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Controversy Swarms Around Facebook Graph Search
In January, Facebook launched a new service: Graph Search. Initially only available to a limited number of users, Graph Search makes it possible to search Facebook for users who share a particular set of characteristics. For example, it would be possible to find people in a particular location who have “liked” a page on foreign [...]
Five Reasons Why Facebook May Go the Same Way as MySpace
Facebook is an enormous company, and its success has made it a household name, even turned into a movie. Although large, they’re not exempt from failure; a quick look at the past will show that even a monolithic company may one day find itself at the bottom of the barrel. We’ve taken a quick look [...]
The “Facebook Effect” drives online purchasing for major online brands. You Too?
A recent Forrester Research report concludes that 96 out of the 100 top advertisers currently use Facebook to promote their business or their clients’ business. Roughly 66% of US online adults visit Facebook on a monthly basis, with an unknown quantity then accessing company websites on professional hosting packages via posted content or directly from [...]
Is Forbes right? Will Google Plus remain a niche community?
‘Simply put, Google Plus is a niche community, and it feels like it’s always going to remain that way.” ~ Paul Tassi, Forbes Magazine. Well, the knives are out for the Google Plus as it plugs away at Facebook’s social networking lead. In recent weeks the tech behemoth has revamped it’s fledgling “+”, quite unexpectedly, [...]
Will the coming Smartphone revolution kill the Zynga & Facebook Tango?
It seems both consumers and businesses are becoming increasingly dependent on Facebook these days to stay social and boost sales respectively. WestHost has joined this growing trend using Facebook to provide updates and special offers. Just about any new site development may entail building custom tabs and iframes for a Facebook business page that sucks [...]
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