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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Collectors Stunned As Facebook Switches Gears On Issuing Paper Stock Certificates
The hopes of collectors who sought to own one share of Facebook stock from its initial public offering last week were dashed, as paper stock certificates will not be made available, after all. CNNMoney reported that Computershare, which handles shareholder records for the social network, alerted GiveAShare.com and OneShare late last week that there would be no paper stock certificates. The two companies planned to offer single Facebook shares as collectibles, for $39... read more>>
Dachis Group's Employee Insight Measures Facebook, Other Social Efforts By Employees
In what almost seems like a version of Klout for employees of a brand, with a host of other robust features, social software provider Dachis Group rolled out Employee Insight, a software-as-a-service application that measures the social media contributions of employees. Employee Insight, aimed at tapping into one of brands' most valuable resources - employees -- also enables management of employee advocacy programs. The app monitors and measures daily interactions between 30,000 brands... read more>>
Video Chat Provider OoVoo Launches 12-Way App For Facebook
Video chat provider OoVoo announced a spate of new features, including a 12-way free video chat application for Facebook. OoVoo, which claims 46 million worldwide users, also launched 12-way video chat capability for Apple's iPad tablet, as well as updated apps for desktops and the iPhone and Android platforms. New features include: The ability to connect with friends both Facebook and non-Facebook for 12-way free video chats. 12-way video chat hosting on the iPad... read more>>
RocketFrog Hops Into Facebook Gaming Pond With Advertiser-Sponsored Prizes
While gambling is illegal on Facebook, users who want to play casino games with more at stake than their name on a leader board may find themselves hopping over to RocketFrog. Free-to-play Facebook casino RocketFrog offers daily poker, blackjack, and slot tournaments with fields of 30 to 100 players and quick play (two to five minutes), and its advertisers provide prizes for the winners, such as movie tickets, music, and food. Players can... read more>>
Announcing Our Social Curation Summit -- Coming To NYC July 31
We're excited to announce the launch of our new conference, Social Curation Summit! Join us in New York July 31 for the first-ever full-day conference exploring the business of social content curation and visual communities. We're offering a special early bird rate of only $199 when you register by Thursday, June 7. As the popularity of Pinterest, Tumblr, Fancy, and other contributed content sites continues to grow, now is the time for... read more>>
Facebook Marketing Firm GroSocial Closes $1M Funding Round
Facebook marketing outfit GroSocial announced the close of a $1 million series-A funding round, led by Kickstart Seed Fund, with contributions from Monarch Partners, Rock & Hammer Ventures, and other angel investors. GroSocial said it will use the new funding to double headcount with the goal of adding social marketing campaign automation features and integrations with additional social networking sites to its Customizer platform. Customizer is a drag-and-drop application builder for Facebook that... read more>>
Microsoft Quietly Launches Potential Facebook Competitor So.cl
On the heels of the highly anticipated Facebook initial public offering, tech biggie Microsoft made a hush-hush entrance into the social networking arena, unleashing its So.cl experiment from beta-testing. The social network, known as So.cl (pronounced "social"), which we began hearing about in December, is currently only available to college students, reported Mashable and CNET. Deemed an "experimental research project," rather than a product (sounds rather mumbo-jumbo, no?), the aim of So.cl is... read more>>
Four Reasons Why Google Doesn't Care If Facebook Wins The Social Media Wars
Facebook is winning the social media wars. But Google isn't worried. According to Chief Executive Officer Larry Page, Google Plus has more than 100 million active users. Facebook, meanwhile, has more than 900 million active monthly users. Google Plus has a little more than 10 percent of Facebook's reach, and its users spend a mere 3.3 minutes per month on the search engine giant's social network, compared with the average Facebook... read more>>
HOW TO: Use The Facebook Pages Manager App
Finally, the prayers of Facebook page administrators have been answered. Facebook released the Pages Manager application for the iPhone to make it easier for page admins to effectively manage their Facebook pages. The Facebook Page app for mobile has always had the ability to manage Facebook pages, but not with the same features, and often with numerous bugs when it came to properly posting content. Pages Manager has a similar look and... read more>>
Facebook Quietly Rolls Out Pages Manager For IPhone, Tweaks App's News Feed
Facebook has been quietly rolling out updates to its iPhone application, releasing its new Pages Manager iPhone app for page administrators in the U.S. with no announcement, and tweaking the news feed in the iPhone app to look more like timeline. Pages Manager, which debuted in New Zealand last week, allows page administrators to manage their pages via the Apple mobile devices, functioning just like the Facebook app for users, but adding... read more>>
WARNING: Malware Poses As Facebook Account-Cancellation Email
Internet security firm Sophos warned of malware disguised as an email from Facebook telling recipients the social network received requests from them to cancel their accounts. Sophos outlined the malware scam in a post on its Naked Security blog. Potential victims receive emails, supposedly from Facebook, which read: Hi [email address] We are sending you this email to inform you that we have received an account cancellation request from you. Please follow the link below... read more>>
No Over-The-Top Wedding For Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Bride Priscilla Chan
There's a little of thrifty Warren Buffet in Facebook Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg. The billion-dollar wedding industry got no dimes, and barely even a nickel, from billionaire Zuckerberg and his new bride, Priscilla Chan. Bucking a national trend of lavish, over-the-top nuptials, Zuckerberg and longtime girlfriend Chan got hitched in their Palo Alto, Calif., backyard to little fanfare Saturday. They avoided any and all stress related to wedding invitations --... read more>>
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