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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, [...]

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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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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.

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Facebook today announced Quick Transitions, an Ajax-backed technology for enabling faster canvas page loads in Facebook Applications. Does it work? Not at the moment.

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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 [...]

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Dealing with negative comments on Twitter or your blog is an effective skill that can help turn detractors into advocates.

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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