More Feature Interaction Within Facebook Apps
Last week, Facebook announced an update to the Open Stream API, which allows integration of Page streams with applications. Now, Facebook has opened up the new Mailbox and Notification APIs, which allow developers to provide users with more ways to interact with core Facebook features within their apps.
Tips For Online Video Optimization
It’s no secret that online video is popular, from Hulu to YouTube the number of Americans watching video continues to increase. In the SES session "The Next Wave for Online Video," the panelists focused on optimizing online video for search and other strategies.
Search, Social Media, And Missing Persons
Although search engines can be used to look up songs’ names, and with Facebook, you can keep track of your friends’ antics, search and social media can serve more important functions, too. And at SES San Jose, a session focused on using these resources to find missing persons.
FriendFeed Gets a Lot of Traffic from Twitter
There is a lot of discussion going on about Facebook, FriendFeed, Twitter, and real-time search. This is to be expected since yesterday it was announced that Facebook is acquiring FriendFeed.
Companies Should Focus On SEO
In the SES session "Search: Where To Next?" the panel discussed what the future holds for the search industry.
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OgilvyOne Worldwide CEO Hails Digital Marketing
Brian Fetherstonhaugh, the chairman and CEO of OgilvyOne Worldwide, gave a presentation at SES San Jose today titled "The Adaptive CMO: A New Paradigm for Digital Marketing." In it, Fetherstonhaugh stressed that marketers do indeed need to get online.
Where’s Bing’s Real-Time Search?
Google is working on an update called Caffeine, which will increase the speed at which it indexes content. This could be a step toward Google’s incarnation of real-time search. Facebook has just started rolling out its own real-time search feature, much like Twitter’s, which has been around for some time.
Successful Social Media Implementation Comes with Motivations
It’s interesting to look at how the web has evolved and continues to do so. Social media (at least in its current incarnation) is still relatively young, yet we have seen a lot of evolution just within this aspect of the web itself. This is highlighted today especially, as we see competition in the real-time search arena really stat to heat up.
PayPal Intros New Student Accounts
eBay-owned PayPal has launched a new way for teenagers to shop online with PayPal and in stores with the "Student Card," part of the "Student Account." The account comes with a number of capabilities for parental monitoring.
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Google’s Latest Facebook Page is for AdSense
Google recently launched its Facebook Page. Now they have launched one specifically for AdSense.
Google refers to this as one-stop shop for up-to-date info. It will be synched with the AdSense blog and Twitter account, and will also contain optimization photos and videos that are found on the AdSense YouTube channel.