On March 7th, Facebook announced the biggest change to its popular News Feed feature since its launch in 2006. In the big announcement, Mark Zuckerberg compared Facebook to a newspaper: “Our mission is to give everyone in the world the best personalized newspaper in the world,” Zuckerberg said. In response to recent claims that Facebook [...]
When it comes to looking for information online, the future of search has some definite trends for 2013. In part, this new change is working in tandem with the ever growing and changing technology market. As we’ve seen with the invention of smartphones and tablets, web users are becoming more and more reliant on the [...]
The world’s largest social network made waves on the ’Net yesterday with the launch of a new tool called Graph Search. The tool essentially allows people to discover information based on data that Facebook has collected from its users over time. For example, someone could use Graph Search to discover information such as “restaurants in [...]
Small Business Saturday is a day dedicated to supporting the local establishments that enrich communities all across the US. As a small business owner, you’re already well aware of the impact your business has on your town’s economic health. But how aware are your customers? Small Business Saturday helps to highlight the vital role of [...]
By: Chris Richards E-Commerce, or more specifically, Facebook commerce (F-Commerce), is a relatively new concept in the social media universe. Creating the ability to sell products directly to fans (now, customers) directly through Facebook is an opportunity on which few companies should pass. Though, posting items to a Facebook store alone will not guarantee a [...]
By: Chris Richards Social Commerce is Young, But Primed for Growth Introduced in 2007, the notion of social commerce, or an online storefront fueled by social networks, is still relatively new to the social media landscape. In fact, one would be hard pressed to find an average Facebook user who has completed a commercial transaction [...]
Google announced several algorithm changes this week which carry the potential to dramatically impact natural/organic search result listings. In one of the few instances when Google has offered any information about its algorithms, Google’s Matt Cutts outlined updates to the approaches used for showing and ranking search results. The updates specifically address snippets and page [...]
At the request of many fanpage toolkit subscribers, we have now built-in an auto-publishing feature that “no longer” requires users to manually install our integrated suite of facebook applications to facebook. Originally, fanpage toolkit subscribers had to click on an “Install fanpage toolkit fanpage/promotions/f-commerce app” link on the Finalize screen, after building their facebook page. [...]
For all those concerned by the “Connect with Facebook” authentication tool, which requests your permission to have access to your facebook profile data, please know that “fanpage toolkit does not access and use your facebook friend information for fanpage toolkit internal or 3rd-party use”. Quite the opposite all facebook profile data accessed, is only used [...]
Original Post By: Josh Constine - Via: Inside Facebook on August 23, 2011. Facebook recently added the ability to target advertisements by Topic, as detailed in its new Interests Targeting guide (.PDF). Rather than targeting users that Like a specific Page, advertisers can simultaneously target all users who Like any variation of a word or phrase. For example, [...]
