Goodbye Facebook Notifications
According to the Facebook Developer blog, application notifications within Facebook will come to an end tomorrow (March 1, 2010). For those who encountered massive amounts of notifications from their friends each time they signed into Facebook, this is probably good news. Yeah, no more FarmVille notifications! But you’ve probably already figured out how to hide those . For those who do utilize Facebook apps, the results are probably mixed. Why is Facebook killing app notifications? to simplify Facebook & streamline communication. Part of this effort to simplify communication is the...
Read MoreMove over guys, the ladies are gamers [STUDY]
According to a recent study by PopCap Games, the average social gamer (games played on social networking platforms) is a 43-year old woman. Majority of social gamers are in fact women (55%) and they play often with 38% of women said they play social games multiple times a day. But don’t worry guys, the women haven’t infiltrated game play within console games like Xbox and Playstation. Facebook is the most popular place for online games (not surprising). The average social gamer has played at least 6 social games and over half of gamers started playing a game because a friend...
Read MoreFacebook: Relationships and Happiness [STUDY]
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the Facebook Data team released information on relationships and happiness. The use of positive and negative words were examined in the status updates of Facebook users over the course of one week in January. According to the Facebook Data team, no one at Facebook actually reads the status updates in the process of doing this research and they utilize computers to count words and remove personally identifiable info. I had no idea Facebook did this kind of research. Overall, the data is not that surprising: people who are in a relationship or married...
Read More6 Reasons I’m Digging Foursquare
I’ve been using foursquare since October and for the first couple of weeks I didn’t really find it that interesting. However, after using if for the past 5 months, I’m addicted and I’m now a checking-in fool. For those that don’t know, foursquare is a location-based social networking website where users “check-in” at venues they visit. Jeff Hilimire just blogged about the reasons he’s down on foursquare and why he’s already tired of it. After reading his blog, I decided to put together a counter-blog of the reasons why I’m digging...
Read MoreHalf of top online retailers have no meaningful Facebook presence [STUDY]
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According to a study by ForeSee Results, only 25% of the top 100 online retailers have a Facebook page and another 25% have less than 10,000 fans. These statistics are shocking, especially since the recent news that Facebook now has grown to over 400 million users. Where else do you have the opportunity to engage millions of potential customers? In a related study, Razorfish surveyed visitors to some of the biggest US retail websites and found that majority of shoppers “friend,” “follow” or “subscribe” to a retailer on a social networking site like...
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