Posts About ‘Facebook’

Worlds upside down: Google and Facebook taking France to court in privacy issue

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Ask anybody on the web which companies scare them the most when it comes to privacy matters. In nine out of ten cases there are two names mentioned: Google and Facebook. After all, they are the companies that gather and hold the most information from its users.

Both companies also get taken to court once every few months by a country or some sort of commission. That can be for antitrust issues, but also for privacy matters, think Streetview in for example Germany. Google and Facebook however have now turned things around: they are suing France over privacy matters. (more…)

Google +1: the pieces of the social puzzle are coming together

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With the official launch of “+1″ yesterday Google took yet another step towards getting all the pieces of their social puzzle together. After failures with social experiments like Orkut and Buzz Google now has decided it will be adding social features to their search results, so called ‘social layers‘, which eventually will turn out to be Google’s new approach to social.

The +1 button they launched yesterday doesn’t seem to be that new. After all, we have all seen the “stars” in search wiki and the mentions of social sharing on sites like Twitter. But the +1 button does do a little bit more than just that. It is sharing to your own network and it is connected to your Google Profile which seems the be the center of attention when it comes to Google’s social efforts. I’d like to look at some obvious questions with maybe some not so obvious answers. (more…)

SES New York 2011: Killer Facebook Targeting Tactics

Next session today is the Facebook Marketing Tactics session. Let’s see if the experts on the panel really share some “killer tactics for harnessing the real marketing and ecommerce potential of Facebook Advertising, Fan Pages and Groups”. In the panel we got Marty Weintraub of aimClear, Harry J. Gold of Overdirve Interactive and Lisy Buyer of The Buyer Group.

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Facebook top UK Social Media site: over 30 million UK users

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More than half of UK residents are on Facebook. With over 62 million people living in the UK and over 30 million people on Facebook, it makes “being on Facebook” on of the main online activities in the UK.

According to Joanna Shields, Vice President & Managing Director, EMEA for Facebook, the social networking site has grown with over 4 million users in the UK since September 2010. With that they surpass the 30 million users. She said this at the Financial Times Digital Media and Broadcasting Conference which was held in London on March two and three. (more…)

Why Bing will be trailing on Google and why it should hook up with Apple and Facebook

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Bing is doing well, at least, in the US it is. The latest numbers by Comscore show us that Bing increased its share of searches by 1.1 percentage points last month and Statcounter noted that Bing had outgrown Yahoo, but was still trailing on Google.

Bing is not sitting still either, with their expansion to France and new additions to their search results like flight auto suggest and more personalized search options with the extension of the like-data in their search results.

So Bing is doing well, I personally also want them doing well, because I believe we could (especially in Europe) use some more competitiveness. Still, I fear that Bing will be trailing on Google for quite a while and might never even ‘catch’ them. Why? The reason lies in the combination of mobile and personal. Let me explain.

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Facebook is going to relaunch giving away phone and addresses

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It is what seems to be a typical Facebook move. Halfway through January Facebook announced it would be “making a user’s address and mobile phone number accessible as part of the User Graph object”. Which meant no less than “we are giving away your phone numbers and addresses”.

The enormous amount of criticism around the world Facebook pulled back the option just one day later. They didn’t say they would not be doing it all, they just postponed it. And Facebook will do shortly what it has always done in situations like this. It will bring back a slightly adjusted feature. A letter to Congressmen Markey and Barton suggests that. (more…)

More Social Elements in Google Search: Twitter not Facebook is the direction

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Google is taking it step by step, a very different way than we are used to in this digital era, but slowly but surely Google’s social face is becoming more visible. The latest additions to the Google search results are yet again another signal of Google’s social efforts.

Googles Social Search has been around for a while now (since 2009) but is only showing a small amount of social elements. Social results coming from tools like Twitter for example, were until now not a very big part of the search result. Google now has started to mix social results, from for example Twitter or blogs, with other results. (more…)

Get your comments, by Facebook: Social Network preparing commenting system

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Facebook has big plans. The Social Network is slowly but surely moving away from ‘just’ being a Social Network into becoming a controller of the web. It looks remarkably like the path Google has taken: each time make more services which are available outside of your territory.

Now Cnet reports that Facebook is planning to launch a new service which will not be running on the Social Network itself, but as a third party service. In a few weeks it is said that Facebook will be launching a third-party commenting system. This system would allow blogs to be using Facebook’s commenting system on their website. (more…)

Update: Facebook postpones sharing of phone numbers and addresses

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Yesterday I wrote about a new ‘feature’ in Facebook which meant that third party developers would now be able to easily pick up phone numbers and addresses from Facebook. To be honest, I wasn’t the only one writing about it.

Just shortly after their announcement on the subject last Friday Facebook now pulls back. The feature will be changed and until then the feature is “on hold”. It looks like Facebook listened to the criticism. (more…)

State of Search radioshow – episode 39: Bubble coming up, 2010 and and the future

For the first show in the New Year Bas and Roy were joined by State of Search blogger Barry Adams.

In the show they first discussed the investment Goldman Sachs is supposedly doing in Facebook and if that means there is another Internet Bubble coming up. They also looked back at the important changes in 2010 and looked forward to 2011 where links, the FCC and more local where talked about together with a hugely filled chatroom.

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Want Social Media Traffic? Facebook best in Europe but loses to Stumbleupon in the US

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When you talk Social Media most people immediately refer to two options: Facebook and Twitter. So when a company decides it wants to go and implement Social Media on its website, they right away put up the Tweet and Like or Share buttons. But the question is, what drives the most traffic and what drives the most conversion?

When it comes to driving traffic in the US there is a for some surprising winner to this ‘contest’: not Facebook or Twitter, but Stumbleupon is the biggest social traffic driver in the US. That is what numbers over 2010 from Statcounter show us. StumbleUpon accounted for about 43%, while Facebook accounted for about 38%. Twitter was only good for 5%, a little bit less than YouTube (7%) and a little bit more than Reddit (4%). (more…)

Facebook $50 Billion Valuation Means No IPO Anytime Soon

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For the second year running “Facebook” was the number one search term on the web. In 2010, a movie “The Social Network” was released, documenting the origins and rise to international domination (save for parts of Asia) of Facebook, as the social network of choice. Late Sunday night the New York Times’ DealB%k , broke a story about Goldman Sachs offering their clients the chance to invest in Facebook, in a deal that values the company at $50 Billion.

According to the DealB%k article… “the email sent to Goldman clients warns recipients who trade in secondary markets where private firms like Facebook trade may want to steer clear of participating because if they opt-in they may receive material non-public information on the unnamed company that will restrict future trading.”

Essentially, private investment in a non-public company gives the investor access to company information, and secondary market information that would exclude the investor from trading in the company are they to go public. Whilst Goldman decline to comment, DealB%k reference a source stating that investors “would be prohibited from selling their shares until 2013”. (more…)

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