In two weeks, the Facebook Gift Shop will be closing its virtual doors; a move that has some relieved, some surprised, and others excited. Many are relieved that they won’t be pestered with virtual (read: fake) gifts that Facebook suggests users purchase for their friends and which clutter everyone’s profiles. The move is also a [...]
Ready? Nothing. My Google Reader (I know, “why do you still use a Google Reader??” I like my Reader, chill out) has been inundated with chatter about the new Google social network, “Me,” that is supposed to rival Facebook, and, while it does seem like big news, really is not what I want to be reading about. Why is Google trying to make another foray into the social network biz?
With the World Cup in full swing, Twitter, being a truly global social network (by now, less than 50% of tweets are in English), has been adding in fun little tchotchkes into the stream including soccer balls when you tag tweets with #worldcup and flags when you use country hashtags. It’s a great way to [...]
About a month ago, Techcrunch announced that Facebook would be rolling out location-based checkin functionality for their mobile app, and that it would most likely be dubbed the “Places” tab. Geo-location is all the rage now, with Foursquare nearing 1 million checkins a day and Gowalla at a quarter million users, and while it’s no [...]
Initially, all the changes announced at the f8 Conference made me really excited. As the weeks go buy, though, I keep finding little things that irk me. Have we decided whether or not we’re migrating to the “Likes” on Facebook/the entire Internet, or if we’re still using “Fans” occasionally? We know why Facebook went with [...]
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been playing, as we all have, with the new Facebook social plug-ins across the Web, and I’ve come across a problem. It’s an organizational problem, and as some of you know, I have more than mild obsessive compulsive disorder, so the fact that I haven’t been able to find [...]
Yesterday, “Star Wars Day” for those of you not in-the-know (May the 4th Be With You), Twitter announced (thanks SocialTimes) the launch of a brilliant tool, dubbed Blackbird Pie, that allows bloggers and others to snag an html coded version of a single tweet. When you paste in the URL of the original tweet, Blackbird [...]
So a ton of new stuff on the Facebook front, got that. But what’s on the horizon? We definitely haven’t heard the last about these two topics, but the “no-show” items from the f8 Developers Conference Keynote were:
Facebook Credits
Virtual Credits have been touted as one of the biggest opportunities for Facebook in 2010, and with [...]
Still giddy from some of the announcements from Facebook’s f8 yesterday.
More to come later today and tomorrow while everything sinks in, but definitely check out the replay of the keynote:
http://apps.facebook.com/feightlive/
My favorite user comments during the presentation:
“hey zuck, maybe invest in some Toastmasters for your next keynote!”
It’s true, he was mad awkward. And…
“biggest announcement from facebook [...]
So finally Twitter has decided that it may be a good idea to make some moolah. By now, I’m sure you’ve heard about the new ad platform that will bring Twitter out of the red and start bringing in the green, but if not, here’s the synopsis taken from the Twitter Blog:
What are Promoted Tweets?
“We [...]
