By Jeff on March 11, 2010
We are opening registration today for f8, Facebook’s conference where developers and entrepreneurs collaborate on the future of personalized and social technologies.
We hope you will join us on April 21st, 2010, at the Concourse at San Francisco Design Center for a day of learning about the latest [...]
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By Jeff on March 11, 2010
With the impending launch of the Apple iPad, the Cupertino-based company’s shunning of Adobe Flash technology has been brought to the forefront of technological discussions. While it was one thing to forgo Flash on a small, mobile device such as the iPhone or iPod Touch, some are questioning whether lack of Flash support is going [...]
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By Jeff on March 11, 2010
Two years ago customer support startup Get Satisfaction turned its ear to Twitter to help its clients monitor Twitter for mentions of brands. Get Satisfaction makes a network of customer support forums where customers can post their own questions, ideas, problems, or conversations about a product. Companies can also claim their board and [...]
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By Jeff on March 11, 2010
The biggest challenge to Cable News Network is not other 24-hour television news stations but social networks like Facebook and Twitter, the president of CNN US said Wednesday.
“The competition I’m really afraid of are social networking sites,” Jon Klein said at the Bloomberg BusinessWeek 2010 Media Summit here. “That’s an alternative that threatens to pull [...]
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By Jeff on March 11, 2010
Yesterday, MySpace announced a revamped games homepage, available at www.myspace.com/games, which helps users discover and share games virally. The new Games section also improves application engagement and analytics tools for game developers. In addition, MySpace introduced the “MySpace Neon iPhone” application that gives users access to their MySpace games on the iPhone.
According to MySpace, “nearly [...]
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By Jeff on March 10, 2010
Hi5, a social network that changed its focus to gaming relatively recently, announced Tuesday that it’s built some code so that Facebook application developers can transport their creations to Hi5’s platform with minimal effort. It’s specifically targeting game developers, so that some of the smash-hit games built on Facebook can now wind up [...]
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By Jeff on March 10, 2010
Four in five adults believe access to the Internet is a fundamental right — with those feelings particularly strong in South Korea and China — and half believe it should never be regulated, according to a global survey.
A poll of 27,000 adults in 26 countries for the BBC World Service showed 78 percent [...]
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By Jeff on March 10, 2010
The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand. You don’t have to be a data expert to navigate between different views, make your own comparisons, and share [...]
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By Jeff on March 10, 2010
SAN FRANCISCO–For game developers whose industry experience predates not just Facebook but even Mark Zuckerberg, you might expect that abandoning making big, complex games for simple titles like Farmville and similar social projects would be anathema.
But to hear a panel of respected industry veterans who spoke before a packed house in a huge room at [...]
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By Jeff on February 2, 2010
The Truth About Social Media
Over the next five years social media marketing is projected to grow at an annual rate of 34%, according to Forrester Research. Social networks have also proven to be an effective way to gauge – and achieve – Internet marketing success, offering unlimited opportunities for feedback, promotion, brand-building and monetization.
“If you [...]
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