in users.
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Sunday, July 19, 2009
Is your Facebook home page filling up with stuff from a few noisy friends? When you are done, the new Facebook Friends List is in the groups list. Now you want to change the Facebook Home newsfeed to show only the friends in the list, not all.
This makes it the default for HOME on Facebook. Do you really just want updates from around 20 or 50 people, not the hundreds you have somehow acquired?
The new group needs to be top of this group
First of all Create a new Friends List:
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