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Mark Zuckerberg made some important announcements affecting marketers at the f8 event yesterday, in particular TIMELINE, Facebook’s new ‘history of your life’ feed solution to the problem of a user’s social activity being lost to the bottom of the feed. Another major update included ‘Verbs’, contextual actions to the Like button such as Cooked, Watched, [...]
I recently came across a pretty nifty widget that illustrates the exponential growth of the “social web”. Similar to the famed National Debt Clock, although the chart doesn’t pull in “real-time” data, the information it dynamically presents is based on a number of key social web data points from a number of sources, i.e.: 20 [...]
Anyone who has developed Facebook apps, or any kind of Facebook integration, knows that Facebook development can be a less than pleasant experience. How often does an API need a live status? Even though we all know the way Facebook has opened up their platform has been revolutionary, an already amazing source of revenue and [...]