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How To Avoid Facebook Marketing Mistakes

We all are aware of power of social networking media and among all of them Facebook has its own place. With more than 500 million users Facebook holds a strong share of the social media group and as far as social media marketing is concerned, Facebook marketing has set the trends. We cant deny the marketing power of Facebook but only a few small business owners, actually know how to do so effectively. Enterpreneurs should make out maximum advantage to their businesses out of this free online marketing resource- Facebook Marketing. Lets check out how to avoid common Facebook marketing mistakes. – Have a clear marketing purpose. Whether you’ve created a page for Facebook, now

FACEBOOK VS GOOGLE+ WRESTLEMANIA

FACEBOOK VS GOOGLE+ WRESTLEMANIA

The war has been declared between the giant Google and the social media titan Facebook. Nowadays it is the most discussed topic everywhere on internet. It’s pretty obvious that Google+ is a threat to Facebook’s ever-growing base of users. The giant Google is no longer afraid to take the battle into titan Facebook’s territory. Jokes apart, last month Google launched its new weapon- Google plus against all the social media giants. The invites started to flow but were soon stopped when Google got overwhelmed with the demand. The notable features included Circles, where you could add friends and the huddle where many friends could video chat together. Google hit the gallery with more privacy options

Sony Downs Facebook Games & Other Multiplayer Games

It is being reported from Foster City of California that adding to the now nearly two-week-long downing of its PlayStation Network online game service and Qriocity media streaming services, Sony (NYSE: SNE) has now additionally taken down the Facebook games and massively multiplayer titles operated by its Sony Online Entertainment unit. Sony Company has reportedly mentioned in a note on the company’s official website that “We have had to take the SOE service down temporarily. In the course of our investigation into the intrusion into our systems we have discovered an issue that warrants enough concern for us to take the service down effective immediately.” Sony said a malicious intrusion into its network two weeks

Facebook: Social Media & Social E-Commerce

All of you must be having a facebook profile and the fact is not new for any facebook user that you get influenced by your facebook friends’ to do updates, you also  feel like to attend the same event that they’re likely to go too. The point is, perhaps, is how much more likely. Facebook correspondents reported on this Wednesday that every time a user posted on their news feed that they bought a ticket from a site or a place say TicketMaster, the friends from their facebook list spent an additional $5.30 on TicketMaster most likely for the same event. Also at Eventbrite which is a social site for selling tickets to lesser known

Facebook To Take Over Snaptu

Facebook is going to make new plunge in mobile platform to extend its spectrum. One of the popular social network has finally confirmed that Facebook is acquiring Israeli mobile app start up Snaptu. Snaptu develops smartphone-like mobile applications for the masses that do not have high end handsets. As part of the deal, Facebook will pay Snaptu about $60-$70 million and Snaptu would be working as part of Facebook team. Snaptu was founded in 2007 and it develops applications for the feature phones. These feature phones are not smartphones but possess mobile Internet connectivity and allow installation of Java ME or BREW based apps. Facebook, along with Snaptu, had launched the new Facebook App for

Facebook Douses Virtualization, Looks At Intel MicroServers

“Facebook is bucking the trend toward server virtualization and is interested in microservers for inexpensive growth and quick failover”, the company’s lab director said on 15th March. Facebook is here to support Intel’s plans for an expanded lineup of processors for microservers, as Gio Coglitore, director of Facebook labs, spoke at an Intel press briefing in San Francisco. There Intel said it would commence four new chips for microservers this year and in 2012, ranging from a 45-watt Xeon to an Atom-based processor with less than 10 watts of power consumption. All of them will be having server-class features, such as 64-bit compatibility and ECC (Error-Correcting Code) memory. Facebook has tested microservers in production and

Is Facebook a threat to mobile operators

We all are aware of the most revolutionary social networking media of the decade. Yes I am talking about the Facebook. Daily we got to know & use some new features or apps on facebook. Many social networking sites are there but the popularity of facebook is unbeatable. Facebook is significantly a strong competitor to mobile operators. According to a research by a technology research company Ovum, mobile operators are in danger of underestimating the threat they pose. As per their new report, Ovum had defined that Facebook is “much more than a social network.” “This is just a starting point and its domain spreads much wider. However, operators are being slow to wake up

Game Times Are From Face Book

Young gamers who have traveled to a virtual Oregon Trail or Carmen Sandiego are difficult to hunt for their desktop computers can continue their adventures in face book, the most popular online social network. Wednesday, Blue Fang Games LLC in Waltham and Boston publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt reveals the version of Face book is one of the oldest computer games still on the market: the Oregon Trail. February 9, the two companies will release a classic game of geography in the world is Carmen Sandiego? Face book. Through the joint venture, Houghton Mifflin will try to revive an aging pair of video game franchises, while Blue Fang striving to become a major player in the