Facebook is a driving force in many areas – social media, advertising and memberships to name a few – but retailing does not appear to be a success for the social media giant. This came as quite a surprise to many large online retailers who jumped on the opportunity to set up shop only to [...]
Mobile advertising is Mark Zuckerberg’s secret weapon. Very nice info with Facebook IPO coming soon… According to Mobile Squared, the Social Network will earn 1.2 billion dollars from mobile advertising during the first year only. And these revenues will come only from 6 markets : US, UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain. “Across the 6 [...]
Written on 21 Feb 2012 by Vincent AbryFacebook is going to verify accounts for celebrities and people who have many followers. “Facebook, a service built on real names and real identities, will tomorrow start allowing prominent public figures to verify their accounts and then opt to display a preferred nickname instead of their birth name. Those with verified accounts will gain more [...]
Written on 16 Feb 2012 by Vincent AbryFacebook new profile presentation known as Timeline is a big Fail according to a survey made by Sodahead (1327 votes). 70% of users don’t like the design, and 20% like it. These are pretty bad news because Facebook filed for IPO recently. What will happen if users are starting to deactivate or delete their account [...]
Written on 08 Feb 2012 by Vincent AbryHow is an average day on Facebook ? Here are some statistics on age, friends and engagement : [via]
Written on 05 Feb 2012 by Vincent AbryYesterday in a blog post about Facebook’s IPO, we briefly mentioned the story of a graffiti artist who was chosen to do some murals on the initial headquarters that Facebook used. Today, we want to go a little more into depth about it because it truly is an amazing story of an artist – even [...]
Facebook – as predicted – filed for its IPO yesterday. In doing so, the public has gained a lot of information not only on how much money Facebook makes per year, but how they generate the revenue. According to the reports filed by Zuckerberg and company, Facebook generated $3.71 billion in revenue last year. After [...]
Facebook is preparing to offer stock in an effort to raise $10 Billion with its Initial Public Offering (IPO). The company expects to value itself at $75-100 billion which would justify its expectations of raising $10 billion. The papers are currently being prepared and are expected to be filed by Facebook at some point in [...]
Cathy Matthews and her group on video game Frontierville (Zynga) just broke the world record of most comments on Facebook with a minimum of people. “If you’ve ever played Frontierville before, you know: it takes a certain sort of person and it takes a lot of time. Cathy Matthews has spent hours harvesting digital crops and [...]
Written on 30 Jan 2012 by Vincent AbryToo much time on Facebook would lead to depression and low self-esteem… Watching our friends in happy times of their lives (vacations, with a nice girl, dining with Obama^^,…) would make us sad and depressed. “According to a new study conducted by sociologists Hui-Tzu Grace Chou and Nicholas Edge at Utah Valley University, research showed [...]
Written on 25 Jan 2012 by Vincent AbryFacebook just made an update on its blog about the profile : Timeline will be mandatory for everybody in the next coming weeks. Hate it or Love it, you will have it. “In the next few weeks, everyone will get timeline. We know adjustments can be difficult, especially with something as personal as Facebook. Since [...]
Written on 24 Jan 2012 by Vincent AbryFacebook Like button won’t be alone anymore. The Social Network will soon launch different buttons like Watch, Listen, Play, Cook, Read… Developers will also have the ability to create their own buttons like OMG, LOL, CUTE, LOVE, WTF, etc. Website wetpaint.com is a good example as the site is proposing these kinds of buttons in partnership [...]
Written on 20 Jan 2012 by Vincent AbrySocialMedia Live is a new website that presents top rankings for Facebook Pages : world most popular and fast growing pages. Rankings are multi-criterion (category, 30 in total ; by gender) and can be visualized by last hour/6 hours/24 hours/total likes. You have 2 main lists : world leading facebook pages and fastest rising pages. [...]
Written on 16 Jan 2012 by Vincent AbryFacebook IPO will occur probably between april and may 2012. This will be the biggest IPO in tech/internet industry (10 billion dollars) : 6 times more than Google in 2004 (1.67 billion). Only 3 other US companies had 10billion+ IPOs : AT&T 10.6 billion (2000), General Motors 18,1 billion (2008) and Visa 19,7 billion (2010). [...]
Written on 12 Jan 2012 by Vincent AbryFacebook just started to roll out ads in news feed. And it’s written “Featured” instead of “Sponsored” as initially planned. Facebook says it’s because the term “Sponsored” is already used for advertising in right sidebar. Besides as you can see, the word is not above the ad but below, on the right : Facebook says [...]
Written on 11 Jan 2012 by Vincent AbryHaaah Facebook and its numerous changes through years… Sometimes we like, sometimes HMMM not really. Hello Timeline ?? We can’t wait to see what Mister Zuck is going to bring us for 2012… [via]
Written on 01 Jan 2012 by Vincent AbrySome people already love the new Facebook Timeline but some others hate it. Ok now let’s compare Timeline with the Old Profile, using eyetracking software Eyetrackshop. Green zones are the less visible on the page whereas red zones are the most seen areas on the heat map. “Facebook Timeline cover photos get noticed first. Facebook [...]
Written on 29 Dec 2011 by Vincent AbryFor the Facebook lovers and the ones who love each update of their profile (in Timeline style…), here is a perfect concept for you. The FBed is a bed with the shape of a letter “F” and with a computer workstation at the head of the bed. This is a creative concept by croatian designer [...]
Written on 29 Dec 2011 by Vincent AbryLot of people are asking if it is possible to remove / disable the New Facebook Timeline. NO you cannot. Once you activated it you have 7 days to review all your infos and check which ones you want to keep or hide from your profile. But that’s it. As for every facebook profile update, [...]
Written on 20 Dec 2011 by Vincent AbryHave you ever wondered what makes a Facebook user to add or remove friends ? No, yes ? Here is the answer. The average facebook user has 130 friends. Among the reasons that led him to add friends, here’s are the most important ones : 1. He knows the person in real life (82% of [...]
Written on 19 Dec 2011 by Vincent Abry