UPDATED. Facebook’s new News Feed will begin a very slow rollout today. The biggest changes focus on much larger pictures, consistency across devices, and multiple new feeds. (And also bigger ads) More specifics: Each feed story type ( Photos, Videos, Links, Friends, Events) has a new, more rich layout in the feed. The news feed [...]
Join Cappy Popp, Co-Founder of Thought Labs, as he covers an overview of the platform (where we have been/where we are going), a detailed chat about the “Like” feature (and whether or not it has been successful), privacy changes, the long tail of Facebook and how social plugins impact you. The webinar begins at 2:00pm [...]
Mike Langford, fellow panelist and CEO of Tweetworks, has posted video of the panel discussion from the Girls in Tech Boston event held on May 6th, 2009 at Microsoft’s Cambridge Research Center. You can view the video here. Along with Mike, Cappy was joined by the following panelists: Rachel Happe, Co-Founder, Community Roundtable Karen Rubin, [...]
As part of the webinar on Taking Your Facebook Page to the Next Level, John Maver went through each change that Thought Labs made to the West Point Association of Graduates Facebook Public Profile to update it to use best practices. Look at the presentation on slideshare here.
Facebook is constantly tweaking their layout and feature set, with the increasing the sharing of relevant information among friends. Recently, Facebook changed a few things about Facebook Pages for brands to make them more viral and more authentic. First, Facebook has started adding popular Pages to the Suggestions for People You May Know. This is [...]
Facebook Pages have changed; they are now more like Facebook user profiles. So, how do you deal with their status messages? How do you get them from the API and what can go wrong?
Inside Facebook has the details about an upcoming update to Facebook’s Pages feature. This is great news for businesses, as the changes will put Pages on par with the recent user Profile changes. Most notably: Pages will now have the familiar Wall, Info, and Boxes tabs. This will help visitors quickly find the information they [...]
In a May 2008 study and October 2008 follow up, Rosetta found that 59% of the top 100 retailers have created branded Facebook Pages. This number is up from 30% in the May study. Companies are moving to Facebook because that is where their customers are. Facebook continues to grow extremely rapidly, with most of [...]
Facebook says they will soon be updating the developer application that allows you to manage your applications. It’s about time. It’s a mess at the moment. As long as they don’t break the application setup APIs this will be great. Check it out for yourself here.
Marketing Sherpa had an interesting post recently on Facebook Pages. I wanted to comment on it since I think though relevant and timely it missed some really relevant points that our clients face as soon as they decide to get a Facebook presence. One specifically: that they are ‘free’. Here’s the post: http://www.marketingsherpa.com/article.html?id=30590. As a [...]