Facebook take a big leap forward…
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At the F8 conference yesterday Facebook announced some major changes to the Facebook platform which were the biggest changes we have seen for a long time. Facebook now have over 800 million users with over 500 million of them recently using Facebook in one day which was another milestone for Facebook. One of the major [...]
Facebook on the move…
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Facebook are making significant changes to user functionality at the moment in particular around the area of your newsfeed and status updates. That’s the great thing about a bit of competition. Google + was released recently and will be rolling out new functionality rapidly. Facebook needs to ensure that it stays ahead of Google …
Using Facebook as a page…
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A few months ago Facebook implemented functionality which allows you to use facebook as a business page instead of using it as an individual. Companies wanted to be able to interact with other brands and people as a business instead of using their personal profile. At the moment this functionality is under used and is [...]
Facebook Platform Presentation from Charles Dowd at Blogtalk
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I watched a very interesting presentation from Charles Dowd (Head of Platform development in Facebook) at Blog Talk a recent conference in Galway. If you look at the presentation you’ll see how powerful Facebook currently is and how this will continue to grow in importance. Facebook is no longer just going to be www.facebook.com, Facebook [...]
Do you like the Dublin Web Summit?
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The Dublin Web Summit has their third event coming up in June and based on the previous two events it’s going to be very interesting. My business partner Bill Liao (Co-Founder of the business networking site Xing) is speaking at it and he’s a very interesting speaker (he’ll be doing a couple of blog posts [...]
Facebook – Here to stay…
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[singlepic id=36 w=308 h=201 mode=web20 float=right] Last week I went to the official opening of the Facebook offices in Hanover quay. As usual I couldn’t find the office. I was glad to bump into a journalist from the Irish Independent who also had a similar problem so at least I wasn’t on my own. Despite [...]
Twitter integration with your Facebook business page
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This article shows you how to set up twitter as a feed within your facebook business page so users will see your latest tweets without having to go directly to twitter. 1). Save the RSS Feed Go to search.twitter.com and click on the advanced button. In this section in the ‘From’ field put in the [...]
Facebook Digital Criminals
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In a recent survey commissioned by Legal and General, it was found out of 2,000 social media users that 38% of them shared their holiday plans on Facebook and Twitter and over 1/3 of people post details so say when they are going away. The report goes on to discuss how burgulars are using social [...]