Posts Tagged ‘facebook’

Well well well, if this isn’t a prompt response to the new features on Google+: at the developer conference F8, the founder and CEO of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg introduced some dramatic changes to the largest social network. Facebook will be developing the profiles, or the core of Facebook, into Timelines. The Timeline will allow users to tell the story of their lives on a page. In addition, the team introduced a ticker that shows news in real-time. Read the rest of this entry »

The test phase that began in just three months ago has finally come to an end. Google+ has officially been made available for all, and with its release, there are also a number of new features that Google has integrated with its other services. Read the rest of this entry »

So we all know that Facebook’s strongpoint hasn’t exactly been the way that it handles data. And since Zuckerberg’s big announcement last week about the new Timeline project, which is supposed to be a collective “story of your life” available for others to see online, has made data protection agencies a bit anxious – just how does Facebook plan on ‘collecting’ all of the information needed to create a Timeline for its 800 million users? The answer can be a bit disturbing to some: it already has it. Read the rest of this entry »

Google+ is making waves in the social media domain. After the site officially went public last week, traffic increased 1269%, according to new data from Experian Hitwise. Google+’s ranking thereby went from 54th to 8th within one week in Hitwise’s Social Networking and Forums category. The new success should cause for some unrest amongst the competitors at Facebook, which conveniently released a number of new features last week, many of which have been criticized as ‘copying’ Google+. Nevertheless, Google+ is proving itself to be a serious threat to other social networks out there. Read the rest of this entry »

Just one day after announcing the improved friends lists, Facebook employee Zach Rait introduced the new “subscribe” button in a blog post. The new function reminds users a bit of Twitter, als the following option, or subscribe option, allows users to subscribe to posts from others with whom they are not even friends with on Facebook. Read the rest of this entry »

Facebook is finally making sure there will be more transparency and differentiated identities with some new features. Mark Zuckerberg’s giant social network is reacting to the growing competition with Google+ and pressure from data protection agencies. Read the rest of this entry »

Social search is being made easier by the online information service dialo.de, allowing users to search through about 4.8 million service providers while all-the-while reviewing their own experience with the according services. The site offers an extensive network of tips, recommendations, and warnings from which all users can profit. Now, the website is offering social ratings directly through users’ Facebook and Twitter accounts. With this, dialo.de offers its users a new and innovative possibility for the circulation of personal tips, recommendations, and experiences from everyday life. Read the rest of this entry »

Looks like the daily-deal market is losing significance to some of the major players in the market: shortly after Facebook’s announcement to suspend their daily-deal program, the rating community Yelp is following suit. Well, not quite as extreme, but 50% of the workforce has been cut back. Yelp said that it is going to be focusing on “good” deals instead of having no choice but to offer those with an “inherently declining quality.” Read the rest of this entry »

The social network Facebook has been given a facelift in the past week: Almost one year after its release, Facebook announced early last week that its location-based service Facebook Places would be killed off. Later in the week, the network also announced that its online-coupon market, Deals, would also be killed off. But this doesn’t completely mean that Facebook is leaving the location-based market. The social network added that its check-in deal service will still be offered, albeit a bit different than previously. Read the rest of this entry »

Lary Page can be excited about the positive reception of the Google+ project and a record turnover for the second quarter of the year. Meanwhile, Facebook has received a poor grade in the subject of user satisfaction from a study.
The social media market is ready for a new player, according to the census administered by the 2011 American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) E-Business Report, which was conducted with the market research institute ForeSee Results. The social network Facebook received the poorest grade of all the social networks that were analyzed in customer satisfaction. The winner in the category for social media was Wikipedia. But who could have been in first place in the portal and search engine sectors? That’s right: Google. Because the study was conducted last month, Google+ is not included in the study, as the project wasn’t launched until afterwards. But according to a press release by ForeSee, the low results that Facebook has received give Google+ a good start, that is, if the service can offer users something better. Read the rest of this entry »