(Source: adweek.com)
The money men don’t waste any time, do they?
Big protests set for early in week of NATO/G8 summits: With protests planned before and during the NATO/G8 summits, Ald. Rick Munoz says he’ll introduce legislation in the City Council to prohibit police from blocking access to social-networking sites and cellphone networks during the summits.
Under what conditions (if any) should authorities be able to restrict social media/cell phone networks?
Credit: infekted.it
You should turn it on and it should say, ‘Fourteen of your friends liked “Entourage” this week. Click to watch.’
— You should turn it on and it should say, ‘Fourteen of your friends liked “Entourage” this week. Click to de-friend them.’
(Source: newyorker.com)
The click-through rate on Facebook ads is .05%.
I just saw someone selling necklaces on facebook.
Like, using a facebook album to promote the items and selling them to their friends and friends of friends. And when she sells a necklace, she tags it as buyer. Which is smart, because that’s how I stumbled across this. “Why is that necklace tagged as B? That necklace is AWESOME. OH LOOK AT ALL OF THIS.”
Interesting, if limited, sales strategy.
“Facebook has created three key things: Seamless messaging, conversation history, and a social inbox. Essentially, they’ve created a way to communicate no matter what format you want to use: email, chat, SMS — they’re all included.”
via TechCrunch
Bruce Mau Design redesigns the Facebook profile page
“We invited Bruce Mau Design, a firm famous for its conceptual ambition, to reimagine what a Facebook page might be. To signal that they were aiming at more than a cosmetic redo, BMD’s design director Paddy Harrington and his team left many of Facebook’s graphic details intact…” —via The Washington Post
Did Facebook popularity help in predicting Election Night winners? An early sample of some of the hottest House and Senate races bodes well for the world’s largest social networking site. The Facebook political team’s initial snapshot of 98 House races shows that 74% of candidates with the most Facebook fans won their contests. In the Senate, our initial snapshot of 19 races shows that 81% of candidateswith the most Facebook fans won their contests. The U.S. Politics on Facebook Page (Facebook.com/USpolitics) will offer more comprehensive coverage later today. Stay tuned.
tedr:
Amazing Facts About Facebook And Breakups | Mathias Mikkelsen
Tracking when breakups are posted to Facebook over the year.
Okay, this is good. Really good.
Facebook is now suggesting that I “like” my own jokes. Don’t have to ask me twice.
