Archive for November, 2008
Twitter Grows 343% According to Nielsen
1 Comment Published by Rodney Rumford November 24th, 2008 in social networks, twitter.We all have heard the buzz about twitter growing rapidly. Nielsen is reporting today the the year over year growth is at 343%. This makes twitter the fastest growing social network online by percentage of growth. What is really interesting about this statistic is that I am quite candidly surprised that they have pegged the […]
Twitter Has Eliminated People Search. Good Luck Finding People.
13 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford November 22nd, 2008 in twitter.I wrote about a month ago about how something was fishy with twitter people search functionality. Twitter had “temporarily” disabled this feature. Well it looks like twitter people search has gone from temporarily disabled to permanently eliminated. Poof. Gone. I noticed the elimination of the people search feature Friday in the early morning and […]
Facebook Advertising Newsletter
2 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford November 21st, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Advertising.Facebook Advertising Newsletter: Facebook is taking a step in the right direction and helping to educate their advertisers with monthly newsletters. Marketing professionals that are new to facebook need some hand holding as this eco-system for ad units and social ads is anything but traditional. This Facebook Adverting newsletter is a step in the right […]
Consumer Twitter Survey
3 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford November 18th, 2008 in Research, social networks, twitter.We are all consumers online, so we need your help and input. We are in the process of gathering some accurate data about twitter usage & trends for some upcoming reports that we will be publishing. Please take 1 minute and click thru the 10 question survey. Your vote matters.
Please feel free to retweet […]
Napoleon Hill Knows the Secret to Twitter: Even Tho He is Dead
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford November 13th, 2008 in business, twitter.If you have studied the master of life and business success from the original pioneer in this field; Napoleon Hill, then this blog post will make sense to you instantly and you will understand what I mean immediately. Hill has written what is one of the best selling and still very popular business books of […]
Facebook Excel Reports for Advertisers
3 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford November 12th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Advertising, Facebook Marketing, business.Facebook Adds Exportable Excel Reports for Advertisers. In another baby step forward in their advertising offering facebook has just launched exportable Excel or CSV reports today.
Advertisers can now exports the associated report for the following 3 types of data:
1. Advertising performance
2. Responder Demographics
3. Responder Profiles
This data can be sliced by weekly, monthly or all […]
Facebook Fund Applications: Cast Your Vote Now
1 Comment Published by Rodney Rumford November 11th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Applications, Facebook acquisitions.Now that the election is over and you are coming down from that high, there is another election for you to participate in. Facebook is in the final stage of the fbFund competition.
Help facebook choose the top five teams with the best applications. Each will be awarded $225,000 in addition to the $25,000 they […]
Adknowledge Announces the Acquisition of Adonomics: Facebook App Analytics Company
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford November 3rd, 2008 in Facebook Applications.Adknowledge Announces the Acquisition of Adonomics: Adknowledge, a leading multi-channel advertising network, today announced the acquisition of Adonomics, a provider of Facebook analytics and developer services. This acquisition extends the position of Adknowledge as the largest social advertising network. Adknowledge has previously acquired Cubics.com.
As you may know we have covered adonomics since it’s inception and […]
Note to Employees: Don’t Criticize Your Employer On Facebook, You Might Get Fired
1 Comment Published by Rodney Rumford November 3rd, 2008 in Facebook, business. Virgin Atlantic recently fired 13 employees who were part of a Facebook group that criticized the airline and its passengers. The 13 employees supposedly spent most of their time on Facebook.
The staff members slammed the airline’s maintenance records on Facebook. They also criticized passenger hygiene. They called some passengers smelly and annoying. This is […]
RockYou Rocks 17 Million More in VC Money
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford November 3rd, 2008 in Facebook Applications, widgets.RockYou is one of the leading companies that creates and distributes widgets on the web and on social networks today announced an additional $17M in investments from Softbank, leading shareholder of Yahoo! Japan, and SK Telecom Ventures, the venture capital arm of SK Telecom. In June of 2008 RockYou announced an initial C Round investment […]
