Five articles/stories/campaigns I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. WHOA: Microsoft DID Try To Sell Bing To Facebook via Business Insider Ikea Pays Rent on Portion of Your Home Its Catalog Occupies via AdWeek Unilever Claims It Has A Facebook App That Deletes Rival Companies’ Ads via Business Insider [...]
We’ve all heard by now that Facebook has acquired Instagram, the mobile photo app, for $1Billion. What I found more interesting though, was the way in which it was announced. It was announced on Facebook founder Mark Zuckerbergs Timeline. Breaking news directly from Facebook, and from a public Timeline. When you think of breaking news [...]
Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. The Guy Who Says He Owns 50% Of Facebook Just Filed A Boatload Of New Evidence — And It’s Breathtaking by Henry Blodget, Business Insider http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-lawsuit-paul-ceglia-new-evidence-2011-4 Trouble @ Twitter by Jessi Hempel, Fortune tech.fortune.cnn.com/2011/04/14/troubletwitter/ How Paywalls Are Changing News Organizations’ Social Media Strategies by Meghan [...]
Yesterday, Facebook acquired Israeli mobile developer Snaptu (rumored amounts have valued the deal at $70 Million but we’ll have to wait and see). So what does Snaptu do? They enable popular smartphone apps to run on non-smartphones. This means that people with “regular” phones can access apps such as Facebook, LinkedIn, twitter, and more. It’s [...]
Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. The Real Story Behind Twitter’s Ridiculous Follow Bug by John Herrman, Gizmodo http://gizmodo.com/5535536 Google Experiment Gets Creative Job Seeker an Agency Post by Andy Dugdale, Fast Company http://www.fastcompany.com/1646590/the-google-job-experiment-gets-creative-work-seeker-an-agency-post Facebook Apologists Miss The Point: Facebook Isn’t The Future by Stowe Boyd http://www.stoweboyd.com/message/facebook-apologists-miss-the-point-facebook-isnt-the-future.html Creating a Magazine Over [...]
Five articles I liked/thought were important/found interesting this past week. Social Media’s Expanding Role in College Admissions by Elizabeth Schiffman, Politics Daily http://www.politicsdaily.com/2010/05/07/social-medias-expanding-role-in-college-admissions/ Facebook And Social Game Companies: The Honeymoon’s Over by Oliver Chiang, Forbes http://blogs.forbes.com/velocity/2010/05/07/facebook-and-social-game-companies-the-honeymoons-over/ Facebook’s Gone Rogue; It’s Time for an Open Alternative by Ryan Singel, Wired http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/05/facebook-rogue/ Teenage Insults, Scrawled on Web, [...]