Monthly Archives: August 2010

Social Games Reach Nearly 60 million U.S. Users

Ever played Words with Friends on your iPhone, helped harvest a friend’s crops on FarmVille or put your sports predicting expertise to the test on ESPN’s Streak for the Cash? If so, you are part of the 20 percent of U.S. consumers that have participated …

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Check-in data from Facebook Places: A Marketer’s Guide

On Wednesday, August 18, 2010, Facebook launched Places, a location based service that enhances current sharing capabilities (like wall comments, videos, notes, etc.) by allowing user to broadcast their whereabouts to their Facebook friends. The idea behind Places is that Places will simplify and encourage …

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Three Types of Video Networking Sites

Sharing information is at the heart of social media. Today’s social networking sites harness the power of word-of-mouth and digitize it online. News, music, photos, videos, and more disperse throughout today’s social sphere as people discover and share their Internet finds. Videos have risen as …

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Facebook launches location-based product, Places

Facebook has finally launched their long-awaited location-based product, called Places. With this new product, you will now have the option to share your location by “checking in” to that place and letting friends know where you are. You can also see if any of your …

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Two Facebook Page Design Changes Admins Need to Know

Facebook page owners need to be aware of some impending changes to their pages over the course of the next two weeks. In an attempt to optimize new profile and Facebook page formats, Facebook has decided to make a couple of tweaks to the layout of …

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