Archive for april, 2010

As an early adopter brand, Starbucks has reaped the rewards of social media innovation. Today the company is furthering those efforts with a Facebook application for customers to access and manage their Starbucks cards.
The application will go live around 1:50 p.m. PDT today and will be accessible via Starbucks’ Facebook Page. Essentially the application provides a… »

Buried in Facebook’s many announcements and changes at its f8 developer conference last week was a couple slight modifications to its mobile documentation. The company added support for an open standard that allows secure data-sharing, called OAuth, and it changed some phrasing around the iPhone SDK.
OAuth, or Open Authorization, lets users share private information like… »

Since early on Facebook has provided performance advertisers with two options: cost per thousand impressions (CPM) or cost per click (CPC) advertising campaigns. While those two options will continue to be available, Facebook is making a significant change: reducing the number of clicks received by CPM advertisers. In other words they will decrease… »

Musical artists are now brands. Declining physical album sales have pushed artists and their teams to think more holistically. Smart musicians are moving away from making a quick buck off of piece-meal Mp3 sales, instead looking to foster institutional allegiance from their fans, facilitating the sales of higher-priced items like concert tickets, apparel, keepsake-laden box… »

Now that Tweetie 2 is set to become the free and official Twitter app for iPhone, iPhone app makers have been forced to step up their game.
HootSuite — maker of business-friendly Twitter apps — is doing just that, adding language translation, Facebook integration and geolocation support to its iPhone apps.
The upgrade applies to both… »

One of the most interesting speakers that took the stage at The Next Web conference held in Amsterdam this week was Robert Cailliau, a Belgian computer scientist who, together with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, developed the World Wide Web now almost 20 years ago.
After his talk, I had an interesting conversation with the man, which I… »

This week’s list of emerging Facebook apps still under a million monthly users is led off by Battle Punks, a game that’s unusual for its 3D graphics. But we’ll save talking about the games for our sister blog Inside Social Games. There’s actually a far more interesting app beneath Punks: f8… »

You open the cap and cherry scent wafts into your nostrils. Just as you start to pour the beverage into your mouth you stop and wonder to yourself, “What on earth is Facebook water supposed to taste like?” Perhaps the sweat of 450 million people? No, that would be gross. How… »

A school principal in New Jersey recently sent a letter to parents asking them to completely remove their children from any social networking sites and to keep close tabs on their text messaging habits.  Anthony Orsini, the principal of Benjamin Franklin Middle School in Ridgewood, sent a long email to parents indicating that kids… »

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