RockYou Gets Top Facebook Application. Slide Going Down?
Monday, December 3rd, 2007Did Facebook Lie About Beacon to Gain Advertisers?
Saturday, December 1st, 2007A report from the New York Times implies that Facebook mislead advertisers who signed on to be “Landmark Partners” when the company announced its Beacon platform on November 6th. According to Coca-Cola’s vice president of global interactive marketing: “I … certainly understood that it would be opt-in. That’s what I ...
Facebook Gets $60 Million From Hong Kong Billionaire
Friday, November 30th, 2007Facebook did not get additional $500 million from hedge funds (yet), as announced by our favorite blogger without a clue, Fake Steve Jobs, and later Wall Street Journal; however, Hong Kong billionaire Li Ka-Shing stepped in and invested $60 million in Facebook. Li Ka-Shing is the chairman of network operator ...
Confirmed: Facebook Caves, Changes Coming to Beacon
Friday, November 30th, 2007It looks like Facebook has listened to the outcry from users and privacy groups about Beacon. Nick O’Neill has received word from the company that they will be making updates that will make user’s much more aware of information that could be published to their feeds based on actions ...
College Tonight Raises $1.6M to Compete with Facebook
Thursday, November 29th, 2007Restricted college network College Tonight has completed its reverse merger with Simex Technologies, making it a wholly-owned subsidiary of Simex. College Tonight raised $1,639,500 in equity capital as part of the transaction, and is also now part of a publicly traded company. Zachary R. Suchin, the founder ...
The Daily Poll: Will Facebook Cave to Beacon Critics?
Thursday, November 29th, 2007Facebook seems to be losing the PR battle to keep its controversial Beacon advertising system in place as-is. Earlier today we learned that the company is considering changes, and a response to the criticism has been issued by a Facebook employee in a MoveOn.org Group that has been setup ...
Mark Cuban’s Radical Idea: Facebook Classifieds that Pay You to Sell
Thursday, November 29th, 2007Mark Cuban’s latest radical idea: classifieds. His latest Facebook application, Radical Buy, lets you buy and sell items through the popular social network. It doesn’t sound all that radical, but it has an interesting twist. Borrowing from the affiliate advertising model, sellers can offer a commission for users that ...
Report: Facebook Might Make Beacon Less Creepy
Thursday, November 29th, 2007Facebook is reportedly discussing changes to Beacon, the advertising system that has drawn much criticism since launching earlier this month. With formal complaints coming from MoveOn.org and potentially the FTC, the company has been left with little choice but to make modifications to the system, which reports on your ...
Facebook Application “Crushes” Acquired by Buddy Media
Thursday, November 29th, 2007Buddy Media, the company behind the nicely-funded AceBucks Facebook application, has acquired the Crushes application to add to its ever-growing repertoire. The amount for the acquisition was not disclosed, but Crushes reportedly has about 30,000 daily active users, which is about 3% of its total user base. The ...
Canadian Bosses Think Facebook Is More Important than TV
Thursday, November 29th, 2007A recent study from Veritas Communications in Canada shows that about half of business leaders think that social media is more important than mass media for marketing purposes. And what does social media entail? According to those polled, social media includes Facebook, YouTube and blogs. Forty-six percent ...
First Steps Towards Inbox 2.0? My Yahoo Adds Facebook Module.
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007Yahoo now has a Facebook module that you can add to your My Yahoo start page. It will tell you some basics about your Facebook status: how many new messages you have, if you’ve got any pending friend requests, invitations, and pokes. This is a fairly interesting ...
Best of Mashable: Facebook
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007With the recent news that Facebook’s traffic growth may be leveling off, it seems like an appropriate time to take a walk back through Mashable’s history with the social networking site. What follows is just a taste of some of our Facebook coverage, but we tried to hit some ...
MovieClique: Blockbuster’s Bad Attempt at a Facebook App
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007Blockbuster has a Facebook application called MovieClique, and it does exactly what you would expect it to do. Search for movies, rate and review them, and create lists. For each movie available in the application, there’s several actions you can take: mark it as seen, want to ...
Pluck It Open. Social Nets on Facebook and OpenSocial.
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007Pluck is planning on offering its SiteLife social networking platform to be used with Facebook applications and Google’s OpenSocial next year. The company behind Blogburst, Pluck’s got a few months before developers and web publishers can expect to see the availability of SiteLife for integration with popular social networking ...
comScore: MySpace Continues Domination of Facebook
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007Gian Flugoni of ComScore released some data the company recently presented at the Forrester Consumer Forum that speaks to the ratios of visitor and ad impression shares between MySpace and Facebook. The numbers are interesting, and the implications admittedly difficult to interpret, but the raw numbers come as no ...
coComment Yourself on Facebook
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007coComment has found another way to let you follow your comments across the web. It has two new Facebook applications that will track and display the comments from blogs and websites that you participate in. One app is for individual users, while the other is for publishers. ...
Facebook App Sees Small Selling Price. What’s it Really Worth?
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007A Facebook application called Advent Calendar (one of a handful) had put itself up for sale on eBay last week, but hasn’t gotten more than $7,099 by the final bidding time. That wasn’t enough to meet the reserve, and gives a rather dismal outlook to the overall value of ...
ABC News + Facebook = Epic Fail
Monday, November 26th, 2007We noted this weekend that ABC would be joint venturing with Facebook on the politics section of the site, showcasing ABC News’ political coverage of the campaign. I assumed (incorrectly, it would appear) that Facebook would be the big winner in the partnership, as ABC wouldn’t be getting any ad ...
Why Beer Companies Don’t Have Facebook Photo Contests
Monday, November 26th, 2007Molson, the brewer, thought it would be great to get more involved with social networking marketing. And what better place to start than Facebook? A photo contest set up by Molson for marketing purposes asked Facebook users to share images of their college partying. Facebook, of all ...
Facebook: New Home for Ron Paul Fans
Monday, November 26th, 2007Facebook and ABC News have formally established a partnership that allows Facebook members to electronically follow reporters from the news network, view reports and video as well as participate in polls and debates, all within the new “U.S. Politics” category. ABC and Facebook made the announcement by way of ...
Facebook Optimized for Windows Mobile
Monday, November 26th, 2007Microsoft has released developer tools for the creation of optimized Facebook applications on Windows Mobile. See the developer tools here. The good thing about these tools is the integration with pretty much all the Windows Mobile applications themselves, so you’ll be able to let your Facebook apps take advantage ...
Facebook Blocked In Syria
Sunday, November 25th, 2007The government of Syria has made the move to block Facebook inside their borders. According to sources speaking with Reuters, the official statement from officials is that they fear “Facebook could become a conduit for Israeli penetration of our youth”. Critics of the government say that it is really to cut ...
Facebook: Goodbye, and Thanks for the Mammaries
Saturday, November 24th, 2007After coverage on Mashable and elsewhere, Facebook has removed the porn ads that sneaked in over Thanksgiving - ads for a webcam site showed topless women in the Facebook sidebar. The company also put out a statement explaining their boob: Facebook strictly prohibits pornography and adult content as part ...
Europe Doesn’t Like Facebook Beacon Either
Saturday, November 24th, 2007The upcoming year of 2008 will prove to be quite interesting for online advertising. And if the European Union has anything to do with it, online advertising will become more and more regulated. And that’s because of the numerous lines of privacy online advertising seems to be overstepping ...
