A blog about Social Media by John Maver and Cappy Popp
Thought Labs has finished creating a a branded Facebook Page for Winter, Wyman, one of the largest staffing companies in the Northeast. The Page offers visitors news of upcoming events, links to job offerings, and an interactive application called Ask a Career Expert that answers a user-submitted question each week.
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Facebook reported yesterday that they are new Events API calls that will “…allow applications to create, modify, and cancel events, as well as submit a user’s RSVP to any event that the application created. With an active session and the appropriate extended permissions, your application can manage your users’ schedules for any events created through [...]
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Techcrunch is reporting that sometime tonight Facebook will be offering users more filters for their newsfeed. It remains to be seen how this will affect viral channels. Currently there are only a few filters available so this will open it up some. It may also make it more difficult for applications.
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On June 28, 2008 Cappy Popp spoke at the Social Media Business School event in New York City hosted by socialmedia.com. He discussed marketing Facebook applications effectively and gave insights into the complex and ever-changing ecosystem of Facebook. Eddie Smith, VP of Marketing and Business Development for socialmedia.com, had this to say: “Cappy did a [...]
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Here are my slides from my presentation this morning at GSP East. Please let me know if you have any questions. You can also get them on slideshare here.
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John Maver and Cappy Popp will be presenting at the GSP East Intro To Facebook and Bebo Applications workshop at 9:00 on Monday, June 9th in Washington, DC. Stop by and say hi, if you are there. http://en.oreilly.com/gspeast2008/public/schedule/detail/3272
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As one of the first examples of what is possible with the new Hook Mobile API , Thought Labs has released Pic2Phone. Users can now receive their friend’s latest photos and comments delivered as a daily MMS sent right to their phone. According to this article at MobHappy, with applications like this that incorporate the [...]
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A Case Study on building a Facebook page for Fitness Together Middleton.
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