By Ary Kenyach Facebook bought Instagram for $1 billion, here is a look how they got from there to here. (click to enlarge) Courtesy Visual.ly … [Read more...]
Social Media Demographics
By: RH If you are using social media as another outlet to reach out to customers or find new ones, this look at the demographic make up of each social network may come in handy. If you are looking to reach women you would be smart to put some effort into Pinterest where 82 % of the users are ladies. Google + on the other hand is mostly populated by tech focused men. Men are around 71% of the users on Google … [Read more...]
What happens every 60 seconds in Social Media
By: RH There is a lot going on in Social Media every minute of every hour. There are on average 175,000 new Tweets every 60 seconds on Twitter. This data is courtesy of a new infographic from marketing consultancy firm Social Jumpstart, which takes a closer look at what happens in social media every 60 seconds. … [Read more...]
Facebook is the “Internet”
By: RH That was a reply I got when brokering a domain to a Fortune 1000 company. I was out with some people at a company get together and met the person in charge of marketing for a Fortune 1000 company. We were discussing domains for awhile, he mentioned he made the decisions for the company when it came to domain acquisition. I told him that I had a domain that I was brokering and felt it matched the … [Read more...]
Facebook introduces the subscribe button for websites
Facebook announced today on their developer blog that websites can now add the subscribe button. How It Works The Subscribe button for websites works just like the button on Facebook; once clicked the user will begin seeing the public posts of the person they have subscribed to in his or her News Feed. The subscribe action is also shared -- allowing others to subscribe directly via the News Feed stories, … [Read more...]
Facebook regs FBpac.org and FBpac.us but they don’t own the .com or the .net
Facebook registered the domains FBpac.org and FBpac.us on 9/24, but the Washington Farm Burea owns the .com and .net. This is certainly an odd couple of registrations. … [Read more...]
WordPress.com adds a follow button
Last week Facebook added the "Subscribe" button and feature to their social offering. There is talk there will be more buttons to come. Read,Listened,Watched and Want according to a source are next. Wordpress.com has unveiled the "Follow " button. It will be at the bottom of all wordpress.com blogs in an effort to increase traffic for Wordpress.com bloggers. Full story can be read … [Read more...]
Lamebook.com keeps name and site
Parody site Lamebook and social networking giant Facebook have ended their legal battle with an agreement calling for Lamebook to retain its name but add a disclaimer to its site. "We are pleased to arrive at an agreement that protects Facebook's brand and trademark and allows for Lamebook's continued operation," the companies said in a joint statement. "The parties are now satisfied … [Read more...]
Fortune magazine: With Hangout, Google shows it can one-up Facebook
Today Facebook announced it will be hooking with Skype and offering video chat. This comes on the heels of the new Google Plus, which has a feature called "Hangout." I just got into playing around with Google Plus, (thanks for the invite Mike Robertson, one of the best guys in domaining) The hangout video feature looks cool. I need to have some friends get invited to Google plus to … [Read more...]
