Americans are not the only people falling in love with social networking. In the UK, Facebook has taken control of Microsoft’s 2nd place position of the most popular websites visited, reports MSNBC. Even more surprising is the age group many of these visitors fall under. Facebook attracted a record 26.8 million visitors in Britain in […]
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When most people think about trying to find a job that interests them, they don’t usually look toward computer games for inspiration. However, the Marriott Hotel has a different idea. According to The Washington Post, they have created a Facebook game that allows players to perform different jobs inside the hotel. The first version of
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If you’ve ever been sucked into Facebook games like FarmVille or Zynga Poker and wasted hundreds of hours of your life in the blink of an eye, you might not be surprised to learn that Zynga, the company behind the games is one of the hottest topics in Silicon Valley. Vanity Fair has up a
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Just looking at the stacks of gift cards for sale at many stores will tell you that there is a card for everything. This includes Facebook. According to The Vancouver Sun, this is the beginning of a new style of ecommerce. These are the early days of the virtual goods economy (you’re probably already taking
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Facebook survived the Hollywood takedown of 2010, and Mark Zuckerberg emerged as Time’s Person of the Year. Is it too good to be true? According to Inc.com, Facebook might be primed to stumble–or at least stub a toe–sometime soon. Its size and ubiquity have drawn scrutiny and criticism from users worried about its blasé attitude
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PC Magazine reports that businesses thinking of including “face” in their name might want to reconsider. Facebook this week was granted a notice of allowance to trademark the word “face.” Facebook now has six months to file a statement of use (SOU), which is a sworn statement signed by Facebook attesting to use of the
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Social media may get all the ink, but it is not getting most of the dollars — at least not from small businesses, says a new report. Inc.com reports the majority of small companies will plow most of their marketing funds into traditional websites and e-mail, says a report by online survey firm Zoomerang and
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Mashable reports that Facebook Chief Operations Officer Sheryl Sandberg made a “surprise” appearance at Pal’s Innovate Developer Conference to announce its new integration with PayPal. During her short speech, she dropped a few interesting tidbits of information related to Facebook’s growth. The first interesting stat surrounded social games. According to Sandberg, more people play games
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Fast Company reports that Facebook will enable more people to start and run their own businesses, according to a new study from Sweden’s Uppsala University. It will also change the ways people work. A realistic effect of social media is that many costs of running operations will decline in the long run,” said HÃ¥kan Selg,
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Has the novelty of poking, status updates and photo tagging worn off for teens and their notoriously short attention spans? Mashable reports that a survey conducted by online gaming site Roiworld found that teenagers are showing signs of “Facebook Fatigue.” Teens still spend an impressive 80 percent of their internet time on social networking sites,
