Alert Facebook Marketers

Facebook has recently implemented thorough guidelines to running promotions on the platform. Ultimately, marketers and brands must go through third-party applications to implement any promotion or viral growth strategy on Facebook.
Read the official guidelines here: http://www.facebook.com/promotions_guidelines.php

BING Integrating Facebook and Twitter Status Updates into Search Results

Today Bing plans to announce the incorporation of Facebook and Twitter status updates into the Bing search engine. This move by Bing to become a real-time search engine is definitely going to help the Microsoft owned company mark its territory amongst the vast landscape of search engines.
Details on the arrangements are supposedly going to be [...]

Facebook Lite and @ Tagging

Today Facebook has widely released Facebook Lite. The new version of Facebook was released in beta throughout August, but as of today is available in the U.S and India. Facebook Lite is a simplified front-end version of Facebook that is optimized for slower internet connections. Essentially it is Facebook on a diet plan, losing all [...]

Focusing on the Basics of Social Media

Nailing down a solid foundation for a social media campaign still comes as the most important element of a social media strategy. Before building apps., micro-sites, widgets or otherwise the communication channels between brand and consumers must be free flowing and continuous. Social media continues to evolve at an exponential rate as new programs, features [...]

A Marketing Miracle? Facebook’s New Publisher Controls in Beta

Thanks to the pressure put on Facebook by the advances of Twitter we the people are receiving a better service. Twitter reigns as the thought sharing, micro-blogging mecca, where Facebook provides the end-all be-all network, aggregating all of ones personal sharing and media. Twitter’s success comes about through its simplistic model of sharing and communicating, [...]

Vanity URLs Offered on Facebook

Around 1:00pm today facebook announced that they will be offering users the ability to select vanity
URLs for their profiles and pages they administer. If you are unfamiliar, an example of a vanity URL is http://facebook.com/edieter, rather than the current long tail URLs that everyone possesses; http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/profile.php?id=10213726&ref=profile. There is significance behind this announcement seeing that the [...]