Social Media Revolver

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Facebook has launched its new, updated Marketplace.  Facebook Marketplace is a space where users can sell their unwanted stuff.  This time the Marketplace is powered by a company with a funny name, Oodle. Despite the name they are a big online classifieds company founded by former Excite and eBay executives. Since its launch in 2005, [...]

Facebook, turning five years old recently, has now become the most popular social networking site in the world. Ranked by number of total visits, Facebook has now over a billion visits a month. By comparison, MySpace has 810 million visits. The positions reversed from a year ago, when MySpace was the most popular site and [...]

As we speculated last month, Facebook is about to hand over its official classifieds listings to a partner, and that partner is Oodle, we have been able to confirm. An announcement may be made as early as tomorrow. What is interesting about this deal is that Oodle already powers the classifieds on MySpace. Even though [...]

Facebook has hit a new milestone: 150 million active global users. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in his blog yesterday that his social networking site had hit another huge milestone. Over 150 million people are now actively using Facebook and nearly half of them use Facebook every day. Most of Facebook’s new members now come [...]

A Trojan Virus called KoobFace has recently been bothering users on Facebook. KoobFace sends messages to friends of infected users asking  them to click on a special link. If you click on the link you will get a message that you need to update your Flash player in order to view a special video. Obviously, [...]

The notorious ‘Nigerian 419′ scam is normally easy to spot since it mostly involves requests for money from supposedly rich individuals in African countries such as Nigeria, from which the fraud gets its name. The latest Facebook attacks are much craftier, because they try to hijack the identities of real people and/or friends known to [...]

Study released today by the MacArthur Foundation suggests that using Facebook and other Social Networking sites is more useful than not. A team of researchers working on the foundation’s “Digital Youth Project” concluded that interaction with new media such as Facebook is increasingly becoming an essential part of becoming a competent citizen in the digital [...]

Facebook has hit a milestone! Over 100 million people around the world are now using Facebook as their main social networking site. Wow, that’s a lot of people to advertise to! Just think about the endless possiblilities if you could talk directly to 100 million targeted people. For instance, if you are a yoga instructor [...]

Facebook’s international growth has been strong over the last year, with a whopping 117% growth in monthly visitors and 75% growth in page views. US growth has been impressive as well, up 33% from 31 million to 42 million. Both Bebo and MySpace are losing popularity in UK as Facebook continues to grow its audience.

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