With more than 900 million users, Facebook has a tough job keeping track of all the links, images, videos, etc. that are posted on the social network so they also rely on users to be vigilant in reporting anything that is offensive, spam, suspicious, crime-relate or other stuff that violates Facebook’s Community Standards and TOS. [...]
Continue reading...22. June 2012 ·
Are you an active social media user and belong to one or several social networks? Did you know that there are different types of social media personas? Aimia, a global leader in loyalty management recently conducted a survey among Internet users based on two behavioral drivers – Trust & Control and came up with 6 [...]
Continue reading...8. June 2012 ·
Popular location-based social network foursquare yesterday announced and released a completely revamped version of their mobile app – foursquare version 5.0. From the official Foursquare blog: We founded foursquare with a pretty lofty goal: to help people make the most of where they are. It’s a hard problem to solve, and, after three years of [...]
Continue reading...12. April 2012 ·
So Google+ just rolled out a major design facelift yesterday. I knew about the update but didn’t bother to check it out until I got intrigued after reading posts about users not liking the new design, the Facebook Timelinesque cover/profile photo and the now popular “whitespace“. When I logged in, I was expecting to see [...]
Continue reading...10. April 2012 ·
So the biggest news yesterday and probably for the next couple of days was how Facebook bought Instagram for a whopping $1 Billion. This by far is the most expensive acquisition Facebook has ever made (Drop.io $10 million, ConnectU $31 million, FriendFeed $47.5 million, Snaptu $70 million). Why would Facebook buy a photo-sharing service like [...]
Continue reading...15. March 2012 ·
About two weeks ago, my friend Nick Oba invited me to check out his new startup, a social networking site called Zurker. It works like any regular social network where users can post status updates and wall posts, notes, share web links and photos, connect with other users who share the same interests, etc. What [...]
Continue reading...22. July 2011 ·
By now many if not most of your are already using Google+ or have heard about it some way or another. In case you haven’t because you went away on a trip to a remote jungle area in South America, got marooned on an island in the Pacific or didn’t use the Internet the last [...]
Continue reading...12. July 2011 ·
By now most of you are either on or have heard about the newest social network – Google+. I got into Google+ a couple days after it was launched thanks to an unsolicited invite sent by my friend Holly. So far, I’m loving it and have been spending more time on Google+ than on Facebook [...]
Continue reading...1. July 2011 ·
With more than 500 million users spending over 700 billion minutes per month, Facebook is the top dog in terms of Internet traffic. Facebook users share about 30 billion pieces of content each month which comprises of web links, news stories, and photos or photo albums. Last year, I shared with you an infographic on [...]
Continue reading...2. June 2011 ·
Have you heard about Google +1? Google first revealed this new feature – recommendations for search results last March. Plus One or +1 is kinda like Google’s own version of the Facebook Like button but specifically for Google Search results. Earlier today, Google has announced that the Google +1 button is now available to use [...]
Continue reading...9. May 2011 ·
Are you an avid Twitter user? Whether you use it for work, personal use or both, have you ever imagined what your life would’ve been without the popular social networking tool? Even though not everyone uses Twitter, it is already a part of our everyday life and our culture. Twitter is now being used by [...]
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22. June 2012 ·
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