By Jeff on September 3, 2010
I know this is old news, but how many out there are really using this? What I am talking about is the Facebook url shortener “fb.me”.
Instead of typing:
http://www.facebook.com/concerts
or
http://www.facebook.com/byp
Simply use the fb.me shortener to access your pages:
http://fb.me/concerts
or
http://fb.me/byp
The shorter the URL the easier it is to remember.
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By Jeff on September 3, 2010
I feel like all I’ve written about the past few weeks is Facebook’s need for a new social dynamic. Specifically, I want Facebook to break their social graph into two: those people who you are friends with, and those who you follow — for sharing purposes. It seems that Facebook may be testing something like that [...]
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By Jeff on September 3, 2010
It’s not as mysterious as it seems, this mini-controversy about finding friends on Facebook for Apple’s new social music network.
According to sources familiar with Facebook’s platform, the social networking giant essentially denied Apple’s Ping access to application programming interfaces that would allow it to search for an iTunes user’s friends on Facebook who also had [...]
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By Jeff on September 3, 2010
Photo by Kristin Hoebermann
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If you’re a singer, you should be following Claudia Friedlander’s blog. The classically-trained, New York-based voice teacher provides sage advice not only for singers for all types, but also for musicians and people in general.
Although at least one of her students sings metal, Friedlander knows virtually nothing about it. [...]
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By Jeff on September 2, 2010
Twitter’s Japanese arm may well be on its way to turning a profit next year the old-fashioned way: through ad sales.
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A screen shot of the Twitter profile page of Renho, the minister for administrative reform and avid Twitter user, showing a Panasonic ad in the upper right hand corner.
Digital Garage Inc., the Tokyo-based technology [...]
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By Jeff on September 2, 2010
Over two in five surveyed Facebook users (43%) say they “like,” or are fans of, at least one brand on Facebook. Among them, 40% say they like brands to receive discounts and promotions, whereas 39% say they do so to publicly display their brand affiliations to others. By contrast, 23% of consumers who follow brands [...]
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By Jeff on September 2, 2010
Even Apple, which lives in a bubble of its own device-centered success, can’t resist the lure of social networking. Today, CEO Steve Jobs formally thrust the company into the social-media fray with an iTunes-based network, Ping.
Apple’s new music-focused social network Ping will have familiar elements such as friends, photos and privacy [...]
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By Jeff on September 2, 2010
A little over five years ago, YouTube ushered in a new genre of video advertising, one that succeeded on its ability to rise above a world of pet tricks and backyard stunts, to entertain and to be passed around. Call them “viral” videos, super-sized TV ads, branded videos or just plain commercials, a few of [...]
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By Jeff on September 2, 2010
Brands can turn customers into repeat customers by analyzing simple brand attributes that cause customer-base leaks and creating solutions that can be implemented on a day-to-day basis. For example, in a world where service will make or break customer loyalty, Chick-fil-A has instantaneously (and quite inexpensively) solved a source of customer-base leaks by simply using [...]
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By Jeff on September 2, 2010
After a six-month tryout in Australia and New Zealand, Google is bringing sponsored map icons to the U.S., allowing companies to pay for their logos to show up directly on Google maps, indicating the location of their business.
A Google map showing the location of an HSBC branch with the bank’s logo [...]
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