A blog about Social Media by John Maver and Cappy Popp
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Cappy Popp was recently quoted in an article in PC World titled “What Is Your Facebook Data Worth?” by Narasu Rebbapragada. Cappy talked about the massive amount of information that users willingly supply to Facebook in their profiles. The article goes on to talk about the newest privacy issues and hacks. You can read the [...]
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Last week, Jaime Tedford and I talked about the Facebook Open Graph and how businesses could benefit from it. It was well attended, with lots of great questions from the audience. Here are the slides we used:
Facebook Open Graph 6.10.10
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John Maver will be presenting, along with Jaime Tedford of Brand Networks on the recent Facebook Open Graph announcement and how businesses can take advantage of it.
The event will be held on June 10th at Northeastern University, starting at 8:30 am.
Facebook has yet again changed the game with theannouncement of the next version of the Facebook [...]
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Today, I was part of a panel discussion on Facebook Connect . Here is a quick summary and key points:
Panelists
1. (Moderator) John J. Maver, Jr. – Co-Founder and Principal at Thought Labs
2. Dan Abdinoor – Developer, Hubspot;
3. Leah Busque – Founder, RunMyErrand Inc;
4. Meagan Ellis – PR Account Manger, Kel & Partners;
5. Justin Levy – [...]
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Our book, Essential Facebook Development, is now available.
The synopsis:
With more than 300 million active users, Facebook is the world’s #1 social networking platform. But developing successful Facebook applications presents unique challenges, both technical and nontechnical. Now, two of the world’s most experienced Facebook developers show you exactly how to meet those challenges. Essential Facebook Development [...]
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The Other Side Group recently wrote a blog post about Keeping Social Media Social. She said that people can get to a state with social media where they subscribe to a large number of people, but filter out everyone but a select few to compensate for the information overload. Participation with the masses goes down, [...]
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Our publisher, Addison-Wesley Professional, has graciously published ‘Rough Cuts’ - that means they still need final edits – of the first five chapters of our upcoming book, Facebook Development: A Complete Guide to Smart Application Development for the Facebook Platform, on InformIT’s Safari Books Online. Rough Cuts allow readers to get access to the book [...]
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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, Product Owner, HubSpot and [...]
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Thought Labs’s Cappy Popp will be speaking on a panel titled, “Linked in – How to Increase Sales“ on Thursday, June 18, 2009 from 11:45A – 1:30P at the Clark University Graduate Management Center in Framingham, MA. This should be an interesting event; it will undoubtedly be covering a much broader range of topics related to [...]
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As marketing is moving away from traditional one-way business to consumer methods, and taking on two-way interactive approaches, businesses need a measure for performance. Facebook is arguably the forerunner of the social media platforms, so it’s only natural for them to develop a sophisticated tool that will adapt to the increased usage of Facebook for [...]
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