Archive for the 'Facebook Trends' Category
On the Zuckerberg Keynote
0 Comments Published by Blake Robinson March 9th, 2008 in Facebook acquisitions, Facebook Advertising, Facebook Applications, facebook Business, Facebook f8 platform, Facebook Groups, Facebook News, Facebook Pages, Facebook Trends.So I originally wrote this for elsewhere. I am at the SXSW event. Everyone has covered it since and the previous outlet has decided not to run with it, so here is my take on the Zuckerberg keynote at its most controversial and unedited: Mark Zuckerberg is rich, Facebook is about communication and Business Week [...]
Social Networks Still Growing
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford March 8th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Trends, MySpace.Social Networks Still Growing: According to web analytics company Compete; It would appear that social networks continued to grow steadily for the past year. This would indicate that the marketplace still has substantial growth legs. It is also worthy to note that there are new social networks such as twitter that experienced serious growth percentages [...]
Social Network Engagement Metrics
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford February 25th, 2008 in Branding, Facebook Trends.Social Network Engagement Metrics: I was thinking for the past few weeks about how to best measure effectiveness of engagement for brands on facebook. I struggle with the exact metrics that can measure the true value of what occurs between friends in the social graph when a brand is in the middle (or on the [...]
Facebook looking to buy Plaxo? Unlikely
4 Comments Published by Blake Robinson January 15th, 2008 in Facebook, facebook Business, Facebook Marketing, Facebook News, Facebook Trends.Venture Beat’s Eric Eldon has run a piece in which “a source” claims that Facebook is “one hundred percent buying Plaxo.” For the hasty, the affirmation of Eldon’s unnamed source would seem to give credence to Valleywag’s recent mongering of the same rumor. While Plaxo is definitely on the market, Facebook almost certainly isn’t the [...]
Facebook application invitation overload
8 Comments Published by Blake Robinson January 8th, 2008 in Facebook, Facebook Applications, Facebook Trends.Has anyone else experienced the persistent nuisance of application invites? In theory, rejecting an invitation should opt you out of further invites from that particular app. While that works some of the time, Facebook fails to block a large percentage of app invitations that have already been rejected. The biggest example of this are the [...]
Scrabulous wins Facebook followers
6 Comments Published by Blake Robinson January 7th, 2008 in Facebook Applications, Facebook Fun, Facebook Trends.Scrabulous Rating: I’ve mainly resisted Facebook gaming applications due to their capacities for creating enormous sinkholes of time. As I was recently stricken with the flu, however, I found myself desperate for the time wasters that I avoid while in possession of better health. The clear choice was Scrabulous, a Scrabble-esque gaming site that was [...]
Facebook Detox
0 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford August 20th, 2007 in Facebook, Facebook Applications, Facebook Trends.As many of you know I was away on a 7-day trip out of the country and had no wireless or Internet access. This forced me to try and detoxify from my facebook application addiction. Well, like most Hollywood detox & rehab programs, it just did not work. I found myself wanting to use facebook [...]
Appsaholic is a must have facebook application
12 Comments Published by Michael Vu August 10th, 2007 in Facebook Applications, Facebook f8 platform, Facebook Review, Facebook Software, Facebook Trends.Rating: One of my favorite Facebook applications is Appsaholic simply because it gives me a much needed perspective on the application ecosystem. Powered by the same people behind Socialmedia.com, a network of applications across leading social networks, Appsaholic provides a powerful suite of tools to analyze the usage and adoption of Facebook applications. Key Analytic [...]
Facebook is the New Multi-Media Business Communication Tool
5 Comments Published by Rodney Rumford August 8th, 2007 in Facebook, Facebook Applications, Facebook Trends, Facebook Video.Facebook has many use cases. One use case that I happen to like is using it as a new media rolodex, listening device and broadcast tower for my business contacts. I now get to know more about my business contacts. I can see info such as: their email, website, things that they like, applications that [...]
The War and Art of The Wall
19 Comments Published by Michael Vu July 31st, 2007 in Facebook Applications, Facebook Review, Facebook Trends.There are currently three main applications that focus on enhancing a Facebook user’s wall: Super Wall, Advanced Wall, and FunWall. Of the three, Super Wall of RockYou, currently is in the lead with about 3.06 million users. Second is FunWall, by Slide Inc., with 2.1 million users, and then there’s Advanced Wall with about 1.2 [...]
