Facebook voicemail
Facebook announces a spiffy new feature available in Canada. Through Facebook Messages, you can send voicemail to your Facebook friends.
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Facebook helps FBI bust botnet crime ring
Facebook became involved in the fight after botnets also targeted the social network.
According to an announcement this week, the FBI arrested 10 people associated with the a crime ring pushing the malware Yahos. The malware has affected over 11 million people. Facebook’s security team helped the FBI by identifying both the criminals and the victims.
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Nielsen releases 2012 Social Media Report
85.5 million people access social networks via a smartphone or tablet app.
People are accessing the web more frequently and for longer periods, using smartphones, tablets, gaming consoles, and smart TVs both in the U.S. and globally. We’re still using PCs as well, but personal computer usage of social media is just about the only category that’s down: 4 percent fewer Americans connected to the Internet via a PC in 2012, while 82 percent more connected via the mobile web and 85 percent more connected via a mobile app.
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Apple, Google, Amazon, And Facebook have declared World War 3
Rich beyond belief.
Apple, Google, Amazon, and Facebook are at each others throats. So this has become an epic story of warring factions in a strange and changing landscape, a tale of incursions and sieges, of plots and betrayals, of battlefield brilliance and of cunning with coin.
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Twenty-seven significant social media statistics and facts for 2012
350 million plus users suffer from “Facebook addiction syndrome”
The social media landscape has been evolving at a rapid pace over the last few years. It has also become more fun with the addition of Instagram and Pinterest. (Infographic)
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Social media in the workplace – Is anyone actually working?
Everyone spends their time discussing the work they should be doing rather than actually doing it.
It seems like almost everyone is social today. Every minute, Twitter users average 100,000 tweets, Facebook users post 684,478 pieces of content, Tumblr blog owners publish 27,778 new posts and Flickr users add 3,125 new photos. Facebook and Twitter are great tools for connecting and communicating with people in our social lives, or for brands communicating with customers, the real value of pure-play social tools as standalone applications within a business has yet to be proven.
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Up Close Social Shower Curtain
Surprise! I’m in the shower but still a social menace.
If you’re the kind of person who’s always on Facebook, what could possibly be funnier than a shower curtain that looks like a Facebook Page? A lot of things! But still, this Facebook shower curtain even has a little window for you to pose as your profile pic. What better way to celebrate your addiction? It’ll be hilarious to all those people who are in your bathroom with you while you shower! Or the person who asks to awkwardly photograph you in the shower so you can post it to Facebook. It’s an antiquated profile design, but that’s part of the joke, right? Right?!
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The 25 Worst Passwords of 2012
If any of your passwords are on this list, then shame on you — and go change them now. Bad dog! Continue reading… “The 25 Worst Passwords of 2012”
The ‘Facebook Class’ that built apps, and fortunes
Stanford students ended up getting millions of users for free apps that they designed to run on Facebook.
Some Stanford student’s in 2007 were given a homework assignment to devise an app. Get people to use it. Repeat. It became known here as the “Facebook Class.”
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Facebook’s silent majority holds the key to the company’s future
If Facebook can persuade that silent majority to become more engaged in the site its future looks pretty bright.
Facebook is a pretty divisive company. One group took to the the social network, sharing their lives in updates and shifting a good portion of their social interactions onto Facebook’s sprawling social graph. The other group took the opposite direction, avoiding the site entirely, or canceling their accounts, or griping as they came to endure Facebook as a necessary evil of being online.
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Alcohol brands see increase in engagement on Facebook
Marketers raise awareness and start dialogues with fans on social media
Alcohol brands are naturally social companies, with marketing aimed at encouraging friends to spend time together. In keeping with this sociability, many companies are turning to Facebook to raise brand awareness and build community with fans.
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Criticism against Instagram and what it says about the future of media
Most criticism toward Instagram borders on hatred.
Instagram is a simple service that lets people share their photos with others from a mobile device. They get a lot of criticism, bordering on hate. And it’s not just because the tiny startup is being acquired by Facebook recently for $1 billion, which will make all of its employees exceedingly rich — it’s because some people seem to believe that the ease with which amateur photographers can post photos to the service, and the filters Instagram provides in order to add special effects to them, are ruining photography. This isn’t really that surprising: it’s the same kind of criticism that has been made about blogging, citizen journalism and Twitter, among other things — and in each case the critics have been somewhat right, but mostly wrong.
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