I wrote a post in August about marketing more effectively on Facebook by aiming for Facebook Primetime – the time when the most people in your network are viewing content being published on Facebook. Facebook Primetime is the same concept that television stations use. Since I’ve written that post, I’ve gotten a number of good [...]
At least that’s what all the signs seem to be indicating. I’ve been trying to watch the evolution of online social network payments fairly closely as eCommerce is something near and dear to my heart. Being an entrepreneur, the next cutting edge area of eCommerce is of particular interest, and social networks is definitely one [...]
I don’t mean to be quite so social media oriented this week (whether through ideas or just tips), but I am a bit disgruntled. After reading recent news about Facebook working on a “lite” interface design it appears that my Facebook Newsfeed has had a little updating as well, namely, the removal of my Highlights. [...]
It’s obvious what’s being driven as the next big thing online is the “real-time” web. People are wanting to know what’s going on as it’s happening. As a marketer, it’s always important for me to recognize how the real-time web effects people’s search habits, and its effects on how people share and “consume” information online. [...]
Last month I wrote a post on why Facebook should open up, and mentioned some of the subsequent benefits of doing so. Well, last week Facebook made everything published from your “What’s on your mind?” box available to view by everyone (including robots*), unless otherwise specified in your privacy settings. How many people do we [...]
Twitter is a great service. I mean, who doesn’t love to be constricted to 140 characters when they want to say something? Less is more, after all. And the less room you have to say in one tweet, the more you have to say in several, which means the more time you have to spend [...]
The biggest complaint I often heard from professionals about using Facebook as a networking tool was the lack of granular (read: very specific) control over just what “friends” of theirs see their information. Facebook has just remedied this by allowing just such granular control. While Facebook has always worked out well for college students, these [...]
I’ve spoken with Ryan Healy about his post on how we all work for Facebook and some continued thought has sparked on my end regarding application developers (and us as users, which is more toward the bottom). One such thing in particular is the relatively kind phrase attributed to Facebook of “Walled Garden” when referring [...]
Before I get into it, Facebook’s PR is brilliant (read last bold paragraph for explanation). There’s been a lot of talk on Facebook Beacon and its privacy settings. Really, a lot. More than was probably necessary. That’s why I didn’t cover it. But now that the whole thing is over, and in the event you [...]
I was thinking about Facebook Status and Twitter the other night. While I usually think of it as “Facebook Status vs. Twitter” a different thought came to mind. What if it was “Facebook Status then Twitter”? While the two services are basically the same when it comes to their purpose – life streaming – their [...]