“Facebook messaged the 4,600 fans of the FacebookPages Page with helpful hints on how to make your presence on Facebook go viral (by messaging all of your fans, for example). A key piece of advice? Use Facebook Ads: Many businesses, from leading global brands to favorite local bands, are enjoying tremendous impact using Facebook Pages for [...]”
via TechCrunch
Archive for April, 2008
Facebook Publishes “Insider’s Guide To Viral Marketing”
Friday, April 25th, 2008Create Your Own YouTube, Pray You Can Make Money
Friday, April 25th, 2008“YouTube sold for $1.6 billion. How much will you sell yours for? That’ s the over-optimistic hook being used by StartYourTube to entice people into setting up branded video sharing sites on its white label platform. StartYourTube does exactly what the name implies. You can go onto the site, create your own tube , customize it with colors and [...]”
via TechCrunch
The New Yahoo: Sticky, Viral, And Most Of All, Friendly
Friday, April 25th, 2008“Yahoo’ s CTO Ari Balogh and Chief Architect (Platforms) Neal Sample filled in a few more details today around their new Yahoo Open Strategy (called YOS internally). Background Yahoo wants to turn itself into one big social network-driven site, and simultaneously open many of its core services to get users and developers thinking of Yahoo as their [...]”
via TechCrunch
Is Keyword Search About To Hit Its Breaking Point?
Friday, April 25th, 2008“As the Web swells with more and more data, the predominant way of sifting through all of that data—keyword search—will one day break down in its ability to deliver the exact information we want at our fingertips. In fact, some argue that keyword search is already delivering diminishing returns—as the slide above by Nova [...]”
via TechCrunch
Dating Toolbox: 120+ Sites For Singles To Find Love
Friday, April 25th, 2008“You can do just about anything online anymore, and finding true love isn’ t any different. Sure, you can hit some of the general sites, but why not go further? Find a vegetarian, a goth kid, heck, even farmers need love! We’ ve rounded up over 120 of the dating sites out there on [...]”
via Mashable!
RSS Needs An Easy Button
Friday, April 25th, 2008“Yesterday, Microsoft Live News Search added RSS feeds site-wide. This means you can now subscribe to a specific category, such as Business, or subscribe to a specific search term, such as “Mark Zuckerberg.” Thus, whenever a new story in the Business category or a new story mentioning Facebook’s CEO hits Live News, you [...]”
via Mashable!
You’re right!
Friday, April 25th, 2008“You probably get feedback from customers. Sometimes you even get letters. Occasionally (unfortunately), it’s negative. Two weeks ago, I left my car at (an expensive) parking garage in midtown New York. When I got back four hours later, I discovered…”
via Seth’s Blog
Quick Fix For Twitter Troubles
Thursday, April 24th, 2008“Have you, like so many other users, experienced problems with Twitter in the last couple of days? Not getting updates from all the people you’ re following, but only a handful? The problem seems to be lying with Twitter cache. Here’ s a quick fix for the problem. Simply find some person you’ re not already following, follow [...]”
via Mashable!
Facebook Chat Now Works For Everyone
Thursday, April 24th, 2008“I’ m not an avid Facebook user, but I have been checking it every now and then for the promised chat application, and as of today it seems to finally be available for everyone. And, although I have certain reservations about yet another web based chat application, I must say I love it. The chat is [...]”
via Mashable!
Chinese Hackers Take Down SportsNetwork
Thursday, April 24th, 2008“The SportsNetwork, a privately held sports website located in Hatboro, PA, has been under attack from hackers for about 24 hours. Early Sunday the site was defaced with Tibet was, is and will always be part of China messages. Engineers returned the site to normal, but late Sunday evening the site was again hacked and [...]”
via TechCrunch