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Unfortunately, with the death of any high profiled celebrity, opportunistic scammers will try to capitalize off internet traffic and interest following said death. So it’s no surprise Amy Winehouse death scams took to Facebook just hours after she was found dead in her Camden home on Saturday. Watch where you click when this star’s name [...]
Since EmpireAvenue launched last month, the site has taken off and appears well on its way to outshining Klout and other influence metrics for social media. EmpireAvenue combines online networking and a virtual stock market to help come up with a value for each user on Facebook based on degree of influence. In contrast to Klout, [...]
When a user clicks one of your ads, you have an opportunity. A person in your target market is saying, “I’ll go wherever you send me.” So, you need to create your ad to answer that question in a way that benefits your company as much as possible. If you’re usingFacebook ads, that means deciding [...]
Facebook has apparently disabled RSS links on pages, about a year and a half after incorporating them. Although they have never been completely consistent on this issue, it is telling that this feature has been silently disabled. Blogger Jessie Stay points out that users can no longer subscribe to someone’s Facebook Page via RSS. After [...]
Imagine your favorite television series. Now imagine interacting with fellow fans, online, as players of an interactive digital game based on the show. Fans of the Fox psychological television drama, “The Booth at the End,” recently debuted in London, can do just that. A new social game called “The Deal” was recently created for Facebook [...]
Unless you enjoy exposing yourself and those you care about tomalware and spam, don’t click on anything touting a game based on theTwilight series of movies and books by Stephenie Meyer. Our friends at Sophos were the first to point out a rogue application promising “Play Twilight: Breaking Dawn Be the first of your friends to play [...]
I’ve been going back and forth with the editor of our sibling blog, AllFacebook.de, about how the 17.9 million German users of Facebook have migrated from usingStudiverzeichnis, or StudiVZ for short. Both in Germany and here, Facebook didn’t come first, but people migrated to the Palo Alto-based social network after first using other sites. The main [...]
This afternoon Facebook announced that the recently launched comment system has now been installed on over 50,000 websites, and to mark the milestone the site is releasing a number of new features. Larger News Feed Stories One of the most significant upgrades is an increased size for comments in the news feed. The result is [...]
In Mediabistro’s online class called Facebook Marketing, you’ll learn how to use and apply proven social media marketing strategies and techniques, build a fan base, and grow your business. The course starts this Thursday, April 14, and runs until May 12. By the end of class, you will have a Facebook marketing strategy and a clear understanding [...]
If you want to show your Facebook Statuses and you are hosting on a WordPress.com blog that restricts you from installing plugins, try this. The following method make use of Facebook status feed and WordPress RSS widget. It will also work for self-host WordPress blogs, but you guys who self-host can use better plugins for that. [...]