Facebook presented a live concert from Foo Fighters last weekend. The live performance was streamed from their Studio 606 in California. Dave Grohl‘s Foo Fighters is hugely popular on Facebook with over 800.000 fans. The concert event was to promote their latest album Greatest Hits which will be released today November 3rd. According to Foo [...]
October 14, 2009
Everybody Wants To Do Social Media. Nobody Knows How. What the F**K is Social Media? -Part Two.
If you are still wondering what is the current state of Social Networking, Social Media or Social Media Marketing, have a look at part two of the awesome presentation series by the Boston-based communications expert, Marta Kagan. wtfismp2 View more documents from Marta Kagan. If you missed part one, you can see it here.. If [...]
September 16, 2009
Facebook Exceeds 300.000.000 Users
Facebook announced yesterday that they are the world’s largest social network on the planet. Facebook’s founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg made the announcement claiming that Facebook has now more than 300 million users worldwide. It seems like only yesterday they had a mere 150 million users and that has now doubled in 13 months! Mr. [...]
September 7, 2009
Social Media is More Interesting Than Porn
Social Media is more interesting than porn. See this and other interesting Social Media facts and figures on Eric Qualman’s original video Social Media Revolution.
August 18, 2009
Hillary Duff Enjoys Her Starbucks Fix over Coke.
Earlier this month, Starbucks surpassed Coca Cola becoming the most popular brand on Facebook, with close to 3.8 million fans. Coca Cola has a tad over 3.6 million fans at the moment. (Hilary Duff here isn’t doing bad either with over 570.000 fans on her official Facebook page.) This is a direct result of Starbucks’ [...]
August 7, 2009
What the F**K is Social Media?
If you are still wondering what is Social Networking, Social Media, Social Media Advertising or Social Media Marketing, have a look at this excellent presentation by a Boston-based communications professional, Marta Kagan. This was done about a year ago, so some of the figures are obviously too low. For instance in November 2008 Facebook had [...]
July 30, 2009
Facebook Flower Shop Launched
Businesses are gradually realising the commercial potential of 250 million Facebook users and opening shops inside Facebook. The latest shop to open doors is 1-800-flowers.com founded by Jim McCann who started his first retail store in 1976 in New York. Now the online flower retailer has launched an e-commerce store which they claim to be [...]
July 25, 2009
25 Things I Hate About Facebook
250 million people seem to love Facebook. Here’s a different, humorous view by Julian Smith and his friends… If you enjoyed this post, then make sure you subscribe to my RSS Feed or ReTweet.
July 13, 2009
Facebook Money Is Coming! Is It Second Life’s Linden Dollars?
As advertisers are increasingly interested in Facebook advertising, ad revenues are not the only source of revenue for Facebook. Facebook started testing virtual currency just a few months ago so the company could also be profiting from the sale of virtual goods. With these “virtual money credits” Facebook users could carry out transactions in certain [...]
July 2, 2009
Michael Jackson Is Huge On Facebook
Michael Jackson died last Thursday in his home in Los Angeles 25th June 2009. The 50-year-old musical genius was preparing for what would have been a series of 50 mega concerts starting July 13 in London. He was the most talented and the most kind musician that ever lived. We will miss him dearly. Michael [...]
June 25, 2009
Facebook Advertisers Triple In a Year
The number of customers using Facebook’s online-advertising system has more than tripled in the past 12 months. This means that more and more small- and medium- sized businesses are now using Facebook as part of their online marketing strategy. Lots of local businesses are now finding success in this advertising model. Facebook launched its advertising [...]
June 15, 2009
Facebook Name Launch Was a Hit! Over 200.000 Usernames Registered in 3 Minutes!
Last Saturday at 1 minute past midnight Facebook launched the long awaited Facebook usernames to the general public. So far only famous people and celebrities, like good old Britney Spears here have been able to enjoy their personalised Facebook names. The public interest was huge, so there were worries how the Facebook servers could cope [...]
June 9, 2009
The Google Tsunami is Coming! Watch out Facebook!
Google has announced that its new real-time communication platform, Google Wave will be launched to the public later this year. This will be Google’s biggest product launch in their recent online history. Google Wave is designed to be a real-time communication platform. It combines email, social networking, instant messaging (IM), wikis, online chats and project [...]
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