Toronto is the first North American city to have more than one million subscribers to Facebook according to Calgary based Zinc Research.
Facebook Ads Should Have an Opt-Out
Lately I’ve been seeing far more ads on Facebook supported by implicit endorsements from friends. I’ve also had other friends share screenshots of ads and applications that I endorse.
Facebook Releases Friend Lists
Facebook’s been challenged by something of an identity crisis as both traditional social networkers and true professionals have tried to use the site. Now, to reduce the odds of a mix-up ("My boss is here? But it’s strip poker night!"), Facebook’s unveiled an organizational tool known as Friend Lists.
Latest Facebook Lawsuits, Features
There’s another rash of Facebook headlines today, and for once it looks like they’re all different. Keep reading—I’m saving the best for last! Lawsuits of late Facebook is always in and out of court. Sometimes they’re the plaintiff, such as in a case they’ve filed in federal court against some hackers, naming Brian Fabian, Josh Raskin, Ming Wu and Slickcash.com.
Steve Webb Un-Suspended From Facebook
It’s hard to blame Facebook for trying to remove phony profiles – the social networking site has often been made fun of for, say, having over a dozen Jack Sparrows onboard. Facebook’s employees accidentally went too far, though, when they disabled the profile of a member of the British Parliament.
MySpace, Facebook To Spread the Love.
Christmas isn’t even here yet and the social networking giants Facebook and MySpace are already focusing on Valentine’s Day. MySpace will introduce members to a pickup artist, while Facebookers get access Match.com’s Little Black Book, both in efforts to help members’ love lives.You remember in college when you had a large circle of male and female buddies and everything was awesome until two of the buddies started dating and then it just got weird? Well, Facebook and MySpace are looking to mimic that phenomenon online.
All Eyes On Facebook
Facebookers have made quite a stink about lack of privacy on Facebook, especially when it comes to what information appears in their news feeds. But marketers aren’t the only ones mining this unprecedented access to personal relationships; academic types are too.
The Battle Between Facebook & OpenSocial
Facebook appears to be trying to gain some ground against Google’s as-yet-unreleased OpenSocial effort by opening up its developer platform for other sites to use.
LinkedIn Changes Put it Ahead of Facebook?
LinkedIn, the business-networking site that many (including me) see as an also-ran in the social-networking game, has launched some new features, including a redesigned homepage and a rollout of its previously announced developer platform, which it hopes will make its network as extensible as Facebook has with the F8 platform.
ABC News, Facebook Fail Together (So Far)
With no disrespect to any particular anchor or employee, ABC News just isn’t one of my favorite entities. It wasn’t overly disappointing, then, to learn that a joint venture with Facebook has thus far failed to gained traction or generate traffic.