Posts Tagged with ‘facebook’

Toolgether Offers a Paid-for Widgets Model

Svetlana Gladkova

Toolgether is one of the companies launching today at the DEMOfall conference. Today is the private beta launch date for the company so we should probably be careful in our assessments of its usefulness and future but so far the future looks bright enough to me.
So Toolgether serves as a marketplace for anyone to find [...]

ComScore Stats: Yahoo Still Reaches the Majority of Web Population with Display Ads

Svetlana Gladkova

Today comScore released a press release detailing its statistics on online display advertising in June - both largest publishers and largest advertisers. The data is quite predictable and I believe many of us (I mean, those that choose not to enable any ad blockers in their browsers): Microsoft is the largest advertiser followed by University [...]

Barack Obama Uses the Power of Social Media Noticed by Mainstream Media

Svetlana Gladkova

There’s an interesting article on Business Week today written by CEO of online reputation management company Rapleaf detailing the history of presidential candidates using various cutting-edge technologies of their respective ages to target voters better - from radio to television and cable ad networks. Now that we live in the 2.0 world there’s definitely tons [...]

Further Changes on Facebook: Not Only the Circled Number of Messages in the Inbox

Svetlana Gladkova

This morning when I logged in to Facebook I realized that I saw something new - and that very little something was a circled number of new messages in my inbox. It was kind of obvious that it was unlikely for Facebook to update the design without adding any new features but this small one [...]

Weighing Business Against Friendship: Exactly Why Is Facebook Valuated That Much Higher Than LinkedIn?

Svetlana Gladkova

Eric Eldon over at VentureBeat has two interesting posts today about both Facebook and LinkedIn allowing their employees to sell up to 20% of their stock options in each of the respective company. Eric has a great and insightful analysis of both companies and how these decisions could work out but to [...]

International Social Networks are Unwanted Invaders in Russia, Too

Svetlana Gladkova

Since I am not in the US, it is always fascinating to see some international news going big among US journalists and readers - so today's article in the New Your Times titled "An Innocent Abroad" was a great refreshment to me. The article has a lot of valid points about how [...]

AOL in the Lifestreaming Game with buddyupdates. Who Will Be The Next?

Svetlana Gladkova

I have bumped into a post by Mark Krynsky today titled "AOL launches buddyupdates Lifestreaming Service and Nobody Notices". Since I am far from a heavy AIM user myself (I only have 2 contacts and one of them actually forced me to get another IM protocol when I clearly felt I did [...]

Facebook News Feed Filters – Excellent With One Exception

Svetlana Gladkova

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It is definitely great new that today Facebook is rolling out the filters for the News Feed to improve our experience with the [...]

Social Median In Public Beta

Leslie Poston

Social Median has been opened up to a public beta now. Early adopter type that I am, I of course had to run right over and check it out. I’m still playing with it, but I have a few initial impressions about the overall service so far.
First, Social Median is no FriendFeed. If you were [...]

Facebook, Scrabble and Scrabulous — Why all the Hulabaloo?

Triston McIntyre

There couldn't be a better time for the intertubes to erupt in controversy over social games than the day after I post on the merits of real casual gaming in social media versus the self-proclaimed phenomenon of casual gaming, Nintendo's Wii.  I'm not sure what feeds you readers might check throughout the day, but [...]