Archive for October, 2008
Twitter Helloween Icons
1 Comment Published by Rodney Rumford October 31st, 2008 in Facebook Applications, twitter.A quick little trick for all you twitter users. Spruce up your Halloween tweets today with some slick little Halloween icons. just copy and past the characters to the right of the image into the body of your tweet and they will be converted when you tweet. Now go scare someone.
Twitter Helloween Icons
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Happy Halloween: Friendfeed out Google’s Google
5 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford October 31st, 2008 in Friendfeed.Social network start up Friendfeed out Google’s Google. How? Well simply put it is all in the image.
It is Halloween and Google has been known for their clever images to celebrate different holidays and occasions. Well what struck me this morning when I saw the Google Halloween image was how terrible it was. The Friendfeed […]
Report: Retailers Have Facebook Fan Pages. Most Are Pretty Lame!
6 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford October 30th, 2008 in Branding, Facebook, business.eMarketer has released a list of Retail brands that have created a facebook page. More retailers maintain fan pages or distinct pages on facebook over every other social network. The number is up over early 2008 numbers. This is good and bad. The good news are brands are moving into social networks. The bad news […]
Power of Facebook Events: ~10K people in under 2 hours
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford October 29th, 2008 in Branding, Facebook, business.If any marketer or brand manager doubts the power of facebook marketing and advertising; they should read this quick little informal case study (happening as we write this).
Today at noon I saw an advertisement for a facebook Event in the Sponsored position on the facebook home page: FREE Ben & Jerry’s on Election Day! So […]
Twitter to Enhance Search? Something is Up.
3 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford October 22nd, 2008 in twitter.Is twitter enhancing their search functionality for finding people and their respective tweets? Lets sure hope so. The people search (not to be confused with search.twitter.com) has always been fairly flat and the results only marginally decent.
Twitter people search has been down for the last 8 hours. It is temporarily disabled, so something is happening. […]
Facebook Put’s the SmackDown on Child Predators
1 Comment Published by Rodney Rumford October 14th, 2008 in Facebook.Keeping social eco-systems such as Facebook safe form the leeches in society takes determination and a concerted effort. Facebook has just announced that they are taking significant steps in this direction in the area of child predators.
Facebooks chief communication officer Barry Schnitt “We commit to checking new and existing users against the resulting database […]
MySpace Launches myAds Platform
4 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford October 12th, 2008 in Marketing, MySpace, MySpace Platform.MySpace MyAds advertising network launches. Effective monday myspace will announce the launch of their new MyAds advertising platform. As advertisers are trying to reach into social networks this move by MySpace is quite timely.
MySpace on monday will officially announce the domestic beta launch of ‘MySpace MyAds’ (https://advertise.myspace.com), the new advertising platform designed to empower […]
Dear Abby Get’s Crowdsourced with Agonymous
1 Comment Published by Rodney Rumford October 12th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Applications.Agnonymous: Rating:
Dear Abby,
You have grown outdated, fuddy, slow and 1 dimensional. I have decided to leave you for a new facebook application called Agonymous.
Agonymous allows users to submit personal problems anonymously to their social graph and have their friends compete to give the best advice. Before Agonymous, people would either share a problem […]
NING Makes Big Inroads with OpenSocial Support
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford October 11th, 2008 in OpenSocial.NING Makes Big Inroads with OpenSocial Support for over 500,000 communities. For every social network created on the Ning Platform, members are able to browse through a branded directory of OpenSocial applications to add to their profile pages with a single click.
At yesterdays launch, each social network on Ning offers over 25 OpenSocial applications […]
Facebook Does Not Want Your Blog Comments Public
4 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford October 10th, 2008 in Facebook.I have been a fan of facebook for a very long time. I have championed their brand, products and services. However they are breaking a cardinal rule that we have been preaching to our clients for the last 5 years: be transparent. The facebook blog is a way for them to disseminate information to their […]
